Large-scale patterns of turnover and basal area change in Andean forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Báez, Selene ^a,b   Malizia, Agustina ^c,d   Carilla, Julieta ^c,d   Blundo, Cecilia ^c,d   Aguilar, Manuel ^e   Aguirre, Nikolay ^f   Aquirre, Zhofre ^f   Álvarez, Esteban ^g   Cuesta, Francisco ^a   Duque, Álvaro ^h   Farfán Ríos, William ⁱ   García Cabrera, Karina ⁱ   Grau, Ricardo ^c   Homeier, Jürgen ^j   Linares Palomino, Reynaldo ^e   Malizia, Lucio R ^k,l   Cruz, Omar Melo ^m   Osinaga, Oriana ^d   Phillips, Oliver L ⁿ   Reynel, Carlos ^e   Silman, Miles R ⁱ   Feeley, Kenneth J ^o   more..

^a Biodiversity Department Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregión Andina   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^c Consejo Nacional de Ciencias de Investigaciones Científicas Y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^g Laboratorio de Servicios Ecosistémicos Y Cambio Climático Jardín Botánico de Medellín   (Colombia)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE JUJUY   (Argentina)

^l Fundación ProYungas   (Argentina)

^m UNIVERSIDAD DEL TOLIMA   (Colombia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^o FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TREE GROWTH; BIODIVERSITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; LINEAR MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84929353154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126594     Document Type: Article

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