What Factors Affect Diversity and Species Composition of Endangered Tumbesian Dry Forests in Southern Ecuador?

This paper reports a study on species richness and composition of Tumbesian dry forest communities. We tested two alternative hypotheses about species assemblage processes in tropical dry forests: (1) species assemblage is determined by the filtering effect of environmental conditions and (2) specie...

• מחבר ראשי: Cabrera Cisneros, H. (author)
• מחברים אחרים: Escudero, A. (author), Luzuriaga, A. (author), Espinosa íñiguez, C. (author)
• פורמט: article
• יצא לאור: 2010
• נושאים: Anthropogenic degradation; Community diversity; Environmental constraints; Precipitation; Soil physical-chemical features; Temperature; Tropical dry forest; Vegetation
• גישה מקוונת: http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/19313