Journal article
Recognition of successional pathways in forest communities using size-class ordination
Vegetatio, Vol.48(2), pp.133-140
1982
Abstract
Certain of the problems associated with the use of size-class ordinations to identify successional pathways are explored. Examples of such ordinations, where it was attempted to minimize a number of the interpretational dangers noted by Austin (1977), are presented for two tropical rainforest types from Papua New Guinea. By limiting the analysis to groups of sites which show a high degree of homogeneity, and by using the non-linear ordination method Continuity Analysis (Noy-Meir 1974) a simple successional interpretation of the species-in-size-class data was possible. As heterogeneity increases so does the number of possible interpretations of the resultant size-class-in-space pattern.
Details
- Title
- Recognition of successional pathways in forest communities using size-class ordination
- Authors/Creators
- N.J. Enright (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Vegetatio, Vol.48(2), pp.133-140
- Publisher
- Dr W. Junk Publishers
- Identifiers
- 991005541577907891
- Copyright
- © 1982 Dr W. Junk Publishers.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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