Demography of a savanna palm tree: Predictions from comprehensive spatial pattern analyses

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1987-2005

  Barot, Sébastien ^a   Gignoux, Jacques ^a   Menaut, Jean Claude ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Borassus aethiopum; Density dependent mortality; Diggle's nearest neighbor tests; Distance dependent mortality; Intraspecific competition; Population dynamics; Ripley's K function; Root foraging; Seed dispersal; Soil patchiness; Spatial association

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

BORASSUS AETHIOPUM; ISOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0032827190     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1987:DOASPT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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