Ecological meaning and predictive ability of social status, vigour and competition indices in a tropical rain forest (India)

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 221-240

  Moravie, M A ^a   Durand, M ^b,c   Houllier, F ^b,c  

^a Laboratoire de Biométrie   (France)

^b Inst Francais Pondichery P O B   (India)

^c CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Competition indices; Dawkins code; India; Social status; Tropical rain forest; Vateria indica

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFOREST; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

INDIA;

VATERIA INDICA;

EID: 0033577848     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00480-0     Document Type: Article

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