Light environment and tree strategies in a Bolivian tropical moist forest: An evaluation of the light partitioning hypothesis

Plant Ecology

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 295-306

  Poorter, Lourens ^a,b   Arets, Eric J M M ^a,c  

^a Prog Manejo Bosques Amazonia B   (Bolivia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Hemispherical photographs; Irradiance; Niche differentiation; Sapling growth; Shade tolerance

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; SAPLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 0038399766     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023295806147     Document Type: Article

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