Lack of ecotypic differentiation: Plant response to elevation, population origin, and wind in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico

Biotropica

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 225-234

  Fetcher, Ned ^a,b   Cordero, Roberto A ^b   Voltzow, Janice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Biomass accumulation; Clibadium erosum; Cloud forest; Dwarf forest; Ecotypes; Palm; Photosynthesis; Prestoea acuminata; Prestoea montana; Psychotria berteriana; Puerto Rico; Tropical montane forest; Tropical rain forest; Wind

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOTYPE; ELEVATION; WIND;

LUQUILLO MOUNTAINS; PUERTO RICO;

CLIBADIUM EROSUM; PRESTOEA ACUMINATA; PSYCHOTRIA BERTERIANA;

EID: 0034086670     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2000.tb00465.x     Document Type: Article

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