The sensitivity of wood production to seasonal and interannual variations in climate in a lowland Amazonian rainforest

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 295-306

  Rowland, Lucy ^a   Malhi, Y ^b   Silva Espejo, J E ^c   Farfan Amezquita F ^c   Halladay, K ^b   Doughty, C E ^b   Meir, P ^a,e   Phillips, O L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest; Functional traits; Seasonality; Soil water availability; Temperature sensitivity; Tropical tree growth

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOME; CLIMATE VARIATION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAINFOREST; SOIL WATER; TROPICAL FOREST; WOOD;

RAIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WOOD;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; PERU; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER; WOOD;

EID: 84891903691     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2766-9     Document Type: Article

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