Environmental filtering, local site factors and landscape context drive changes in functional trait composition during tropical forest succession

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 24, Issue , 2017, Pages 37-47

  Boukili, Vanessa K ^a   Chazdon, Robin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Environmental filtering; La Selva Biological Station; Natural regeneration; Second growth forests; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSEMBLY RULE; BASAL AREA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGENERATION; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION; LIMON;

EID: 85008191016     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2016.11.003     Document Type: Article

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