Neighborhood analyses of canopy tree competition along environmental gradients in New England forests

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 540-554

  Canham, Charles D ^a   Papaik, Michael J ^a   Uriarte, María ^a   McWilliams, William H ^b   Jenkins, Jennifer C ^c   Twery, Mark J ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Environmental gradients; Forest Inventory and Analysis; Fundamental niche; Neighborhood analyses; New England (USA) forests; Realized niche; Spatially explicit models; Temperate forests; Tree competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NICHE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PINACEAE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANGIOSPERMS; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PINACEAE; TREES; VERMONT;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646124015     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0540:NAOCTC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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