Species Diversity of Canopy Versus Understory Trees in a Neotropical Forest: Implications for Forest Structure, Function and Monitoring

Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 658-670

  Bohlman, Stephanie A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

crown layers; forest canopy; forest dynamics; forest structure; remote sensing; species diversity; stereophotographs; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939966903     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9854-0     Document Type: Article

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