Effect of temporal autocorrelation on apparent growth rate variation in forest tree census data and an alternative distribution function of tree growth rate

Ecological Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-15

  Kohyama, Takashi ^a,b   Kubo, Takuya ^a,b   Macklin, Eric ^c,d  

^a Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth rate; Passage distribution; Recruitment rate; Resident distribution; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; GROWTH RATE; SIZE STRUCTURE; SKEWNESS;

EID: 13444258027     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-004-0007-8     Document Type: Article

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