Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 8 SPEC. ISSUE, 2012, Pages

  Norden, Natalia ^a,b,e   Letcher, Susan G ^c   Boukili, Vanessa ^b   Swenson, Nathan G ^d   Chazdon, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Costa Rica; Life history stages of plants; Mortality; Phylogenetic structure; Recruitment; Succession; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROPAGULE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RELATEDNESS; SEEDLING; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84859732960     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2179.1     Document Type: Article

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