Landscape-scale environmental and floristic variation in Costa Rican old-growth rain forest remnants

Biotropica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-26

  Sesnie, Steven E ^a,b   Finegan, Bryan ^b   Gessler, Paul E ^a   Ramos, Zayra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Arboreal palms; Canopy trees; Central America; Dispersal assembly; Environmental factors; Niche; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN TREE; LANDSCAPE; RAINFOREST; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 58149141725     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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