Similar non-random processes maintain diversity in two tropical rainforests

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1427, 1999, Pages 1445-1452

  Wills, Christopher ^a   Condit, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Host pathogen interactions; Janzen Connell hypothesis

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FOREST; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; TROPICS;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; MALAYSIA; NEGRI SEMBILAN; PANAMA; PASOH FOREST RESERVE;

EID: 0033595084     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0799     Document Type: Article

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