Possible Negative Effect of General Flowering on Tree Growth and Aboveground Biomass Increment in a Bornean Tropical Rain Forest

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 715-719

  Nakagawa, Michiko ^a   Matsushita, Michinari ^b   Kurokawa, Hiroko ^c   Samejima, Hiromitsu ^d   Takeuchi, Yayoi ^e   Aiba, Masahiro ^c   Katayama, Ayumi ^f   Tokumoto, Yuji ^a   Kume, Tomonori ^g   Yoshifuji, Natsuko ^d   Kuraji, Koichiro ^h   Nagamasu, Hidetoshi ⁱ   Sakai, Shoko ^j   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Dipterocarp forest; Drought; Hierarchical Bayesian model; Lambir; Masting; Reproductive ecology

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; DROUGHT STRESS; FLOWERING; GROWTH RATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MASTING; RAINFOREST; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TROPICAL FOREST;

BORNEO;

EID: 84868665119     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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