Diversity and plant trait-soil relationships among rock outcrops in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest

Plant and Soil

Volumn 403, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 7-20

  do Carmo, Flávio Fonseca ^a,b   Jacobi, Claudia Maria ^b  

^a Instituto Pristino   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Microtopography; Nurse objects; Nutrient impoverished soils; Parent rock; Plant trait environment relationship; Rare plants; Saxicolous communities

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; HERB; LITHOTYPE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; OUTCROP; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; RARE SPECIES; SHRUB; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BRAZIL; IRON QUADRANGLE; MINAS GERAIS;

EID: 84948132253     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: 15735036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-015-2735-7     Document Type: Article

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