Density dependence explains tree species abundance and diversity in tropical forests

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7068, 2005, Pages 658-661

  Volkov, Igor ^a   Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   He, Fangliang ^b   Hubbell, Stephen P ^c,d   Maritan, Amos ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEMS;

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; RSA; TROPICAL FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ECOLOGY; EMPIRICISM; FOREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREE;

FORESTRY; TREES;

EID: 28444492009     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04030     Document Type: Article

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