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Authors: Ali, A.
Affiliations: South China Normal University (CN)
Corresponding author: Ali, Arshad
ORCID: Ali, Arshad
Venue: Ecological Indicators
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2019-03
Volume: 98
Pages: 665-677
ISSN: 1470-160X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.11.017
OpenAlex: W2900494555
Cited by: 296
References: 62
Citations by year: 2026: 55 · 2025: 70 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 7
FWCI: 8.83
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
Locations: Ecological Indicators (publishedVersion)
Funders: Guangdong Provincial Government
South China Normal University
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest ecology and management
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Keywords: forest stand structure, forest functioning, species diversity, aboveground biomass, carbon storage, forest productivity, niche complementarity, plant-plant interactions, light competition, competitive exclusion, agroforests, plantations, tropical forests, temperate forests, boreal forest

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