Functional diversity of small and large trees along secondary succession in a tropical dry forest

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Sanaphre Villanueva, Lucía ^a   Dupuy, Juan Manuel ^a   Andrade, José Luis ^a   Reyes García, Casandra ^a   Paz, Horacio ^b   Jackson, Paula C ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^c KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive exclusion; Environmental filtering; Null models; Plant functional traits; Topographic position; Yucatan

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY; COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION; CONDITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FILTERING; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; NULL MODEL; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAIT; TOPOGRAPHIC POSITIONS; YUCATAN;

FORESTRY;

ABIOTIC FACTOR; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DRY FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 84984697625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7080163     Document Type: Article

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