Deciduousness influences the understory community in a semideciduous tropical forest

Biotropica

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 512-515

  Souza, Flaviana M ^a   Gandolfi, Sergius ^b   Rodrigues, Ricardo R ^b  

^a Department of Forest Ecology Forestry Institute   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Competition; Ecological filter; Ecological group; Facilitation; Light; Plant plant interaction; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906943655     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12137     Document Type: Article

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