The impact of lianas on tree regeneration in tropical forest canopy gaps: Evidence for an alternative pathway of gap-phase regeneration

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 655-666

  Schnitzer, Stefan A ^a   Dalling, James W ^a,b   Carson, Walter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; Canopy dynamics; Forest succession; Panama; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

FOREST; LIANA; PANAMA; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SUCCESSION; REGENERATION; SURVIVAL; TROPICS;

CANOPY GAP; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGENERATION; TREE;

PANAMA;

EID: 0033841555     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00489.x     Document Type: Article

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