Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: Large forest plot in eastern Ecuador

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 214-229

  Valencia, Renato ^a,f   Foster, Robin B ^b   Villa, Gorky ^a   Condit, Richard ^c   Svenning, Jens Christian ^d   Hernández, Consuelo ^a   Romoleroux, Katya ^a   Losos, Elizabeth ^e   Magård, Else ^d   Balslev, Henrik ^d  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f Fund para la Cie y la Tecnologia   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Amazonian ecuador; Catena; Habitat partitioning; Topographic niche; Tropical forest diversity; Tropical trees; Yasuni National Park

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

CATENA; ESCHWEILERA; IRIARTEA DELTOIDEA; MATISIA; RINOREA;

EID: 11144358388     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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