Comparative demography of two giant caulescent rosettes (Espeletia timotensis and E. spicata) from the high tropical Andes

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 403-413

  Silva, Juan F ^a   Trevisan, Maria Cristina ^b   Estrada, Carlos A ^a   Monasterio, Maximina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Demography; Elasticity; Espeletia; Giant rosettes; Matrix models; Paramos; Population ecology; Sensitivity; Tropical alpine; Tropical Andes

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; MATRIX; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING;

VENEZUELA;

ESPELETIA; ESPELETIA SPICATA; ESPELETIA TIMOTENSIS;

EID: 0033794503     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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