Forest turnover rates follow global and regional patterns of productivity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 524-531

  Stephenson, Nathan L ^a   Van Mantgem, Phillip J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dynamics; Forest dynamics; Forest turnover; Mortality; Net primary productivity; Permanent sample plots; Recruitment; Temperate forest; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; TURNOVER;

GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 18444382704     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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