Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories

Biotropica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 780-797

  Uriarte, María ^a   Schwartz, Naomi ^a   Powers, Jennifer S ^b   Marín Spiotta, Erika ^c   Liao, Wenying ^a   Werden, Leland K ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; fire; hurricanes; regrowth forests; warming

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST FIRE; HURRICANE; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84995973234     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12380     Document Type: Review

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