Substrate conditions, foliar nutrients and the distributions of two canopy tree species in a Costa Rican secondary rain forest

Plant and Soil

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 259-267

  Herrera, Bernal ^a,b   Finegan, Bryan ^a  

^a CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Cordia; Foliar nutrients; Spatial heterogeneity; Substrate variation; Tropical forest; Vochysia

Indexed keywords

LEAF NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT; RAINFOREST TREE; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

COSTA RICA;

BORAGINACEAE; CORDIA ALLIODORA; VOCHYSIA FERRUGINEA; VOCHYSIACEAE;

EID: 0030850923     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004209915530     Document Type: Article

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