Allometry for juvenile trees in an amazonian forest after wind disturbance

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 213-219

  Ribeiro, Gabriel Henrique Pires de Mello ^a   Suwa, Rempei ^b   Marra, Daniel Magnabosco ^a,c,d   Lima, Adriano José Nogueira ^a   Kajimoto, Takuya ^b   Ishizuka, Moriyoshi ^b   Higuchi, Niro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation pattern; Natural regeneration; Wind disturbances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898882528     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.48.213     Document Type: Article

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