Negative density dependence of seed dispersal and seedling recruitment in a Neotropical palm

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1111-1120

  Jansen, Patrick A ^a,b,c   Visser, Marco D ^a,b,d   Joseph Wright, S ^a   Rutten, Gemma ^a,c,e   Muller Landau, Helene C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clumping; Competition for dispersers; Escape; Intraspecific competition; Janzen Connell; Population regulation; Recruitment limitation; Seed limitation; Species coexistence; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ATTALEA BUTYRACEA;

ARECACEAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUMPING; COMPETITION FOR DISPERSERS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; JANZEN-CONNELL; LETTER; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION REGULATION; RECRUITMENT LIMITATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED LIMITATION; SEEDLING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

CLUMPING; COMPETITION FOR DISPERSERS; ESCAPE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; JANZEN-CONNELL; POPULATION REGULATION; RECRUITMENT LIMITATION; SEED LIMITATION; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARECACEAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANAMA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84905259106     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12317     Document Type: Article

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