Herbivores promote habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5684, 2004, Pages 663-665

  Fine, Paul V A ^a,b   Mesones, Italo ^c   Coley, Phyllis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; NUTRITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRESSURE EFFECTS; SAND;

CLAY FORESTS; CLAY SOILS; HERBIVORES; SEEDLINGS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT USE; HERBIVORE; SPECIALIZATION; TREE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLAY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FLOODING; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SEEDLING; TREE GROWTH; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; MERISTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; INSECTS; MERISTEM; PERU; PLANT LEAVES; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 3442895298     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1098982     Document Type: Article

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