Large-scale wind disturbances promote tree diversity in a Central Amazon forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Marra, Daniel Magnabosco ^a,b,c   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^c,d,e,f   Higuchi, Niro ^c   Trumbore, Susan E ^b,c   Ribeiro, Gabriel H P M ^c   Dos Santos, Joaquim ^c   Negrón Juárez, Robinson I ^e,f   Reu, Björn ^a   Wirth, Christian ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Tulane University   (United States)

^g GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; WIND; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; SPACE FLIGHT;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; FORESTS; SPACECRAFT; TREES; WIND;

EID: 84905455191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103711     Document Type: Article

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