Comparison of seedling recruitment under arborescent palms in two Neotropical forests

Oecologia

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 533-545

  Wang, Yung Ho ^a,b   Augspurger, Carol ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crown architecture; Landscape scale; Light availability; Rarefied species richness; Seedling density

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; SEEDLING; TREE;

LIGHT; SEEDLING; TREES;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; CENTRAL AMERICA; GATUN LAKE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 33644591752     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0279-x     Document Type: Article

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