The memory of spatial patterns: Changes in local abundance and aggregation in a tropical forest

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1540-1549

  Flügge, Anton J ^a   Olhede, Sofia C ^a   Murrell, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Barro Colorado Island (BCI); Community ecology; Individual based model; Panama; Population dynamics; Spatial pattern; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFOREST; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; TREE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

EID: 84864188336     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1004.1     Document Type: Article

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