From seedlings to trees: Using ontogenetic models of growth and survivorship to assess long-term (>100 years) dynamics of a neotropical dry forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 916-930

  Mclaren, Kurt P ^a   Lévesque, Mathieu ^b   Sharma, Chait ^a   Wilson, Byron ^a   Mcdonald, Morag A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Generalized linear model; Increment; Jamaica; Population dynamics; Tropical trees

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INCREMENT; JAMAICA; TROPICAL TREE;

DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; TROPICS;

ECOLOGY;

AGE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CANOPY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHY; DRY FOREST; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY MODELING; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; LINEARITY; MIXED FOREST; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONTOGENY; RAINFOREST; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; INCREMENT CORES; JAMAICA; PROBABILITY; TREES; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

JAMAICA;

CLUSIA FLAVA; CRYPTOPHYTA; ZIZIPHUS;

EID: 79960037177     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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