Shade tolerance, canopy gaps and mechanisms of coexistence of forest trees

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 475-484

  Gravel, Dominique ^a,b   Canham, Charles D ^c   Beaudet, Marilou ^a   Messier, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; COEXISTENCE; DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; SYNCHRONY; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 79954769970     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17441.x     Document Type: Article

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