Aboveground roots in Amazonian floodplain trees

Biotropica

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 609-619

  Wittmann, Florian ^a   Parolin, Pia ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerial roots; Amazonia; Brazil; Buttresses; Flooding; Stilt roots; Succession; Tropics; V rzea; Vegetation zonation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODING; ROOT SYSTEM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 31344468541     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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