Density-dependent population dynamics of a dominant rain forest canopy tree

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 704-715

  Blundell, Arthur G ^a,b   Peart, David R ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cabang panti; Demography; Dipterocarpaceae; Elasticity; Gunung Palung National Park; Herbivory; Kalimantan Barat (Indonesian West Borneo); Meristem damage; Regulation; Saplings; Seedlings; Shorea quadrinervis; Southeast Asia; Tropics

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GROWTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFOREST; SAPLING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; TREE;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUNUNG PALUNG NATIONAL PARK; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST KALIMANTAN;

ANIMALIA; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; SHOREA; SHOREA QUADRINERVIS;

EID: 1642424295     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/01-4101     Document Type: Article

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