Regional distribution patterns in tropical forest: direct and indirect consequences of drought periods
Project
From 01/2010 to 12/2014Principal Investigator: Bettina Engelbrecht
Staff: Julian Gaviria, Delicia Pino Garay
Subproject 1: The role of herbivory for tree distributions across rainfall gradients
Doctoral Researcher:
Subproject 2: The role of nutrients for tree distributions across rainfall gradients
Doctoral Researcher:
The project is carried out at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
List of publications of this Project
Gaviria, J; Turner, B; Engelbrecht, BMJ: Drivers of tree species distribution across a tropical rainfall gradient, Ecosphere, 8(2) (2017), doi:10.1002/ecs2.1712 |
Gaviria, J; Engelbrecht, BMJ: Effects of drought, pest pressure and light availability on seedling establishment and growth: Their role for distribution of tree species across a tropical rainfall gradient, PLoS ONE, 10.1371/journal.pone.0143955 (2015), doi:DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0143955 |