Tree community change across 700 km of lowland Amazonian forest from the Andean foothills to Brazil

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 525-535

  Pitman, Nigel C A ^a,k   Mogollón, Hugo ^b   Dávila, Nallarett ^c   Ríos, Marcos ^c   García Villacorta, Roosevelt ^c   Guevara, Juan ^b   Baker, Timothy R ^d   Monteagudo, Abel ^e   Phillips, Oliver L ^d   Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo ^e   Ahuite, Manuel ^c   Aulestia, Milton ^f   Cardenas, Dairon ^g   Cerón, Carlos E ^h   Loizeau, Pierre André ⁱ   Neill, David A ^f   Núñez V , Percy ^j   Palacios, Walter A ^f   Spichiger, Rodolphe ⁱ   Valderrama, Elvis ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Finding Species   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^f Herbario Nacional Del Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^g INSTITUTO AMAZÓNICO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS SINCHI   (Colombia)

^h UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

ⁱ Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève ^*  (Switzerland)

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

^k Centro de Estudios de la Amazonia Andina Con la Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica La Estación Biológica Villa Carmen Calle Cesar Vallejo   (Peru)

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Author keywords

Amazon; Biogeography; Compositional turnover; Ecuador; Iquitos; Peru; Yasun National Park

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLORISTICS; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PROTECTED AREA; SOIL TEXTURE;

ECUADOR; IQUITOS; LORETO; NAPO [ECUADOR]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA; YASUNI NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 49749083117     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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