Recruitment rates in forest plots: Gf estimates using growth rates and size distributions

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 633-639

  Kohyama, Takashi ^a   Takada, Takenori ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demography; Model population; Rain forests; Recruitment rate; Size structure; Transition rate; Tree population

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; FOREST; PLANT GROWTH; RECRUITMENT;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; RECRUITMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

EID: 0031853325     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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