Why abundant tropical tree species are phylogenetically old

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

Volumn 110, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 16039-16043

  Wang, Shaopeng ^a   Chen, Anping ^b   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Pacala, Stephen W ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island (BCI); Niche hypothesis; Phylogenetic age; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEREDITY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT EVOLUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND (BCI); NICHE HYPOTHESIS; PHYLOGENETIC AGE; PHYLOGENY;

AGE FACTORS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84885027594     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314992110     Document Type: Article

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