Ecological implications of changes in drought patterns: Shifts in forest composition in Panama

Climatic Change

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 413-427

  Condit, Richard ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL FOREST;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA;

EID: 0031826341     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005395806800     Document Type: Article

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