Effects of sampling scale on patterns of habitat association in tropical trees

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 349-362

  Garzon Lopez, Carol X ^a   Jansen, Patrick A ^a,b,c   Bohlman, Stephanie A ^c,d   Ordonez, Alejandro ^a,e   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal limitation; Habitat association; Niche differentiation; Panama; Point pattern analysis; Species co existence; Tropical moist forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894314066     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12090     Document Type: Article

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