Assessing the growth of tropical rain forest trees: Issues for forest modeling and management

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 981-997

  Clark, Deborah A ^a,b   Clark, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b La Selva Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Cecropia; Costa Rica; Forest management; Forest dynamics models; Functional groups for use in models; Growth; Growth capacity; Inherent vs. average; La Selva Biological Station; Ontogenetic switching; Pioneer species; Tree growth; Trees; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFOREST; TREE;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA;

AMARA; CECROPIA; CECROPIA INSIGNIS; CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA; DIPTERYX PANAMENSIS; HYERONIMA; HYERONIMA ALCHORNEOIDES; HYMENOLOBIUM; HYMENOLOBIUM MESOAMERICANUM; LECYTHIS; LECYTHIS AMPLA; MINQUARTIA; MINQUARTIA GUIANENSIS; PITHECELLOBIUM; PITHECELLOBIUM ELEGANS; SIMAROUBA; SIMAROUBA AMARA; SIMAROUBACEAE;

EID: 0033178335     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0981:ATGOTR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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