Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 720-727

  Paine, C E Timothy ^a,b   Baraloto, Christopher ^c   Chave, Jérôme ^d   Hérault, Bruno ^e  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Campus Agronomique   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; LEAF AREA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NICHE PARTITIONING; RAINFOREST; SURFACE AREA; TROPICAL FOREST;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 79955040225     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.19110.x     Document Type: Article

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