Life history trade-offs in tropical trees and lianas

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1281-1288

  Gilbert, Benjamin ^a   Wright, S Joseph ^b   Muller Landau, Helene C ^c   Kitajima, Kaoru ^d   Hernandéz, Andrés ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth; Liana; Life history; Ontogenetic shift; Sapling; Seedling; Shade tolerance; Survival; Trade offs; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AVAILABILITY; SAPLING; SEEDLING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BORNEO; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUNLIGHT; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; BORNEO; ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUNLIGHT; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

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

EID: 33646749460     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1281:LHTITT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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