Bark traits and life‐history strategies of tropical dry‐ and moist forest trees

Bark is crucial to trees because it protects their stems against fire and other hazards and because of its importance for assimilate transport, water relationships and repair. We evaluate size‐dependent changes in bark thickness for 50 woody species from a moist forest and 50 species from a dry fore...

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Published in:	Functional ecology Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 232 - 242
Main Authors:	Poorter, Lourens, McNeil, Adam, Hurtado, Victor‐Hugo, Prins, Herbert H. T, Putz, Francis E, Kitajima, Kaoru
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.02.2014 Wiley-Blackwell Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	adult stature allocation Animal and plant ecology Animal, plant and microbial ecology Autoecology Bark bark thickness Biological and medical sciences Bolivia carbohydrate storage colorado-island defence drought tolerance Dry forests Evolutionary ecology fire fires Forest ecology Forest fires Forest trees forest types Forestry Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects General forest ecology Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology Human ecology interspecific variation longevity lowland bolivia Moisture content Plant ecology prediction rain-forest shade tolerance Stems structural traits tropical forest Tropical forests water storage water stress wood wood density wood properties woody plants Bolivia Life history Dry forest allocation Wood defence Bark Forest tree Tropical forest shade tolerance Density Thickness adult stature Storage bark thickness water storage Fires wood density Strategy fire Sciaphyte
ISSN:	0269-8463, 1365-2435
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