Catastrophic natural origin of a species-poor tree community in the world's richest forest

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 559-568

  Pitman, Nigel C A ^a,d   Cerón, Carlos E ^b   Reyes, Carmita I ^b   Thurber, Mark ^c   Arellano, Jorge ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c Amazon Conservation Association ^*  (Ecuador)

^d Amazon Conservation Association   (Peru)

Author keywords

Amazon; Disturbance; Ecuador; El Reventador; History; Natural disaster; Tree diversity; Trees; Volcano

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23944493668     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467405002713     Document Type: Article

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