Establishment of epiphytic bromeliads in successional tropical premontane forests in costa rica

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 441-448

  Marín, Alfredo Cascante ^a,b   Wolf, Jan H D ^a   Oostermeijer, J Gerard B ^a   Den Nijs, Joannes C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Museo Nacional de Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Catopsis nutans; Colonization; Dispersal limitation; Forest succession; Guzmania monostachia; Monteverde; Tillandsia fasciculata; Werauhia gladioliflora

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EPIPHYTE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; MONOCOTYLEDON; MONTANE FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; MONTEVERDE; PUNTARENAS;

CATOPSIS NUTANS; GUZMANIA MONOSTACHIA; TILLANDSIA; TILLANDSIA FASCICULATA; WERAUHIA;

EID: 64549160731     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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