Merged trees in second-growth, fire-origin forests in Patagonia, Chile: Positive spatial association patterns and their ecological implications

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1424-1430

  Fajardo, Alex ^a   McIntire, Eliot J B ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ECOSISTEMAS DE LA PATAGONIA CIEP   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Forest stand dynamics; Multistemmed trees; Neighborhood analysis; Nothofagus pumilio; Paircorrelation function; Reserva Coyhaique; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DECIDUOUS TREE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST EDGE; GROWTH RATE; MATURATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STAND STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

PATAGONIA;

NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO;

EID: 78049314200     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000054     Document Type: Article

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