Beyond mast-fruiting events: Community asynchrony and individual dormancy dominate woody plant reproductive behavior across seven Bornean forest types

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1558-1566

  Cannon, Charles H ^a,e   Curran, Lisa M ^b   Marshall, Andrew J ^c   Leighton, Mark ^d  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d C/o Carr Foundation ^*  (United States)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

ENSO; Keystone forest type; Lianas; Phenology; Phylogenetic diversity; Tropical woody climbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749021033     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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