The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 798-805

  Bongers, Frans ^a   Poorter, Lourens ^a   Hawthorne, William D ^b   Sheil, Douglas ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Ghana; Guild; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Shade tolerance; Species density; Species richness; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RAINFOREST; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GHANA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; GHANA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 67650076591     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01329.x     Document Type: Article

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