Flooding and canopy dynamics shape the demography of a clonal Amazon understorey herb

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1045-1055

  Schleuning, Matthias ^a,b   Huamán, Vicky ^c   Matthies, Diethart ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

Author keywords

Canopy gap; Dry season; Floodplain; Heliconiaceae; Life table response experiment; Neotropical forest; Perennial plant; Periodic matrix model; Population dynamics; Ramet demography

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; CLONE; DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT; DRY SEASON; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; HERB; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE TABLE; LIGHT QUALITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION DECLINE; SURVIVAL; UNDERSTORY;

HELICONIA METALLICA; HELICONIACEAE;

EID: 49649096869     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01416.x     Document Type: Article

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