Within- and among-species variation in specific leaf area drive community assembly in a tropical cloud forest

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1103-1113

  Long, Wenxing ^a   Zang, Runguo ^a   Schamp, Brandon S ^b   Ding, Yi ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Environmental filtering; Solar irradiance; Species assemblage; Trait variation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOUD FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; IRRADIANCE; LEAF AREA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIOTA; CHINA; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIOTA; CHINA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 80855148219     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2050-9     Document Type: Article

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