Habitat heterogeneity and niche structure of trees in two tropical rain forests

Oecologia

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 446-453

  Potts, Matthew D ^a   Davies, Stuart J ^b   Bossert, William H ^c   Tan, S ^d   Nur Supardi, M N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Forest Department Sarawak   (Malaysia)

^e FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Dispersal assembly; Model; Niche assembly; Null; Partitioning; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; NICHE BREADTH; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MALAYSIA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ALTITUDE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MALAYSIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 4544286149     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1525-3     Document Type: Article

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