Interacting effects of canopy gap, understory vegetation and leaf litter on tree seedling recruitment and composition in tropical secondary forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3716-3725

  Dupuy, Juan Manuel ^a   Chazdon, Robin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy gap; Leaf litter; Secondary succession; Seedling recruitment and mortality; Short and long lived pioneer tree; Understory vegetation

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GROWTH KINETICS; SEED;

CANOPY GAP; LEAF LITTER; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEEDLING RECRUITMENT; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION;

VEGETATION;

CANOPY GAP; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LEAF LITTER; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SECONDARY FOREST; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SHADE TOLERANCE; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

FOREST CANOPY; MORTALITY; PLANTS; SEEDLINGS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 43849094835     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.03.021     Document Type: Article

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