Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1489-1499

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a,b   Fulé, Peter Z ^b   Huffman, David W ^b   Crouse, Joseph ^b   Laliberté, Etienne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bark thickness; Community assembly; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Fire regime; Functional traits; Leaf economics spectrum; Maximum entropy; Performance filter; Plant strategy; Wood density

Indexed keywords

BARK; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 80053629204     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01885.x     Document Type: Article

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