Positive effects of neighborhood complementarity on tree growth in a Neotropical forest

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 776-785

  Chen, Yuxin ^a   Wright, S Joseph ^b   Muller Landau, Helene C ^b   Hubbell, Stephen P ^b,c   Wang, Yongfan ^a   Yu, Shixiao ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Complementarity; Individual based method; Neighborhood dissimilarity; Phylogeny; Plant functional trait; Productivity; Shade tolerance

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYLOGENY; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES;

EID: 84962119055     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0625.1     Document Type: Article

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