Sapling growth and survivorship as affected by light and flooding in a river floodplain forest of southeast Texas

Oecologia

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 399-407

  Lin, Jie ^a   Harcombe, Paul A ^a   Fulton, Mark R ^a,b   Hall, Rosine W ^a,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flooding; Mortality risk; Radial growth; Shade tolerance; Tree sapling

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIGHT EFFECT; SHADE TOLERANCE; SURVIVORSHIP;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUNLIGHT; SURVIVAL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUNLIGHT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEXAS; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4544263506     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1522-6     Document Type: Article

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