Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 171-182

  Muscarella, Robert ^a   Uriarte, María ^a   Forero Montaña, Jimena ^b   Comita, Liza S ^c,d   Swenson, Nathan G ^e   Thompson, Jill ^b,f   Nytch, Christopher J ^b   Jonckheere, Inge ^g   Zimmerman, Jess K ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Life history trade offs; Luquillo; Plant population and community dynamics; Puerto Rico; Regeneration niche; Seed and seedling establishment limitation; Successional niche

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEED SIZE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TRADE-OFF;

LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84871494677     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12027     Document Type: Article

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