Growth and mortality patterns in a thinning canopy of post-hurricane regenerating rain forest in eastern Nicaragua (1990-2005)

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1283-1297

  Ruiz, Javier ^a,b   Vandermeer, John ^a   de la Cerda, Iñigo Granzow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Programa Cientifico Complementario   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Hurricane regenerating forest; Non niche hypothesis; Relative growth rate; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HURRICANE; NICARAGUA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CYCLONIC STORMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; NICARAGUA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 78650689100     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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