Recruitment subsidies support tree subpopulations in non-preferred tropical forest habitats

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 636-644

  Zuidema, Pieter A ^a   Yamada, Toshihiro ^a,b   During, Heinjo J ^a   Itoh, Akira ^c   Yamakura, Takuo ^c   Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro ^d   Kanzaki, Mamoru ^e   Tan, Sylvester ^f   Ashton, Peter S ^g  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Forest Department   (Malaysia)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity analysis; Habitat association; Mass effect; Matrix model; Population growth; Recruitment subsidy; Source sink dynamics; Tree demography; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUBPOPULATION; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST;

EAST MALAYSIA; LAMBIR HILLS NATIONAL PARK; MALAYSIA; SARAWAK;

MALVACEAE; SCAPHIUM; SCAPHIUM BORNEENSE;

EID: 77952947476     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01638.x     Document Type: Article

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