Dynamics of pioneer and primary successional stage trees in a logged Trinidadian tropical rainforest and the influence of drought

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-26

  Oatham, Michael P ^a   Ramnarine, Seepersad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b Ministry of Agriculture Land and Marine Resources   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Mortality rate; Neotropics; Pioneer tree; Primary tree; Recruitment rate; Trinidad and Tobago; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EVERGREEN FOREST; LOGGING (TIMBER); MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 35649001361     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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