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SHORT COMMUNICATION Inferring growth rates from leaf display in tropical forest saplings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2004

David A. King  and
David B. Clark
David A. King
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2477, USA
David B. Clark
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA
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Abstract

In temperate trees, the extension growth history of stems and branches is easily inferred from the positions of the rings of over-wintering bud-scale scars, allowing one to assess environmental responses from surveys of saplings (Beaudet & Messier 1998, Canham 1988, King 2001). But tropical trees rarely show such distinct demarcations of growth flushes. Furthermore, the frequency of flushing may vary with tree size and environment, and a number of tropical species, often light demanding, show continuous leaf production and extension growth throughout the year (Coley 1983).

Keywords

Costa Ricaleaf arrangementPanamatree growthtree morphologytropical rain forest
Type
Brief Report
Information
Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , May 2004 , pp. 351 - 354
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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