Habitat associations with topography and canopy structure of tree species in a tropical montane forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

Plant Ecology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 147-161

  Aiba, Shin Ichiro ^a   Kitayama, Kanehiro ^b   Takyu, Masaaki ^c  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crown position; Growth rate; Malaysia; Spatial distribution; Species coexistence; Topography

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COEXISTENCE; GROWTH RATE; MONTANE FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; MOUNT KINABALU; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

FAGACEAE; GARCINIA; LITHOCARPUS; MYRTACEAE; SYZYGIUM; TRISTANIOPSIS;

EID: 7244239276     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000046059.92806.49     Document Type: Article

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