Partitioning the variation of woody plant ?-diversity in a landscape of secondary tropical dry forests across spatial scales

Abstract

What is the relative importance of forest successional age, environmental heterogeneity, landscape structure and spatial structure of sampling sites on ?-diversity of tropical dry forests (TDF)? How do the magnitude of ?-diversity and the relative influence of factors, processes and mechanisms driving ?-diversity differ at different spatial grains? What are the effects of stand age on ?-diversity?