Effects of seedling size, El Niño drought, seedling density, and distance to nearest conspecific adult on 6-year survival of Ocotea whitei seedlings in Panamá

Oecologia

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 509-516

  Gilbert, Gregory S ^a   Harms, Kyle E ^b   Hamill, David N ^c   Hubbell, Step P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Ocotea whitei; Seedling mortality

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DROUGHT STRESS; EL NINO; MORTALITY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDLING; SIZE EFFECT;

PANAMA;

EID: 0035004952     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000616     Document Type: Article

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