Successional changes in functional composition contrast for dry and wet tropical forest

Ecology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1211-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelon Lohbeck ◽  
Lourens Poorter ◽  
Edwin Lebrija-Trejos ◽  
Miguel Martínez-Ramos ◽  
Jorge A. Meave ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Functional Composition

Soils and rainfall drive landscape-scale changes in the diversity and functional composition of tree communities in premontane tropical forest

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 859-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia M. Prada ◽  
Arturo Morris ◽  
Kelly M. Andersen ◽  
Benjamin L. Turner ◽  
Pedro Caballero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Functional Composition ◽  
Tree Communities

Soil properties and neighbouring forest cover affect above-ground biomass and functional composition during tropical forest restoration

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Miazaki Toledo ◽  
Rozely Ferreira Santos ◽  
Lander Baeten ◽  
Michael P. Perring ◽  
Kris Verheyen
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Forest Restoration ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Functional Composition ◽  
Above Ground Biomass ◽  
Ground Biomass ◽  
Tropical Forest Restoration

scholarly journals Parallel functional and stoichiometric trait shifts in South-American and African forest communities with elevation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijn Bauters ◽  
Hans Verbeeck ◽  
Miro Demol ◽  
Stijn Bruneel ◽  
Cys Taveirne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Nitrogen Availability ◽  
Forest Composition ◽  
South American ◽  
Functional Composition ◽  
Elevational Gradients ◽  
Species Shift ◽  
Forest Biome

Abstract. Elevational gradients are an empirical tool to assess long-term forest responses to environmental change. We studied whether functional composition of tropical forest along elevational gradients in South America and in Africa showed similar shifts. We assessed community-weighted functional canopy traits and indicative δ15N shifts along two new altitudinal transects in the tropical forest biome of both South-America and Africa. We found that the functional forest composition response along both transects was parallel, with a species shift towards more nitrogen conservative species at higher elevations. Moreover, canopy and topsoil δ15N signals decreased with increasing altitude, suggesting a more conservative N cycle at higher elevations. This cross-continental study provides two empirical indications that both South-American and African tropical forest show a parallel response along altitude, driven by nitrogen availability along the altitudinal gradients, inducing a parallel shift in the functional forest composition. This highlights the importance of nutrient availability for tropical forest in a changing world. More standardized research, and more research on other elevational gradients is needed to confirm our observations.

Environmental filtering both indirectly and directly drives the Dry Tropical Forest species composition and functional composition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Moreira Gianasi ◽  
Cléber Rodrigo Souza ◽  
Nathalle Cristine Alencar Fagundes ◽  
Vinícius Andrade Maia ◽  
Jean Daniel Morel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Environmental Filtering ◽  
Functional Composition ◽  
Forest Species ◽  
Dry Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Species Composition
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