Assessing evidence for a pervasive alteration in tropical tree communities.

Assessing evidence for a pervasive alteration in tropical tree communities.

In Amazonian tropical forests, recent studies have reported increases in aboveground biomass and in primary productivity, as well as shifts in plant species composition favouring fast-growing species over slow-growing ones. This pervasive alteration of mature tropical forests was attributed to globa...

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Main Authors: Jérôme Chave, Richard Condit, Helene C Muller-Landau, Sean C Thomas, Peter S Ashton, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Leonardo L Co, Handanakere S Dattaraja, Stuart J Davies, Shameema Esufali, Corneille E N Ewango, Kenneth J Feeley, Robin B Foster, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Pamela Hall, Terese B Hart, Consuelo Hernández, Stephen P Hubbell, Akira Itoh, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, James V Lafrankie, Suzanne Loo de Lao, Jean-Rémy Makana, Md Nur Supardi Noor, Abdul Rahman Kassim, Cristián Samper, Raman Sukumar, Hebbalalu S Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Jill Thompson, Ma Dolores C Tongco, Renato Valencia, Martha Vallejo, Gorky Villa, Takuo Yamakura, Jess K Zimmerman, Elizabeth C Losos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2270308?pdf=render

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