Habitat filtering across tree life stages in tropical forest communities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1766, 2013, Pages

  Baldeck, C A ^a   Harms, K E ^b,c   Yavitt, J B ^d   John, R ^e   Turner, B L ^b   Valencia, R ^f   Navarrete, H ^f   Bunyavejchewin, S ^g   Kiratiprayoon, S ^h   Yaacob, A ⁱ   Supardi, M N N ^j   Davies, S J ^b,k   Hubbell, S P ^b,l   Chuyong, G B ^m   Kenfack, D ^k   Thomas, D W ⁿ   Dalling, J W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^g DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS   (Thailand)

^h THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

ⁱ UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^j FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^k HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

ⁿ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Beta diversity; Center for tropical forest science; Multivariate regression tree; Redundancy analysis; Soil; Topography

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; FOREST DYNAMICS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; JUVENILE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAPLING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84894504259     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0548     Document Type: Article

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