Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 neotropical tree species

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2356-2367

  Chave, Jérôme ^a   Muller Landau, Helene C ^b   Baker, Timothy R ^c   Easdale, Tomás A ^d,g   Hans Steege, T E R ^e   Webb, Campbell O ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest biomass estimation; Neotropics; Phylogeny; Tropical forests; Wood density

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DRY FOREST; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WOOD;

ALTITUDE; CENTRAL AMERICA; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WOOD;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC FOREST; CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANACARDIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SIMAROUBACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 33845473904     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[2356:RAPVOW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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