Mortality rates of 205 neotropical tree and shrub species and the impact of a severe drought

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 419-439

  Condit, Richard ^a,b   Hubbell, Stephen P ^a,b,c   Foster, Robin B ^a,b,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Princeton University ^*  (Panama)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Drought; El ni o; Forest; Mortality; Neotropics; Trees; Tropical

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; MORTALITY; TREE MORTALITY; TROPICAL MOIST FOREST;

PANAMA, BARRO COLORADO ISLAND;

EID: 0028994850     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2963497     Document Type: Article

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