Are the dynamics of tropical forests dominated by large and rare disturbance events?

Autor: Lloyd J; School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. j.lloyd@leeds.ac.uk, Gloor EU, Lewis SL
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecology letters [Ecol Lett] 2009 Dec; Vol. 12 (12), pp. E19-21; discussion E22-5.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01326.x
Abstrakt: A recent Ecology Letters paper of Fisher et al. (2008) utilized a modelling framework to investigate disturbance effects on forest biomass dynamics. But it contains serious methodological and conceptual errors. Associated conclusions are unlikely to be correct.
Databáze: MEDLINE