The role of Functional traits and individual variation in the co-occurrence of Ficus species

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 978-990

  Lasky, Jesse R ^a,b,c   Yang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Guocheng ^a   Cao, Min ^a   Tang, Yong ^a   Keitt, Timothy H ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Community assembly; Dipterocarp rain forest; Habitat disturbance; Herbivore defense; Permutation test; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; DECIDUOUS TREE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF AREA; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYLOGENETICS; RAINFOREST; RESOURCE USE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

CHINA;

FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); MORACEAE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FICUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

FICUS; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84904104041     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0437.1     Document Type: Article

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