Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2479-2492

  Sapijanskas, Jurgis ^a,b   Paquette, Alain ^c   Potvin, Catherine ^a,d   Kunert, Norbert ^e   Loreau, Michel ^a,f  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f Moulis   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Crown; Ecosystem functioning; Intraspecific diversity; Light competition; Niche differences; Overyielding; Panama; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Plantation; Sardinilla project; Tree

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOLIAGE; NICHE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84905914520     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1366.1     Document Type: Article

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