Fire as a selective force in a Bornean tropical everwet forest

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 841-849

  Slik, J W Ferry ^a   Breman, Floris C ^b   Bernard, Caroline ^c   van Beek, Marloes ^d   Cannon, Charles H ^a,e   Eichhorn, Karl A O ^f   Sidiyasa, Kade ^g  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Eichhorn Ecologie   (Netherlands)

^g FORDA ^*  (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Fire mortality; Functional traits; Habitat niche; Life history; Tropical trees

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BURNING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NICHE; SELECTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BORNEO; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BORNEO; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FIRES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BORNEO;

EID: 77957987912     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1764-4     Document Type: Article

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