Is temporal variation of seedling communities determined by environment or by seed arrival? A test in a neotropical forest

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 507-516

  Norden, Natalia ^a   Chave, Jérôme ^a   Caubère, Adeline ^b   Châtelet, Patrick ^c   Ferroni, Nicole ^a   Forget, Pierre Michel ^b   Thébaud, Christophe ^a  

^a École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^b UMR 5176   (France)

^c CNRS UPS 656   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; French Guiana; Recruitment fluctuations; Seed arrival; Seedling diversity; Seedling dynamics; Temporal fluctuations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MORTALITY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247251456     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01221.x     Document Type: Article

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