Community divergence in a tropical forest following a severe cyclone

Austral Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 696-709

  Murphy, Helen T ^a   Metcalfe, Daniel J ^a   Bradford, Matt G ^a   Ford, Andrew J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Dispersion; Diversity; Recruitment; Wet Tropics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEFOLIATION; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE EVENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84906272731     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12133     Document Type: Article

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