Phylogenetic structure of a palm community in the central Amazon: changes along a hydro-edaphic gradient

Plant Ecology

Volumn 215, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1173-1185

  de Freitas, Cíntia Gomes ^a   de Sales Dambros, Cristian ^b   Eiserhardt, Wolf Lukas ^c   Costa, Flávia Regina Capellotto ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^c   Balslev, Henrik ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Community phylogenetic structure; Competition; Environmental filtering; Limiting similarity; Niche; Null models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939438855     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0376-1     Document Type: Article

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