Tropical Forest Community Ecology

162 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter Adult^100 10 1 012345 Cumulative LAI Anacardium excelsum Cecropia longipes 678 (a) (b) Sa ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 163 much lower than the percentage of light trans- mitted through early successional tree crowns ( ...

164 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter vary amon gspecies in a continuous manner (Augspurger 1984a). As a result, the abun- danc ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 165 Gap size (m^2 ) 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 Survival (%) 0 20 40 60 80 100 Light (% fu ...

166 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 167 The seedlin gsurvival data of Rose (2000; Figure 10.2a) across a large gradient of gap size sh ...

168 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter 9 9 5 (^25) 2 3 3 6 6 4 4 8 8 1 1 7 7 X X X X X X X X XX X X XX X XX XX X X X X X X X X X ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 169 applied to the latter dataset shows that the fre- quency of rank reversals was significantly l ...

170 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter alone. Most likely, such an equalizin geffect means greater importance of stochasticity o ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 171 small seeded, and they deploy their leaf area rapidly to become autotrophic (Kitajima 2002). I ...

172 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter et al. 2003). Indeed, species with slender stems and narrow crowns show a faster height-r ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 173 Crown exposure 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 Juvenile Adult Crown exposure10 m 1234 Crown ex ...

174 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter found between adult stature and juvenile light requirements (e.g., Poorteret al.2003, 200 ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 175 biomes, fire-related adaptations explain species distribution in relation to topography better ...

176 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter allocation patterns place a high priority on fast growth thrive in gaps, but such allocat ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 177 Chase, J.M. (2005) Towards a really unified theory for metacommunities.Functional Ecology19, 1 ...

178 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter Hammond, D.S. and Brown, V.K. (1998) Distur- bance, phenology and life-history characteri ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 179 Latham, R.E. (1992) Co-occurrin gtree species chan ge rank in seedlin gperformance with resour ...

180 Kaoru Kitajima and Lourens Poorter Ricklefs, R.E. (1977) Environmental heterogeneity and plant species diversity: a hypothes ...

Resource Niche and Trade-offs 181 Van Rheenen, H.M.P.J.B. (2005)The Role of Seed Trees and Seedling Regeneration for Species Mai ...