Bamboo-Dominated Forests of the Southwest Amazon: Detection, Spatial Extent, Life Cycle Length and Flowering Waves

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  de Carvalho, Anelena L ^a   Nelson, Bruce W ^a   Bianchini, Milton C ^a   Plagnol, Daniela ^a   Kuplich, Tatiana M ^b   Daly, Douglas C ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAMBOO; FLOWERING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUADUA SARCOCARPA; GUADUA WEBERBAUERI; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PLANT AGE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT SEED; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEED PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE;

BAMBUSA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOWERS; GEOGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA; TREES;

BAMBUSA; GUADUA; PHYLLOSTACHYS ACUTA;

EID: 84872856170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054852     Document Type: Article

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