Regional-Scale drivers of forest structure and function in northwestern Amazonia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Higgins, Mark A ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a   Anderson, Christopher B ^a   Martin, Roberta E ^a   Knapp, David E ^a   Tupayachi, Raul ^a   Perez, Eneas ^b   Elespuru, Nydia ^b   Alonso, Alfonso ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIA; ARTICLE; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; PERU; PLANT; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECTROSCOPY; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; SOIL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; PERU; SOIL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84925799663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119887     Document Type: Article

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