Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

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

Volumn 111, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5616-5621

  Lasky, Jesse R ^a   Uriarte, María ^a   Boukili, Vanessa K ^b   Chazdon, Robin L ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Community Turnover; Hierarchical Bayes; Individual Variation; Secondary Forest; Species Interactions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION; COSTA RICA; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; LEAF AREA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; RELATIVE DENSITY; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WOOD;

COMMUNITY TURNOVER; HIERARCHICAL BAYES; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES INTERACTIONS;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOTA; COSTA RICA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WOOD;

EID: 84898810203     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319342111     Document Type: Article

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