Response of demographic rates of tropical trees to light availability: can position-based competition indices replace information from canopy census data?

For trees in tropical forests, competition for light is thought to be a central process that offers opportunities for niche differentiation through light gradient partitioning. In previous studies, a canopy index based on three-dimensional canopy census data has been shown to be a good predictor of...

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Main Authors: Steffi Grote, Richard Condit, Stephen Hubbell, Christian Wirth, Nadja Rüger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3855810?pdf=render