Tropical forest structure and composition on a large-scale altitudinal gradient in Costa Rica

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-152

  Lieberman, Diana ^a,c   Lieberman, Milton ^a,c   Peralta, Rodolfo ^b,d   Hartshorn, Gary S ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b Tropical Science Centre   (Costa Rica)

^c SA ^*  (Costa Rica)

^d PORTICO SA   (Costa Rica)

^e Organization for Tropical Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitudinal variation; Diversity; La Selva; Life zones; Niche breadth; Ordination; Tropical rainforests; Volcan Barva

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT; FOREST STRUCTURE;

COSTA RICA, VOLCAN BARVA;

ARDISIA PALMANA;

EID: 0029769237     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2261350     Document Type: Article

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