Functional diversity changes during tropical forest succession

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-96

  Lohbeck, Madelon ^a,b   Poorter, Lourens ^a   Paz, Horacio ^b   Pla, Laura ^c   van Breugel, Michiel ^d   Martínez Ramos, Miguel ^b   Bongers, Frans ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^c Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

^d APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiapas; Chronosequence; Functional redundancy; Mexico; Secondary forests; Species diversity; Specific leaf area; Wood density

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LEAF AREA; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; WOOD;

CHIAPAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84859627323     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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