The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1158-1167

  Lasky, Jesse R ^a   Uriarte, María ^a   Boukili, Vanessa K ^b   Erickson, David L ^c   John Kress, W ^c   Chazdon, Robin L ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Functional traits; Leaf dry matter content; Productivity; Specific leaf area; Tropical rainforest; Wood specific gravity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; GENETICS; LEAF AREA; LEAF DRY MATTER CONTENT; LETTER; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRODUCTIVITY; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WOOD SPECIFIC GRAVITY;

DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; LEAF DRY MATTER CONTENT; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIFIC LEAF AREA; TROPICAL RAINFOREST; WOOD SPECIFIC GRAVITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84905246127     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12322     Document Type: Article

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