Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6890, 2002, Pages 732-735

  Lambers, Janneke Hille Ris ^a   Clark, James S ^a   Beckage, Brian ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SEED; TROPICS;

MORTALITY;

BIODIVERSITY;

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MORTALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; LATITUDE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANGIOSPERMS; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0037071826     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00809     Document Type: Article

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