Prevalence and strength of density-dependent tree recruitment

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2319-2327

  Zhu, Kai ^a,b,c   Woodall, Christopher W ^d   Monteiro, João V D ^e   Clark, James S ^a,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Density dependence; Diversity maintenance; Forest Inventory and Analysis; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Population dynamics; Recruitment; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWTH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE FOREST;

UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942275039     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1780.1     Document Type: Article

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