Impact of severe drought associated with the 1997-1998 El Nino in a tropical forest in Sarawak

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 355-367

  Nakagawa, Michiko ^a   Tanaka, Kenta ^a   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^a   Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro ^b   Kato, Tsuyoshi ^a   Maeda, Teizou ^b   Sato, Kaori ^c   Miguchi, Hideo ^c   Nagamasu, Hidetoshi ^d   Ogino, Kazuhiko ^e   Teo, Stephen ^f   Hamid, Abang Abudul ^g   Seng, Lee Hua ^g  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Faculty of Environmental Science   (Japan)

^f FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^g Forest Department Sarawak   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Drought; El Nino; Forest dynamics; Mortality; Size structure; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT STRESS; EL NINO; FOREST DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 0033859546     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467400001450     Document Type: Article

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