Long-term Changes in Fruit Phenology in a West African Lowland Tropical Rain Forest are Not Explained by Rainfall

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 434-440

  Polansky, Leo ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Phenophase; Plant community; Seasonality; Ta National Park

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FRUIT; FRUITING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

COTE D'IVOIRE; TAI NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84879795436     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12033     Document Type: Article

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