Comparative ecology of 11 sympatric species of Macaranga in Borneo: Tree distribution in relation to horizontal and vertical resource heterogeneity

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 662-673

  Davies, Stuart James ^a,e   Palmiotto, Peter A ^b   Ashton, Peter S ^a   Lee, Hua Seng ^c   Lafrankie, James V ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c Research Section   (Malaysia)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Microenvironment; Rain forest; Shade tolerance; Species coexistence; Tree allometry; Tree spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

BORNEO; DISTRIBUTION; MALAYSIA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MICROHABITAT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

MALAYSIA;

MACARANGA;

EID: 0031824499     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00299.x     Document Type: Article

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