Liana Abundance, Diversity, and Distribution on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Schnitzer, Stefan A ^a,b   Mangan, Scott A ^a,b   Dalling, James W ^b,c   Baldeck, Claire A ^c   Hubbell, Stephen P ^b,d   Ledo, Alicia ^a,e   Muller Landau, Helene ^b   Tobin, Michael F ^a   Aguilar, Salomon ^b   Brassfield, David ^b   Hernandez, Andres ^b   Lao, Suzanne ^b   Perez, Rolando ^b   Valdes, Oldemar ^a,b   Yorke, Suzanne Rutishauser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAUHINIA GUIANENSIS; CELASTRACEAE; COCCOLOBA EXCELSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVOLVULACEAE; ENLADA GIGAS; FABACEAE; FOREST DYNAMICS; HIRAEA RECLINATA; LIANA; MALPIGHIACEAE; MARIPA PANAMENSIS; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PLANT; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT STEM; POLYGONACEAE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIONOSTEMMA ASPERUM; RAMET; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEM BASAL AREA; STEM DENSITY; STEM DIAMETER; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; FERNS; ISLANDS; PANAMA; PLANT STEMS; REPRODUCTION; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84871351749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052114     Document Type: Article

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