Continuous forest has greater taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic plant diversity than an adjacent naturally fragmented forest

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 323-333

  Munguía Rosas, Miguel A ^a   Jurado Dzib, Selmy G ^a   Mezeta Cob, Candy R ^a   Montiel, Salvador ^a   Rojas, Armando ^a   Pech Canché, Juan M ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

diversity; forest fragmentation; functional diversity; Mexico; phylogenetic diversity; taxonomic diversity; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

FLORA; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TRANSECT; TROPICAL FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FRAGMENTATION; NATURAL BARRIER; VASCULAR PLANT;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84903381104     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467414000194     Document Type: Article

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