Relationships between branch spacing, growth rate and light in tropical forest saplings

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 627-635

  King, D A ^a,d   Leigh Jr , E G ^a   Condit, R ^a   Foster, R B ^a,b   Hubbell, S P ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Internode length; Tropical tree; True architecture

Indexed keywords

BRANCH SPACING; GROWTH RATE; SAPLING; TREE; TROPICAL MOIS FOREST;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA;

EID: 0030783873     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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