Neighborhood and community interactions determine the spatial pattern of tropical tree seedling survival

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2248-2258

  Queenborough, Simon A ^a,d   Burslem, David F R P ^a   Garwood, Nancy C ^b   Valencia, Renato ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autologistic regression; Community compensatory trend (CCT); Ecuador; Myristicaceae; Seedling; Spatial autocorrelation; Species coexistence; Tropical forest; Yasun

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; CONSPECIFIC; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EVERGREEN TREE; MORTALITY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ECUADOR; NAPO [ECUADOR]; SOUTH AMERICA; YASUNI NATIONAL PARK;

MYRISTICACEAE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MYRISTICACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MYRISTICACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 38449085298     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0737.1     Document Type: Article

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