Ecological determinism in plant community structure across a tropical forest landscape

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2526-2538

  Svenning, J C ^a,d   Kinner, D A ^b,c   Stallard, R F ^a,b   Engelbrecht, B M J ^a   Wright, S J ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; Dispersal limitation; Mesoscale plant distributions; Niche differences; Oligarchy hypothesis; Partial RDA; Plant community assembly; Redundancy analysis; Shade tolerance; Spatial autocorrelation; Tropical forest; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LAND USE; PLANT COMMUNITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; CENTRAL AMERICA; GATUN LAKE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 5344228436     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0396     Document Type: Article

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