The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 563-591

  Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Baker, Timothy R ^b,c   Phillips, Oliver L ^c   Almeida, Samuel ^d   Alvarez, Esteban ^e   Arroyo, Luzmilla ^f   Chave, Jerome ^g   Czimczik, Claudia I ^b   Di Fiore, Anthony ^h   Higuchi, Niro ⁱ   Killeen, Timothy J ^j   Laurance, Susan G ^k   Laurance, William F ^k   Lewis, Simon L ^c   Montoya, Lina María Mercado ^b   Monteagudo, Abel ^l,m   Neill, David A ⁿ   Vargas, Percy Núnez ^l   Patino, Sandra ^b   Pitman, Nigel C A ^o   Quesada, Carlos Alberto ^p   Salomao, Rafael ^d   Silva, José Natalino Macedo ^q,r   Lezama, Armando Torres ^s   Martínez, Rodolfo Vásquez ^m   Terborgh, John ^o   Vinceti, Barbara ^a,t   Lloyd, Jon ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^e Interconexion Electrica S A E S P   (Colombia)

^f Museo Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^j Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^k SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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

^m Herbario Selva Central Oxapampa HOXA de la estación Biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missouri   (Peru)

ⁿ Fundacion Jatun Sacha   (Ecuador)

^o DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^q CIFOR ^*  (Brazil)

^r EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^s FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^t International Plant Genetic Resources Institute Maccarese   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Amazonia; Carbon; Coarse wood productivity; GPP; Growth; NPP; Soil fertility; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; CARBON CYCLE; FOREST; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SOIL FERTILITY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANTIDESMA PLATYPHYLLUM;

EID: 2642557257     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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