Local neighborhood effects on long-term survival of individual trees in a neotropical forest

Ecological Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 859-875

  Hubbell, Stephen P ^a,b   Ahumada, Jorge A ^a   Condit, Richard ^b   Foster, Robin B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autologistic regression; Barro colorado Island; Panama; Survival; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013053632     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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