Original paper
Buttresses of tropical forest trees and spatial competition
de Sloover, J. R.; Fagnant, M.
Phytocoenologia Band 24 Heft 1-4 (1994), p. 573 - 577
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published: Apr 8, 1994
DOI: 10.1127/phyto/24/1994/573
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Abstract
According to a hypothesis set up by Black & Harper (1979), buttresses of lowland tropical forest trees could also account for organs granting a higher competitive value. To test that hypothesis measures were taken in a forest on a coral cay off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. Results point out that on the average buttressed trees are a little more apart from their neighbours than unbuttressed ones and that consequently the number of neighbours was higher whatever the species may be.
Keywords
Forest trees • competition • buttresses