Tropical tree communities: A test of the nonequilibrium hypothesis

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 561-567

  Terborgh, John ^a   Foster, Robin B ^b,c   Percy Nunez V ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d Univ Nac S Antonio Abad de Cusco   (Peru)

Author keywords

Amazon; Community ecology; Meander belt; Nonequilibrium hypothesis; Per ; Primary succession; Tropical forests; Tropical tree communities

Indexed keywords

CHANNA MELASOMA; NEOPLEA;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; HUBBELL'S NONEQUILIBRIUM MODEL; NONEQUILIBRIUM HYPOTHESIS; SUCCESSION; TROPICS;

PERU, MANU RIVER BASIN;

EID: 0030389935     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265630     Document Type: Article

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