Does habitat specialization by seedlings contribute to the high diversity of a lowland rain forest?

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 969-979

  Metz, Margaret R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Environmental heterogeneity; Niche differentiation; Plant population and community dynamics; Regeneration niche; Spatial autocorrelation; Torus translation; Yasun National Park

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOCORRELATION; CENSUS; DATA SET; GERMINATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOTYPE; MORTALITY; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SURVIVAL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ECUADOR; NAPO [ECUADOR]; YASUNI NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84862550929     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01972.x     Document Type: Article

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