Temporal and Spatial Variation in the Phenology of Flowering and Fruiting in a Tropical Rainforest
Journal of EcologyPublished 1 December 1989
Paul D. Heideman
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These problems are addressed for flower and fruit abundance in six categories of forest plants in a weakly seasonal climate in a submontane forest in the mountains of southern Negros island, Philippines using a variety of statistical rests, including a new method for comparing proportional data from two sets of months.
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In this paper, some of these problems are addressed for flower and fruit abundance in six categories of forest plants in a weakly seasonal climate in a submontane forest in the mountains of southern Negros island, Philippines, using a variety of statistical rests, including a new method for comparing proportional data from two sets of months
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