Plant establishment on flooded and unflooded patches of a freshwater swamp forest in southeastern Brazil

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 793-803

  Scarano, Fábio R ^a   Ribeiro, Kátia T ^a   De Moraes, Luiz F D ^a   De Lima, Haroldo C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Bromeliacea; Clusiaceae; Flooding; Germination; Patchiness; Seed dormancy; Seedling establishment; Tabebuia cassinoides

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FLOODING; RAINFOREST; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SWAMP FOREST; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENT;

BRAZIL;

BIGNONIACEAE; BROMELIACEAE; CALOPHYLLUM BRASILIENSE; CLUSIACEAE; NIDULARIUM PROCERUM; SYMPHONIA GLOBULIFERA; TABEBUIA CASSINOIDES; TOVOMITOPSIS PANICULATA;

EID: 0031416725     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467400011007     Document Type: Article

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