Physical damage in relation to carbon allocation strategies of tropical forest tree saplings

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 410-413

  Pauw, Anton ^a   Van Bael, Sunshine A ^b   Peters, Halton A ^c   Allison, Steven D ^c   Camargo, José L C ^d   Cifuentes Jara, Miguel ^e   Conserva, Auristela ^d   Restom, Teresa Garcia ^f   Heartsill Scalley, Tamara ^g   Mangan, Scott A ^h   Nunez Iturri, Gabriela ⁱ   Rivera Ocasio, Elsie ^j   Rountree, Mark ^k   Vetter, Susanne ^a   De Castilho, Carolina Volkmer ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^k UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest dynamics; Forest regeneration; La selva; Resprouting; Root; Shoot ratio; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DAMAGE; RESPROUTING; SAPLING; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

EID: 3242883133     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00334.x     Document Type: Article

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