Contrasting community compensatory trends in alternative successional pathways in central Amazonia

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-151

  Norden, Natalia ^a,b   Mesquita, Rita C G ^c   Bentos, Tony V ^c   Chazdon, Robin L ^a   Williamson, G Bruce ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; COLONIZATION; DOMINANCE; EPIPHYTE; EVERGREEN TREE; LAND USE; SECONDARY FOREST; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

AMAZONIA;

BELLUCIA; CECROPIA; VISMIA;

EID: 78650250369     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18335.x     Document Type: Article

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