Resprouting as a persistence strategy of tropical forest trees: relations with carbohydrate storage and shade tolerance

Resprouting is an important persistence strategy for woody species and represents a dominant pathway of regeneration in many plant communities, with potentially large consequences for vegetation dynamics, community composition, and species coexistence. Most of our knowledge of resprouting strategies...

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Published in:	Ecology (Durham) Vol. 91; no. 9; pp. 2613 - 2627
Main Authors:	Poorter, Lourens, Kitajima, Kaoru, Mercado, Pablo, Chubiña, Jose, Melgar, Israel, Prins, Herbert H. T
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC Ecological Society of America 01.09.2010
Subjects:	allocation Animal and plant ecology Animal, plant and microbial ecology Biological and medical sciences Bolivia Carbohydrates Carbohydrates - physiology coevolution Coexistence Community composition community structure Deciduous forests disturbance dry forest Dry forests Ecology Ecosystem field experimentation Flowers & plants Forest ecology Forest growth Forest regeneration Forest trees Forestry functional traits Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology fungi General aspects General forest ecology Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology growth growth-survival trade-off interspecific variation leaf size leaf traits leaves life-history variation Light light requirements pathogens phylogeny Plant communities Plant Development Plant ecology Plant growth Planting density Plants rain-forest Rainforests resprouting Saplings seedling survival shade tolerance Survival Time Factors total nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) Trees Trees - physiology Tropical Climate Tropical forests tropical rain forest Understory Vegetation Water Wood Wood - physiology wood density woody plants South America Bolivia America disturbance Dry forest Growth Forest tree Tropical rain forest Regrowth Plant leaf Tropical forest shade tolerance Perturbation Bolivia Survival Persistence Storage wood density Nonstructural carbohydrate Strategy leaf size total nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) Morphometry resprouting Sciaphyte growth-survival trade-off
ISSN:	0012-9658, 1939-9170
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