Long-term persistence of pioneer species in tropical rain forest soil seed banks

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 531-535

  Dalling, James W ^a,b   Brown, Thomas A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dating; Forest regeneration; Pioneer species; Seed survival

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; DATING METHOD; DICOTYLEDON; FOREST SOIL; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PERSISTENCE; PIONEER SPECIES; POPULATION GROWTH; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROTON; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREMA; TROPIC CLIMATE; ZANTHOXYLUM;

CROTON; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREMA; TROPICAL CLIMATE; ZANTHOXYLUM;

TREMA; TREMA MICRANTHA; ZANTHOXYLUM;

EID: 63449126386     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597221     Document Type: Review

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