Growth responses of understorey trees to drought perturbation in tropical rainforest in Borneo

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2095-2107

  Newbery, D M ^a   Lingenfelder, M ^b   Poltz, K F ^a   Ong, R C ^c   Ridsdale, C E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Borneo; Coloured noise; Drought; Plurality; Stochasticity; Understorey

Indexed keywords

BORNEO; COLOURED NOISE; PLURALITY; STOCHASTICITY; UNDERSTOREY;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ECOLOGY;

DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PERTURBATION; RAINFOREST; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; EXTRACTIVES; GROWTH; NOISE; PLANTS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BORNEO; DANUM VALLEY; EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

EID: 80055000787     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.07.030     Document Type: Article

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