Edaphic factors and the landscape-scale distributions of tropical rain forest trees

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2662-2675

  Clark, David B ^a,c   Palmer, Michael W ^b   Clark, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c La Selva Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Edaphic biases; Edaphic gradients; Landscape ecology; Mesoscale landscapes; Randomization tests; Topographic position effects; Trees; Tropical rain forest; Tropical soils

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION;

EID: 0033452158     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2662:EFATLS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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