Character convergence, diversity, and disturbance in tropical rain forest in Guyana

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 3197-3212

  Ter Steege, Hans ^a,b   Hammond, David S ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Tropenbos Guyana Programme   (Guyana)

^c Iwokrama International Centre for Rain   (Guyana)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Competitive exclusion; Dispersal; Disturbance; Guyana; Rain forest, tropical; Seed mass; Soil heterogeneity; Wood density

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

GUYANA;

AVES; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0035658629     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[3197:CCDADI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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