Dynamics of the forest communities at Pasoh and Barro Colorado: Comparing two 50-ha plots

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1391, 1999, Pages 1739-1748

  Condit, Richard ^a   Ashton, Peter S ^b   Manokaran, N ^c   LaFrankie, James V ^d   Hubbell, Stephen P ^a,e   Foster, Robin B ^a,f  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; Pasoh; Tree demography; Tropical forest dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT;

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

EID: 0033615990     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0517     Document Type: Article

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