Epiphyte Biomass and Nutrient Capital of a Neotropical Elfin Forest
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Biotropica
- Vol. 16 (4) , 249-256
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2387932
Abstract
The epiphyte communities of a Costa Rican cloud forest make up a conspicuous portion of the canopy, especially on large canopy dominants. Non-destructive sampli...This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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