Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 575-588

  Muller Landau, Helene C ^a   Condit, Richard S ^b   Chave, Jerome ^c   Thomas, Sean C ^d   Bohlman, Stephanie A ^e   Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh ^f   Davies, Stuart ^b   Foster, Robin ^g   Gunatilleke, Savitri ^h   Gunatilleke, Nimal ^h   Harms, Kyle E ^b,i   Hart, Terese ^j   Hubbell, Stephen P ^b,k   Itoh, Akira ^l   Kassim, Abd Rahman ^m   LaFrankie, James V ⁿ   Lee, Hua Seng ^o   Losos, Elizabeth ^p   Makana, Jean Remy ^q   Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro ^r   Sukumar, Raman ^s   Sun, I Fang ^t   Nur Supardi, M N ^m   Tan, Sylvester ^u   Thompson, Jill ^v   Valencia, Renato ^w   Muñoz, Gorky Villa ^w   Wills, Christopher ^x   Yamakura, Takuo ^l   Chuyong, George ^y   Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramaiah ^s   Esufali, Shameema ^h   Hall, Pamela ^b,z   Hernandez, Consuelo ^w   Kenfack, David ^aa   Kiratiprayoon, Somboon ^ab   Suresh, Hebbalalu S ^s   Thomas, Duncan ^ac   Vallejo, Martha Isabel ^ad   Ashton, Peter ^ae   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS   (Thailand)

^g FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

ⁱ LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^l Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^m FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

ⁿ NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^o Forest Department Sarawak   (Malaysia)

^p DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q Wildlife Conservation Society Canada   (Canada)

^r UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^s INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^t TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^u FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^v UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^w PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^x UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^z FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^ab THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^ac OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ad INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE RECURSOS BIOLÓGICOS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Colombia)

^ae HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Asymmetric competition; Demographic rates; Forest dynamics; Light availability; Metabolic theory of ecology; Resource competition theory; Tree allometry

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FOREST DYNAMICS; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; METABOLISM; ORGANIC CARBON; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIOMETRY; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33645870665     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00904.x     Document Type: Article

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