Recruitment in tropical tree species: revealing complex spatial patterns

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Wiegand, Thorsten ^a   Martínez, Isabel ^a   Huth, Andreas ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bci tropical forest; Dispersal; Multiple clustering; Paircorrelation function; Point pattern analysis; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL REGION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CECROPIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORDIA; ECOSYSTEM; FLACOURTIACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; MELASTOMATACEAE; PANAMA; RUBIACEAE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; CECROPIA PLANT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORDIA; ECOSYSTEM; FLACOURTIACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; MELASTOMATACEAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; RUBIACEAE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; CENTRAL AMERICA; GATUN LAKE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 70349433725     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605368     Document Type: Article

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