Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Detto, Matteo ^a,b   Wright, S Joseph ^b   Calderón, Osvaldo ^b   Muller Landau, Helene C ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FRUITING; LEAF; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED PRODUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER DEMAND;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; FRUITING; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT SEED; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VAPOR PRESSURE; WARMING; WATER SUPPLY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLIMATE; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TIME FACTOR; TROPIC CLIMATE;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORESTS; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 85042769253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03306-9     Document Type: Article

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