Tree species distributions in an upper Amazonian forest

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2651-2661

  Pitman, Nigel C A ^a   Terborgh, John ^a   Silman, Miles R ^a,c   Nuñez V , Percy ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Peru; Rarity; Tropical forests; Tropical tree communities; Tropical trees

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

MANU NATIONAL PARK; PERU;

EID: 0033457925     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2651:TSDIAU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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