Using tree functional diversity to evaluate management impacts in a subtropical forest

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Maeshiro, R ^a   Kusumoto, B ^a   Fujii, S ^a   Shiono, T ^a   Kubota, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Ecosystem functioning; Forest management; Functional composition; Functional divergence; Functional evenness; Functional richness; Plantation; Secondary forest; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900437931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00125.1     Document Type: Article

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