Does disturbance regime change community assembly of angiosperm plant communities in the boreal forest?

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 188-201

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Mayor, Stephen J ^a   He, Fangliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community assembly; Community phylogenetics; Community structure; Human disturbance; Phylogeny; Taiga

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897456212     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtt068     Document Type: Article

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