Sapling structure and regeneration strategy in 18 Shorea species co-occurring in a tropical rainforest

Annals of Botany

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-321

  Aiba, Masahiro ^a   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allocation; Architecture; Borneo; Dipterocarps; Regeneration strategy; Sapling; Seedling; Shade tolerance; Shorea

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SAPLING; TRADE-OFF;

SHOREA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BORNEO; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RHIZOME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; BORNEO; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RHIZOME; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 25144480936     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mci179     Document Type: Article

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