Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6777, 2000, Pages 493-495

  Harms, Kyle E ^a   Wright, S Joseph ^a   Calderón, Osvaldo ^a   Hernández, Andrés ^a   Herre, Edward Allen ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DENSITY; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPICS;

PANAMA; SEEDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034732088     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35006630     Document Type: Article

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