Evolutionary history and distance dependence control survival of dipterocarp seedlings

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-59

  Bagchi, Robert ^a,b   Press, Malcolm C ^a,c   Scholes, Julie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borneo; Community compensatory trend; Density dependence; Dipterocarpaceae; Herbivory; Host range; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Phylodiversity; Species coexistence; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HERBIVORY; HOST RANGE; NATURAL ENEMY; RAINFOREST; RARE SPECIES; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BORNEO; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MALAYSIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREE;

BORNEO; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MALAYSIA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES;

BORNEO;

DIPTEROCARPACEAE; PARASHOREA MALAANONAN;

EID: 72949089045     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01397.x     Document Type: Article

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