Responses of floodplain forest species to spatially condensed gradients: A test of the flood-shade tolerance tradeoff hypothesis

Oecologia

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 108-118

  Battaglia, L L ^a   Sharitz, R R ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottomland hardwood forest; Disturbance; Flooding; Gradient; Light; Response curves

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; REGENERATION; SHADE TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LIGHT; NATURAL DISASTERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SEEDLING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; ASIMINA; ASIMINA TRILOBA; CELTIS LAEVIGATA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS PENNSYLVANICA; LIQUIDAMBAR; LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA; QUERCUS; ULMUS; ULMUS AMERICANA;

EID: 30544452873     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0245-7     Document Type: Article

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