Lianas suppress tree regeneration and diversity in treefall gaps

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 849-857

  Schnitzer, Stefan A ^a,b   Carson, Walter P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Nature Monument; Diversity maintenance; Gap phase regeneration; Lianas; Panama; Treefall gaps; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

CLIMBING PLANT; COEXISTENCE; DISPERSAL; GROWTH FORM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PIONEER SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREEFALL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; PANAMA; TREES;

BARRO COLORADO NATURE MONUMENT; COLON [PANAMA]; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 77954641955     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01480.x     Document Type: Article

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