Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 947-959

  Harms, Kyle E ^a,d   Condit, Richard ^a   Hubbell, Stephen P ^b   Foster, Robin B ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Maintenance of species diversity; Niche differentiation; Spatial autocorrelation; Specialization

Indexed keywords

HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; SHRUB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

EID: 0035660743     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0022-0477.2001.00615.x     Document Type: Article

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