Juvenile mortality and attacks by a specialist herbivore increase with conspecific adult basal area of Amazonian Swietenia macrophylla (Meliaceae)

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 451-460

  Norghauer, Julian M ^a   Malcolm, Jay R ^a   Zimmerman, Barbara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Brazil Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Bigleaf mahogany; Density dependence; Herbivory; Janzen Connell model; Seedlings; South eastern Amazonia; Specialist; Steniscadia poliophaea; Swietenia macrophylla; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZON RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

LEPIDOPTERA; MELIACEAE; MICROLEPIDOPTERA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 33745917059     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467406003257     Document Type: Article

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