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- Title
Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities.
- Authors
Chave, Jérôme; Condit, Richard; Muller-Landau, Helene C; Thomas, Sean C; Ashton, Peter S; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Co, Leonardo L; Dattaraja, Handanakere S; Davies, Stuart J; Esufali, Shameema; Ewango, Corneille E. N; Feeley, Kenneth J; Foster, Robin B; Gunatilleke, Nimal; Gunatilleke, Savitri; Hall, Pamela; Hart, Terese B; Hernández, Consuelo; Hubbell, Stephen P; Itoh, Akira
- Abstract
An analysis of changes in biomass and primary productivity across ten large tropical forest plots revealed that aboveground biomass increased significantly, fast-growing species increased significantly in dominance at a single site, and slow-growing species increased significantly at half of our sites.
- Subjects
PLANT biomass; PRIMARY productivity (Biology); FORESTS &; forestry; BIOLOGICAL productivity; TREES
- Publication
PLoS Biology, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 3, pe45
- ISSN
1544-9173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.0060045