Habitat preferences of Aporosa in two Malaysian forests: Implications for abundance and coexistence

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2005-2018

  Debski, Igor ^a,b,g   Burslem, David F R P ^a   Palmiotto, Peter A ^c   Lafrankie, James V ^d   Lee, H S ^e   Manokaran, N ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^c BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e Forest Department Sarawak   (Malaysia)

^f FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aporosa; Coexistence; Habitat preference; Malaysia; Niche; Rain forest; Random drift; Ripley's K function; Spatial pattern; Species diversity; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; HABITAT SELECTION; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

MALAYSIA;

APOROSA; APORUSA; EUPHORBIACEAE;

EID: 0013057332     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2005:HPOAIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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