Physical damage to artificial seedlings in relation to distance from tropical forest edges

dc.contributor.authorSanchez-Thorin, Ana
dc.contributor.authorLaurance, William F.
dc.contributor.authorPerdomo, Catalina
dc.contributor.authorEwers, Robert Mark
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-15T19:30:37Z
dc.date.available2012-08-15T19:30:37Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractLitterfall can be a major cause of seedling mortality and damage in tropical forests, and is often elevated near forest edges. We predicted that, in Soberanía National Park in central Panama, the proportion of experimental seedlings damaged by litterfall would be higher at forest edges than in the forest interior. Over a 16-week period during the rainy season, 41% of 1260 experimental seedlings were damaged, but just 4% were clearly damaged by litterfall. We found no consistent trend in litterfall damage with respect to distance from edge, although there were higher proportions of total seedling damage in the forest interior which were caused by factors other than litterfall. Resumen. La hojarasca puede ser una de las causas más importantes en el daño y la mortalidad de plántulas en los bosques tropicales, y es frecuentemente más abundante en los bordes. Predijimos que en el Parque Nacional Soberanía en el centro de Panamá, la proporción de plántulas experimentales derribadas por hojarasca es más alta cerca del borde del bosque que en el interior. En un periodo de 16 semanas durante la estación lluviosa 41% de las plántulas fueron derribadas pero solo 4% a causa de la hojarasca. No encontramos un patrón consistente en el daño causado por la hojarasca con respecto a la distancia desde el borde, aunque se encontraron proporciones totales más altas de daño de plántulas en el interior del bosque, ocasionadas por otros factores
dc.format.extent161–166
dc.identifier.citationSanchez-Thorin, Ana, Laurance, William F., Perdomo, Catalina, and Ewers, Robert Mark. 2006. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/18783">Physical damage to artificial seedlings in relation to distance from tropical forest edges</a>." <em>Ecotropica</em>, 12, (2) 161–166.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10088/18783
dc.relation.ispartofEcotropica 12 (2)
dc.titlePhysical damage to artificial seedlings in relation to distance from tropical forest edges
dc.typearticle
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sro.identifier.itemID110856
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sro.identifier.urlhttps://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/18783

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