Mortality and recruitment rate evaluations in heterogeneous tropical forests

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-100

  Sheil, Douglas ^a   May, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Monitoring; Mortality; Permanent plot; Recruitment; Tropical forest; Turnover

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0029669035     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2261703     Document Type: Article

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