Colonization front of the understorey palm Astrocaryum sciophilum in a pristine rain forest of French Guiana

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-248

  Charles Dominique, Pierre ^a   Chave, Jerome ^b,c   Dubois, Marc A ^d   De Granville, Jean Jacques ^e   Riera, Bernard ^a   Vezzoli, Cecile ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Ecologie Generale   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Astrocaryum sciophilum; French Guiana; Neotropical palaeoecology; Palm ecology; Population edge; Refuges; Scatter hoarding; Seed dispersal; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; PALEOECOLOGY; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNDERSTORY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARECACEAE; ASTROCARYUM; ASTROCARYUM SCIOPHILUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038018238     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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