Environmental and neighbourhood effects on tree fern distributions in a neotropical lowland rain forest

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-24

  Jones, Mirkka M ^a   Olivas Rojas, Paulo ^b   Tuomisto, Hanna ^a   Clark, David B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Costa Rica; Cyatheaceae; Habitat; La Selva; Logistic regression; Microhabitat; Niche; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FERN; MICROHABITAT; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NICHE OVERLAP; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

CYATHEACEAE; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 34047241563     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2007)18[13:EANEOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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