Herbivory of tropical rain forest tree seedlings correlates with future mortality

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1092-1101

  Eichhorn, Markus P ^a   Nilus, Reuben ^b   Compton, Stephen G ^c   Hartley, Sue E ^d   Burslem, David F R P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute of Marine Sciences School of Biological Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dipterocarpaceae; East Sabah; Growth rates; Habitat specialization; Insect herbivores; Lierbivory; Malaysia; Mortality; Rain forest; Reciprocal transplant; Seedling; Sepilok forest reserve

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DAMAGE; DICOTYLEDON; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; INSECT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORTALITY; NATURAL ENEMY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RAINFOREST; RECIPROCITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEEDLING; SOIL TYPE; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SEPILOK FOREST RESERVE;

DIPTEROCARPACEAE; HEXAPODA; HOPEA NERVOSA; PARASHOREA; SHOREA MULTIFLORA; TOMENTELLA;

EID: 77951145884     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0300.1     Document Type: Article

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