Influence of anthropogenic disturbances on understory plant diversity of urban forests in Wuhan, Central China

• Main Authors: Zhen Li,, Zhuo-Wen Zhang,, Yong-Jian Wang,, Peng-Cheng Wang,, Yong-Rong Xu,, Zhi-Xiang Zhou,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5665/1/01%2520Zhen%2520Li.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5665/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm/

Relationship between understory plant diversity and anthropogenic disturbances in urban forests of Wuhan City, Central China, was analyzed by diversity analysis and detrended canonical correspondence analysis (DCCA). The results showed that understory species diversity was higher in suburban area th...