Fates of seedling carpets in an Amazonian floodplain forest: Intra-cohort competition or attack by enemies?

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1045-1054

  Alvarez Loayza, Patricia ^a   Terborgh, John ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Density dependence; Janzen Connell; Mortality factors; Negative density dependence; Per ; Plant population and community dynamics; Seedling survival; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSPECIFIC; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DICOTYLEDON; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FRUITING; FUNGUS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA;

ARTHROPODA; CLARISIA; FUNGI; ICACINACEAE; MATISIA CORDATA; MORACEAE; SOROCEA;

EID: 79958842271     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01835.x     Document Type: Article

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