The timing of abscission affects dispersal distance in a wind-dispersed tropical tree

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 208-218

  Maurer, Kyle D ^a   Bohrer, Gil ^a   Medvigy, David ^b   Wright, S Joseph ^c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Abscission; Dispersal; Long distance dispersal; Mechanistic modelling; Meteorology; Seed trap; Tropical forest; Updraft; Wind dispersal

Indexed keywords

ABSCISSION; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CENSUS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; MOVEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST; TURBULENCE; UPDRAFT; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

LUEHEA SEEMANNII;

EID: 84873083014     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12028     Document Type: Article

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