Abundance, growth and mortality of very large trees in neotropical lowland rain forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 80, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 235-244

  Clark, David B ^a,b   Clark, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b La Selva Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Emergent; Tropical tree demography

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GROWTH; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; TREE SIZE;

COSTA RICA, LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION;

EID: 0029668091     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1127(95)03607-5     Document Type: Article

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