Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

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

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 5064-5068

  Condit, Richard ^a   Engelbrecht, Bettina M J ^a,b   Pino, Delicia ^b   Pérez, Rolando ^a   Turnera, Benjamin L ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate response; Environmental control; Phosphorus limitation; Plant communities; Tropical soil resources

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; RAIN;

ARTICLE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PANAMA; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE SOIL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHTS; PANAMA; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84875519861     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218042110     Document Type: Article

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