Cover and soil influence at understory of a seasonal tropical forest, Minas Gerais State, Brazil;Influência da cobertura e do solo na composição florística do sub-bosque em uma floresta estacional semidecidual em Viçosa, MG, Brasil

Acta Botanica Brasilica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 473-486

  Meira Neto, João Augusto Alves ^a   Martins, Fernando Roberto ^b   de Souza, Agostinho Lopes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Canonical correspondence analisys; Canopy gap; Light; Phytosociology; Seasonal semidecidual forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007583875     PISSN: 01023306     EISSN: 1677941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-33062005000300007     Document Type: Article

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