Spatial patterns reveal negative density dependence and habitat associations in tropical trees

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1723-1729

  Bagchi, Robert ^a,b,m   Henrys, Peter A ^c   Brown, Patrick E ^d,e   Burslem, David F R P ^f   Diggle, Peter J ^g,h   Gunatilleke, C V Savitri ⁱ   Gunatilleke, I A U Nimal ⁱ   Kassim, Abdul Rrahman ^j   Law, Richard ^k   Noor, Supardi ^j   Valencia, Renato L ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^j FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^l PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^m DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Inhomogeneous K function; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Negative density dependence; Species coexistence; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOTIC FACTOR; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONSPECIFIC; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INHOMOGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 80051869123     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0335.1     Document Type: Article

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