Decomposing dispersal limitation: Limits on fecundity or seed distribution?

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 935-944

  Terborgh, John ^a   Alvarez Loayza, Patricia ^a   Dexter, Kyle ^b   Cornejo, Fernando ^c   Carrasco, Cecilia ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Amazon; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Dispersal limitation; Fecundity; Per ; Sapling recruitment; Seed rain; Tropical forest; Winner by forfeit

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; FECUNDITY; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PRODUCTION; SEED RAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 79958790247     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01836.x     Document Type: Article

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