The use of productivity and decomposition to address functional redundancy in the Neotropics

Community Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-57

  Myster, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lower montane wet rainforest; LTER; Luquillo experimental forest; Successional trees

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY;

PUERTO RICO;

CECROPIA; CECROPIA SCHREBERIANA; INGA VERA; PSYCHOTRIA; PSYCHOTRIA BERTERIANA;

EID: 0036057028     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.3.2002.1.6     Document Type: Article

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