The responses to shade of seedlings of very small-seeded tree and shrub species from tropical rain forest in Singapore

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 215-221

  Metcalfe, D J ^a,b,c   Grubb, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Rain forest; regeneration niche; seed size; shade tolerance

Indexed keywords

RAINFOREST; REGENERATION NICHE; SEED SIZE; SHADE TOLERANCE;

SINGAPORE;

FICUS CHARTACEA; FICUS GROSSULARIOIDES; MELASTOMA MALABATHRICUM; MELASTOMATACEAE; MORACEAE; PELLACALYX SACCARDIANUS; PTERNANDRA ECHINATA; UROPHYLLUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0030620355     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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