Multiple dimensions of resource limitation in tropical forests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4864-4865

  Townsend, Alan R ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOSPHERE; CANOPY; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NOTE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PLANT BREEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOIL FERTILITY; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHTS; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84875502890     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301606110     Document Type: Note

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