Developing tests of successional hypotheses with size-structured populations, and an assessment using long-term data from a Ugandan rain forest

Plant Ecology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-127

  Sheil, Douglas ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Correspondence analysis; Diversity; Gradient analysis; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Moni toring; Passive ordination; Permanent sample plots; Succession; Time series; Tropical rain fo rest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SUCCESSION; UGANDA;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

UGANDA;

EID: 0033035332     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009729108668     Document Type: Article

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