Composition and Diversity of Northwestern Amazonian Rainforests in a Geoecological Context

Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A look into the past

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 360-372

  Duivenvoorden, Joost F ^a   Duque, Alvaro J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Composition and diversity of northwestern Amazonian rainforests in geoecological context; Macroscale separating spatial from soil effects at wide regional scales; Mesoscale abiotic heterogeneity in spatial configuration of land units; Mesoscale abiotic heterogeneity and spatial configuration of land units; Northwestern Amazonia modelling Amazonian biodiversity in geoecological context; Northwestern Amazonia and mesoscale and macroscale equivalents; Northwestern Amazonia physiography and plant diversity and composition patterns; Northwestern Amazonian landscape representative landscape units characterizing Amazonia; Patterns in plant diversity and composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886131919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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