Ecological and environmental factors constrain sprouting ability in tropical trees

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 485-492

  Salk, Carl F ^a   McMahon, Sean M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage; Disturbance; Functional traits; Panama; Prorena

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LAND USE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NITROGEN FIXATION; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEED; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; TREE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WOOD;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; PANAMA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 79955987081     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1850-7     Document Type: Article

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