Light gradient partitioning among tropical tree species through differential seedling mortality and growth

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 187-201

  Kobe, Richard K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest dynamics; Forest succession; Gap partitioning; Growth; Mortality; Nonequilibrium forest dynamics; Seedling; Shade tolerance; Species coexistence; Survivorship; Tropical forests; Tropical tree diversity

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY; LIGHT EFFECT; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

CASTILLA ELASTICA; CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA; MORACEAE; POUROUMA; POUROUMA ASPERA; TROPHIS RACEMOSA; URTICACEAE;

EID: 0032945512     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0187:LGPATT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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