Dwarf palms and cyclanths strongly reduce Neotropical seedling recruitment

Oikos

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 619-633

  Wang, Yung Ho ^a,b   Augspurger, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Dept of Plant Biology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8744237072     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13328.x     Document Type: Article

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