Recovery of Vegetation Structure and Species Diversity after Shifting Cultivation in Northwestern Vietnam, with Special Reference to Commercially Valuable Tree Species

Figure 2

The Lorenz curve as applied to size inequalities in plant populations. The horizontal axis is the cumulative percentage of individuals in a stand, summed from the smallest to the largest. The area between the curve and line of absolute equality expressed as a proportion of the area under the diagonal is called the Gini coefficient (G, [41]).