Quantifying the effects of seed arrival and environmental conditions on tropical seedling community structure

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-150

  Paine, C E Timothy ^a,c   Harms, Kyle E ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Dispersal; Niche differentiation; Seed addition; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GERMINATION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; GERMINATION; PERU; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 64749088266     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1269-6     Document Type: Article

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