Spatial and temporal variation of carbon stocks in a lowland tropical forest in West Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 289 ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Lindsell ◽  
Erik Klop
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Carbon Stocks ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Lowland Tropical Forest

scholarly journals Drivers of aboveground wood production in a lowland tropical forest of West Africa: teasing apart the roles of tree density, tree diversity, soil phosphorus, and historical logging

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 4004-4017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Jucker ◽  
Aida Cuni Sanchez ◽  
Jeremy A. Lindsell ◽  
Harriet D. Allen ◽  
Gabriel S. Amable ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Soil Phosphorus ◽  
Tree Diversity ◽  
Tree Density ◽  
Wood Production ◽  
Lowland Tropical Forest

scholarly journals What drives the spatial distribution and dynamics of local species richness in tropical forest?

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1863) ◽  
pp. 20171503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorsten Wiegand ◽  
Felix May ◽  
Martin Kazmierczak ◽  
Andreas Huth
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Temporal Variability ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Neutral Theory ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Demographic Stochasticity ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Understanding the structure and dynamics of highly diverse tropical forests is challenging. Here we investigate the factors that drive the spatio-temporal variation of local tree numbers and species richness in a tropical forest (including 1250 plots of 20 × 20 m 2 ). To this end, we use a series of dynamic models that are built around the local spatial variation of mortality and recruitment rates, and ask which combination of processes can explain the observed spatial and temporal variation in tree and species numbers. We find that processes not included in classical neutral theory are needed to explain these fundamental patterns of the observed local forest dynamics. We identified a large spatio-temporal variability in the local number of recruits as the main missing mechanism, whereas variability of mortality rates contributed to a lesser extent. We also found that local tree numbers stabilize at typical values which can be explained by a simple analytical model. Our study emphasized the importance of spatio-temporal variability in recruitment beyond demographic stochasticity for explaining the local heterogeneity of tropical forests.

Spatial and temporal variation of soil organic carbon stocks in a lake retreat area of the Ethiopian Rift Valley

Geoderma ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 146 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Nyssen ◽  
Habtamu Temesgen ◽  
Mulugeta Lemenih ◽  
Amanuel Zenebe ◽  
Nigussie Haregeweyn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon ◽  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Rift Valley ◽  
Carbon Stocks ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Ethiopian Rift ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon Stocks

scholarly journals Spatial and temporal variation of biomass in a tropical forest: results from a large census plot in Panama

2003 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Chave ◽  
Richard Condit ◽  
Suzanne Lao ◽  
John P. Caspersen ◽  
Robin B. Foster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation
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