Spatial contagiousness of canopy disturbance in tropical rain forest: An individual-tree-based test

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3490-3502

  Jansen, Patrick A ^a,b   Van Der Meer, Peter J ^a   Bongers, Frans ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cox regression; French guiana; Gap dynamics; Gap expansion; Longitudinal cohort study; Repeat disturbance; Seedling recruitment; Tree damage; Tree diameter; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GAP DYNAMICS; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORTALITY; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; RAINFOREST; RANGE EXPANSION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TESTING METHOD; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SUNLIGHT; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; PLANT LEAVES; SUNLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 60249103120     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1682.1     Document Type: Article

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