Connection between tree functional traits and environmental parameters in an archipelago of montane forests surrounded by rupestrian grasslands

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 238, Issue , 2018, Pages 51-59

  Coelho, Marcel S ^a,b   Carlos, Priscila P ^a   Pinto, Victor D ^a   Meireles, Alline ^a   Negreiros, Daniel ^a   Morellato, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira ^b   Fernandes, G Wilson ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic rain forest; Ecotones; Environmental filters; Espinha o range; Forest natural fragments; Functional traits

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHIPELAGO; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOREGION; ECOTONE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; MONTANE FOREST; RAINFOREST; SOIL FERTILITY; TREE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 85018719205     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2017.04.003     Document Type: Article

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