Falling palm fronds structure Amazonian rainforest sapling communities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2004, Pages

  Peters, Halton A ^a   Pauw, Anton ^b   Silman, Miles R ^c   Terborgh, John W ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy litterfall; Iriartea deltoidea; Physical disturbance; Sapling suppression

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; RAINFOREST; SAPLING; SENESCENCE;

ARTICLE; CANOPY; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; IRIARTEA DELTOIDEA; LEAF SENESCENCE; LITTER FALL; NONHUMAN; PLANT ECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

IRIARTEA DELTOIDEA;

EID: 3242890173     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0197     Document Type: Article

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