The relative importance of fungal infection, conspecific density and environmental heterogeneity for seedling survival in a dominant tropical tree

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 587-593

  Chanthorn, Wirong ^a   Caughlin, Trevor ^b,c   Dechkla, Sukhum ^a   Brockelman, Warren Y ^d  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^d Bioresources Technology Unit   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Cinnamomum; Fungi; Host parasite; Janzen Connell; Plant disease; Shade tolerance; Southeast Asia; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CONSPECIFIC; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE; EVERGREEN FOREST; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

CINNAMOMUM; CINNAMOMUM SUBAVENIUM; FUNGI;

EID: 84883453751     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12044     Document Type: Article

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