Woody plant assemblages in isolated forest patches in a semiarid agricultural matrix

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2519-2535

  Berhane, Asmelash ^a,b   Totland, Ørjan ^a   Moe, Stein R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia forest; Fragmentation; Growth stage; Isolation; Remnant forest patches

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCH SIZE; PATCHINESS; SEMIARID REGION; WOODY PLANT;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84884410933     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0534-0     Document Type: Article

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