Effects of fine-scale surface heterogeneity on rock outcrop plant community structure

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 50-59

  do Carmo, Flávio Fonseca ^a,b   de Campos, Iara Christina ^a,b   Jacobi, Claudia Maria ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Pristino   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Canga; Endemism; Epilithic vegetation; Microtopography; Plant functional groups; Plant topography interactions; Roughness index; Variogram method

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDEMISM; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRANITOID; HETEROGENEITY; IRONSTONE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; OUTCROP; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUARTZITE; ROUGHNESS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VARIOGRAM; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER;

BRAZIL; IRON QUADRANGLE; MINAS GERAIS;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84953354226     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12342     Document Type: Article

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