Tree mortality and growth in 11 sympatric Macaranga species in Borneo

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 920-932

  Davies, Stuart James ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Borneo; Gap dynamics, tree canopy; Lambir Hills National Park,Sarawak, Malaysia; Life history; Macaranga; Pioneer trees; Rain forest; Resource availability; Shade tolerance; Succession; Tropical tree demography

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MORTALITY; ONTOGENY; SOIL TEXTURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BORNEO;

MACARANGA;

EID: 0035060833     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[0920:tmagis]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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