Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-317

  DeWalt, Saara J ^a   Schnitzer, Stefan A ^b,c   Chave, Jérôme ^d   Bongers, Frans ^e   Burnham, Robyn J ^f   Cai, Zhiquan ^g   Chuyong, Georges ^h   Clark, David B ^i,v   Ewango, Corneille E N ^e,j   Gerwing, Jeffrey J ^k,w   Gortaire, Esteban ^l   Hart, Terese ^m   Ibarra Manríquez, Guillermo ⁿ   Ickes, Kalan ^a   Kenfack, David ^f   Macía, Manuel J ^o   Makana, Jean Remy ^m   Martínez Ramos, Miguel ⁿ   Mascaro, Joseph ^b   Moses, Sainge ^p   Muller Landau, Helene C ^c   Parren, Marc P E ^e,q   Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy ^r   Pérez Salicrup, Diego R ⁿ   Putz, Francis E ^s   Romero Saltos, Hugo ^l,t   Thomas, Duncan ^c,u   more..

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^j Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestiere   (Congo)

^k PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^m WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Congo)

ⁿ INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^o UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^p Korup Forest Dynamics Plot Programme   (Cameroon)

^q Tropenbos International Congo Basin Programme   (Cameroon)

^r PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^s UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^t Department of Biology   (United States)

^u OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v La Selva Biological Station   (Costa Rica)

^w Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia IMAZON   (Brazil)

more..

Author keywords

Abundance; Climate; Liana communities; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASAL AREA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL FOREST; VINE;

EID: 77954129315     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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