Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3664-3674

  Wright, S Joseph ^a   Kitajima, Kaoru ^a,b   Kraft, Nathan J B ^c   Reich, Peter B ^d   Wright, Ian J ^e   Bunker, Daniel E ^f   Condit, Richard ^a   Dalling, James W ^a,g   Davies, Stuart J ^a   DíAz, Sandra ^h   Engelbrecht, Bettina M J ^a,i   Harms, Kyle E ^a,j   Hubbell, Stephen P ^a,k   Marks, Christian O ^d   Ruiz Jaen, Maria C ^l   Salvador, Cristina M ^m   Zanne, Amy E ⁿ  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^j LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^m Santa Fe Botanical Garden   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; Growth rates; Leaf mass per area; Maximum height; Maximum size; Mortality rates; Panama; Seed mass; Seed size; Wood density

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MORTALITY; SAPLING; SEED SIZE; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WOOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT LEAVES; SEEDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

EID: 78249271830     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2335.1     Document Type: Article

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