Allocation trade-offs dominate the response of tropical forest growth to seasonal and interannual drought

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2192-2201

  Doughty, Christopher E ^a   Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Araujo Murakami, Alejandro ^b   Metcalfe, Daniel B ^c   Silva Espejo, Javier E ^d   Arroyo, Luzmila ^a   Heredia, Juan P ^a   Pardo Toledo, Erwin ^a   Mendizabal, Luz M ^a   Rojas Landivar, Victor D ^a   Vega Martinez, Meison ^a   Flores Valencia, Marcio ^a   Sibler Rivero, Rebeca ^a   Moreno Vare, Luzmarina ^a   Jessica Viscarra, Laura ^a   Chuviru Castro, Tamara ^a   Osinaga Becerra, Marilin ^a   Ledezma, Roxana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Deep vs. shallow soils; Drought; Net primary production (NPP); Resource allocation; Seasonally dry tropical forest

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOLIVIA; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEASON; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84905661577     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1507.1     Document Type: Article

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