Flooding regime drives tree community structure in Neotropical dry forests

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1195-1205
Author(s):  
Felipe De Carvalho Araújo ◽  
David Yue Phin Tng ◽  
Deborah Mattos Guimaraes Apgaua ◽  
Jean Daniel Morel ◽  
Diego Gualberto Sales Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Dry Forests ◽  
Flooding Regime ◽  
Tree Community ◽  
Neotropical Dry Forests

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 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 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.

White-tailed deer as the last megafauna dispersing seeds in Neotropical dry forests: the role of fruit and seed traits

Biotropica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Jara-Guerrero ◽  
Gema Escribano-Avila ◽  
Carlos Iván Espinosa ◽  
Marcelino De la Cruz ◽  
Marcos Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Seed Traits ◽  
Dry Forests ◽  
Neotropical Dry Forests

Diversity in neotropical dry forests

Science ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 353 (6306) ◽  
pp. 1377-1377 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Sugden
Keyword(s):  
Dry Forests ◽  
Neotropical Dry Forests
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