Seedling co-tolerance of multiple stressors in a disturbed tropical floodplain forest

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lucas, Christine M ^a   Bruna, Emilio M ^a   Nascimento, Cristiane M N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA AMBIENTAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drought; Plant strategy theory; Resource allocation trade offs; Seedling ecology; V rzea; Wetland forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896865233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00287.1     Document Type: Article

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