A time to grow and a time to die: A new way to analyze the dynamics of size, light, age, and death of tropical trees

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2766-2778

  Metcalf, C Jessica E ^a   Horvitz, Carol C ^b   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^c   Clark, Deborah A ^d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^e La Selva Biological Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Costa Rica; Crown illumination index; Environmental stochasticity; Integral projection model; La selva; Light; Markov chains; Mortality trajectory; Remaining life expectancy; Size structure; Tropical trees

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; JUVENILE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVORSHIP; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREE RING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

EID: 70349952048     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1645.1     Document Type: Article

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