Coexistence in tropical forests through asynchronous variation in annual seed production

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2073-2084

  Usinowicz, Jacob ^a   Wright, S Joseph ^b   Ives, Anthony R ^a   Doak, D F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Barro Colorado Island, Panama; Community dynamics; Competition; Phylogenetic analysis; Resource partitioning; Seed production; Storage effect; Tree recruitment; Tropical forest diversity

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; COEXISTENCE; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYLOGENETICS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEED PRODUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

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

EID: 84866923286     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1935.1     Document Type: Article

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