Changing juvenile growth patterns in tropical trees: Selective effects, history, or both?

New Phytologist

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 595-598

  Baker, Patrick J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CO2 fertilization; Recruitment; Stand dynamics; Tree rings; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BOLIVIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NOTE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BOLIVIA; ECOSYSTEM; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 74549212053     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03157.x     Document Type: Note

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