Toward Trait-Based Mortality Models for Tropical Forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Aubry Kientz, Mélaine ^a   Hérault, Bruno ^a,b   Ayotte Trépanier, Charles ^b   Baraloto, Christopher ^b   Rossi, Vivien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b Campus Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DENSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FRENCH GUIANA; HEIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; TREE; TREE GROWTH; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; UNCERTAINTY; WOOD;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FRENCH GUIANA; LIGHT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84877648698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063678     Document Type: Article

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