A trait-mediated, neighbourhood approach to quantify climate impacts on successional dynamics of tropical rainforests

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 157-167

  Uriarte, María ^a   Lasky, Jesse R ^a   Boukili, Vanessa K ^b   Chazdon, Robin L ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Functional traits; Second growth forests; Secondary tropical forests; Successional trajectories; Tree demography; Warming

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOREST COVER; GROWTH RATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84958953233     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12576     Document Type: Article

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