Partitioning of the understorey light environment by two Amazonian treelets

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 751-763

  Terborgh, John ^a   Mathews, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; CANOPY; Crown architecture; Forest understorey; Hemispherical photography; Light environment; Neea; Resource partitioning; Rinorea

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CROWN ARCHITECTURE; INTERCEPTION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; UNDERSTORY;

PERU;

NEEA CHLORANTHA; RINOREA VIRIDIFOLIA;

EID: 0033379298     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467499001157     Document Type: Article

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