Epiphytic bromeliad communities in secondary and mature forest in a tropical premontane area

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 520-532

  Cascante Marín, Alfredo ^a   Wolf, Jan H D ^a   Oostermeijer, J Gerard B ^a   den Nijs, J C M ^a   Sanahuja, Oscar ^b   Durán Apuy, Alejandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Bromeliad diversity; Community composition; Costa Rica; Dispersal limitation; Monteverde; Population structure; Seed availability

Indexed keywords

CATOPSIS NUTANS; GUZMANIA MONOSTACHIA; TILLANDSIA; TILLANDSIA FASCICULATA; TILLANDSIA TRICOLOR;

EID: 33749526463     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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