Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five neotropical forests

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1908-1920

  Poorter, L ^a,b   Wright, S J ^c   Paz, H ^d   Ackerly, D D ^e   Condit, R ^c   Ibarra Manriquez G ^d   Harms, K E ^c,f   Licona, J C ^b   Martinez Ramos M ^d   Mazer, S J ^g   Muller Landau, H C ^c,h   Pena Claros M ^b   Webb, C O ⁱ   Wright, I J ^j  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Instituto Boliviano de Investigatión Forestal   (Bolivia)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Harvard University Herbaria ^*  (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Demography; Functional ecology; Height; Life history theory; Seed mass; Shade tolerance; Species coexistence; Specific leaf area; Trees; Tropical rain forest; Wood density

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF AREA; MORTALITY; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; RAINFOREST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SHADE TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 49749087640     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0207.1     Document Type: Article

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