Temporal and spatial patterns of mass flowerings on the Malay Peninsula

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1025-1031

  Numata, Shinya ^a   Yasuda, Masatoshi ^b   Okuda, Toshinori ^a   Kachi, Naoki ^c   Noor, Nur Supandi Md ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aseasonal tropics; Dipterocarpaceae; Drought; El Ni o La Ni a; Low temperature; Malay Peninsula; Mass flowering; Shorea

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOWERING; PHENOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

DIPTEROCARPACEAE; SHOREA;

EID: 0042768171     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.90.7.1025     Document Type: Article

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