Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6899, 2002, Pages 770-774

  Phillips, Oliver L ^a   Vésquez Martínez, Rodolfo ^b   Arroyo, Luzmila ^c,d   Baker, Timothy R ^a   Killeen, Timothy ^d,e   Lewis, Simon L ^a,f   Malhi, Yadvinder ^f   Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel ^b,g   Neill, David ^c,h   Núñez Vargas, Percy ^g   Alexiades, Miguel ^j   Cerón, Carlos ⁱ   Di Flore, Anthony ^k   Erwin, Terry ^l   Jardim, Anthony ^d   Palacios, Walter ^h   Saldias, Mario ^d   Vinceti, Barbara ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Prolongación Bolognesi Mz E 6 Oxapampa   (Peru)

^c MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^d Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^e Conservation International Washington DC 20036 ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^h Fundación Jatun Sacha   (Ecuador)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^j NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^k NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOLOGY;

DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM;

FORESTRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CARBON SINK; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; WOODY PLANT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FOREST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE GROWTH; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GUYANA; PLANTS; RAIN; SOIL; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WOOD;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 18544381569     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00926     Document Type: Article

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