Variation in stand structure, light and seedling abundance across a tropical moist forest chronosequence, Panama

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 201-212

  Denslow, Julie S ^a,b   Guzman G , Sandra ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; Diversity; Logistic regression; PAR; Semivariance analysis; Spatial pattern; Succession

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; LIGHT; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

PANAMA;

RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0034042039     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3236800     Document Type: Article

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