Increasing liana abundance and biomass in tropical forests: Emerging patterns and putative mechanisms

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-406

  Schnitzer, Stefan A ^a,b,c   Bongers, Frans ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Department of Biological Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CO2; Disturbance; Drought; Global change; Land use change; Liana increases; Structural changes; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRAGMENTATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; LAND USE CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOMASS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST; TURNOVER; VINE; WATER BUDGET;

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA;

EID: 79952504440     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01590.x     Document Type: Review

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