Negative plant-soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7307, 2010, Pages 752-755

  Mangan, Scott A ^a,b   Schnitzer, Stefan A ^a,b   Herre, Edward A ^b   MacK, Keenan M L ^c   Valencia, Mariana C ^d   Sanchez, Evelyn I ^b   Bever, James D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSPECIFIC; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NATURAL ENEMY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL BIOTA; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; HERBIVORE; LEAF LITTER; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLANT SOIL INTERACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEEDLING; SOIL; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PANAMA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VERTEBRATE;

SOIL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDLING; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77955482941     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09273     Document Type: Article

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