Impacts of recruitment limitation and canopy disturbance on tropical tree species richness

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 511-517

  Köhler, Peter ^a   Huth, Andreas ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest growth model; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Recruitment limitation; Species richness; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS;

FOREST GROWTH MODEL; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; RECRUITMENT LIMITATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; GROWTH MODELING; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; RECRUITMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 34047100281     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.11.023     Document Type: Article

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