Biodiversity of West African forests: an ecological atlas of woody plant species.

By Lourens Poorter, Frans Bongers, F. Kouamé, W. Hawthorne. 2004

259 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Forestry

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1. Lourens Poorter
2. Frans Bongers
3. Stefan A. Schnitzer
4. J. Sommer
5. W. Barthlott

Citations in the corpus

• Disentangling above‐ and below‐ground competition between lianas and trees in a tropical forest (2005, background): “However, the forest receives some rain in most months and remains mostly evergreen throughout the year (Chatelain et al. 2004).”
• Deficiency in African plant distribution data - missing pieces of the puzzle (2006, methodology): “One method which does not depend on such a baseline is to calculate randomized curves of numbers of species in relation to numbers of samples (Prendergast et al ., 1993b; Wieringa & Poorter, 2003).”
• Floristic composition, structure and natural regeneration in a moist semi-deciduous forest following anthropogenic disturbances and plant invasion. (2009, methodology): “Identification was performed by a plant taxonomist aided by manuals and Floras (Hawthorne, 1990; Arbon- nier, 2004; Poorter et al., 2004; Hawthorne and Jongkind, 2006).”
• Diversity of Tropical Tree Seedling Responses to Drought (2007, background): “GRADIENTS OF DISTRIBUTION AND DIVERSITY of tropical forest species are strongly associated with gradients in annual rainfall and soil moisture availability (e.g., Gentry 1988, Swaine 1996, Bongers et al. 1999, Poorter et al. 2004).”
• Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species (2008, background): “ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR determining tree species richness (Gentry 1988, Poorter et al. 2004, ter Steege et al. 2006), composition (Hall & Swaine 1976, Bongers et al. 2004), and distribution (Bongers et al. 1999, Swaine 1996, Holmgren & Poorter 2007).”
• Patterns of tree species composition across tropical African forests (2014, background): “…with other studies (Guillaumet & Adjanohoun, 1971; Hall & Swaine, 1976, 1981; Poorter et al., 2004), our Wet-Moist West African cluster collapsed several forest types related to rainfall, for example the hyperwet forests dominated by evergreen species and centred on Liberia (Poorter et al., 2004).”