Functional traits determine trade-offs and niches in a tropical forest community

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20627-20632

  Sterck, Frank ^a   Markesteijn, Lars ^a,b   Schieving, Feike ^c   Poorter, Lourens ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; WATER;

ARTICLE; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FUNCTIONAL PLANT TRAIT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT LEAF; PLANT MODEL; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT STOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPLING; SHADE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TRADE OFF; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WATER AVAILABILITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BOLIVIA; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84855501884     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106950108     Document Type: Article

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