Resource availability and growth responses to defoliation in seedlings of three early-successional, tropical, woody species

Ecological Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-324

  Lim, W H L ^a   Turner, I M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

defoliation; plant defenses; resource availability hypothesis; Singapore

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; GROWTH; HERBIVORY; PLANT DEFENCE; RESOURCE-AVAILABILITY HYPOTHESIS; SOIL FERTILITY;

SINGAPORE;

DILLENIA SUFFRUTICOSA; DILLENIACEAE; EUPHORBIACEAE; MACARANAGA HEYNEI; TREMA TOMENTOSA; ULMACEAE;

EID: 0030301352     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02347789     Document Type: Article

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