Fine-scale spatial pattern analysis of the herb layer of woodland vegetation using information theory

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-288

  Campetella, Giandiego ^a   Canullo, Roberto ^a   Bartha, Sándor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Association; Central Apennine; Compositional diversity; Monitoring; Multi species patterns; Quer is cerris community; Randomisation tests; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008843402     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263509909381559     Document Type: Article

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