scholarly journals How mammalian predation contributes to tropical tree community structure

Ecology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (12) ◽  
pp. 3326-3336 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Timothy Paine ◽  
Harald Beck ◽  
John Terborgh
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Tropical Tree ◽  
Tree Community

scholarly journals Changes in tree community structure in defaunated forests are not driven only by dispersal limitation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 3392-3401
Author(s):  
Kirstie Hazelwood ◽  
C. E. Timothy Paine ◽  
Fernando H. Cornejo Valverde ◽  
Elizabeth G. Pringle ◽  
Harald Beck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Dispersal Limitation ◽  
Tree Community

scholarly journals Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 520-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Guocheng Zhang ◽  
Xiuqin Ci ◽  
Nathan G. Swenson ◽  
Min Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Tropical Tree ◽  
Size Classes ◽  
Tree Community

Predicting Population Trends from Size Distributions: A Direct Test in a Tropical Tree Community

1998 ◽  
Vol 152 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Condit ◽  
R. Sukumar ◽  
Stephen P. Hubbell ◽  
Robin B. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Population Trends ◽  
Tropical Tree ◽  
Size Distributions ◽  
Direct Test ◽  
Tree Community

scholarly journals Effects of Topographical and Edaphic Factors on Tree Community Structure and Diversity of Subtropical Mountain Forests in the Lower Lancang River Basin

Forests ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changshun Zhang ◽  
Xiaoying Li ◽  
Long Chen ◽  
Gaodi Xie ◽  
Chunlan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Mountain Forests ◽  
Edaphic Factors ◽  
Lancang River ◽  
Tree Community

scholarly journals Beyond the fast-slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1075-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadja Rüger ◽  
Liza S. Comita ◽  
Richard Condit ◽  
Drew Purves ◽  
Benjamin Rosenbaum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Tree ◽  
Tree Community

scholarly journals Soil resources and topography shape local tree community structure in tropical forests

2013 ◽  
Vol 280 (1753) ◽  
pp. 20122532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire A. Baldeck ◽  
Kyle E. Harms ◽  
Joseph B. Yavitt ◽  
Robert John ◽  
Benjamin L. Turner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Variation Partitioning ◽  
Compositional Variation ◽  
Habitat Filtering ◽  
Soil Resources ◽  
Soil Resource ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Tree Community

Both habitat filtering and dispersal limitation influence the compositional structure of forest communities, but previous studies examining the relative contributions of these processes with variation partitioning have primarily used topography to represent the influence of the environment. Here, we bring together data on both topography and soil resource variation within eight large (24–50 ha) tropical forest plots, and use variation partitioning to decompose community compositional variation into fractions explained by spatial, soil resource and topographic variables. Both soil resources and topography account for significant and approximately equal variation in tree community composition (9–34% and 5–29%, respectively), and all environmental variables together explain 13–39% of compositional variation within a plot. A large fraction of variation (19–37%) was spatially structured, yet unexplained by the environment, suggesting an important role for dispersal processes and unmeasured environmental variables. For the majority of sites, adding soil resource variables to topography nearly doubled the inferred role of habitat filtering, accounting for variation in compositional structure that would previously have been attributable to dispersal. Our results, illustrated using a new graphical depiction of community structure within these plots, demonstrate the importance of small-scale environmental variation in shaping local community structure in diverse tropical forests around the globe.

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