Tropical Tree Communities: A Test of the Nonequilibrium Hypothesis

We have conducted a test of Hubbell's nonequilibrium model of tropical forest dynamics and found that it fails to account for high levels of compositional similarity in disjunct samples of floodplain forest in the Manu River basin of southeastern Peru. In describing how the composition of a tro...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ecology. - Duke University Press. - 77(1996), 2, Seite 561-567
1. Verfasser: Terborgh, John (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Foster, Robin B., Nuñez, Percy
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1996
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Ecology
Schlagworte:Amazon community ecology meander belt nonequilibrium hypothesis Perú primary succession tropical forests tropical tree communities Physical sciences Biological sciences