Drought in a Bornean everwet rain forest

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-474

  Potts, Matthew D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensatory mechanisms; Diversity; Drought; Intermediate Disturbance hypothesis; Rain forest

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT STRESS; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; TREE;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 0037712954     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2003.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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