Increasing liana abundance and basal area in a tropical forest: The contribution of long-distance clonal colonization

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 317-324

  Yorke, Suzanne R ^a   Schnitzer, Stefan A ^a,b   Mascaro, Joseph ^a,b,e   Letcher, Susan G ^c   Carson, Walter P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Costa Rica; La Selva Biological Station; Recruitment; Succession; Vegetative reproduction

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASAL AREA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLONAL ORGANISM; COLONIZATION; FOREST FLOOR; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SELECTIVE LOGGING; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION; VINE;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION; LIMON;

EID: 84877154293     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12015     Document Type: Article

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