Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Chapter 11 COLONIZATION-RELATED TRADE-OFFSINTROPICAL FORESTSANDTHEIRROLEIN THEMAINTENANCEOFPLANT SPECIESDIVERSITY Helene C. Mull ...

Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests 183 this mechanism of coexistence, which shows that these trade-offs can pot ...

184 Helene C. Muller-Landau Perfectly equalizing Stabilizing Baseline (a) Abundance Per capita reproductive rate (b) (e) (g) (h) ...

Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests 185 way that tends to maintain diversity rather than lead to competitive exc ...

186 Helene C. Muller-Landau likely to win the site. Geritzet al. (1999) consider the evolutionary as well as ecological dynamics ...

Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests 187 better disperser is more successful in areas of low site density, enabli ...

188 Helene C. Muller-Landau models for patterns of recruitment success given patterns of seed arrival and environmental conditio ...

Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests 189 then evaluate the other types of evidence for each trade-off in turn. Se ...

190 Helene C. Muller-Landau light (Rose and Poorter 2002, Poorter and Rose 2005). While interspecific trait relationships appear ...

Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests 191 (Green and Juniper 2004a) and thus are more likely to be able to resprou ...

192 Helene C. Muller-Landau size – but there is little evidence regarding this hypothesized relationship. Further, because seeds ...

Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests 193 make possible some calculations of the role of colonization-related trad ...

194 Helene C. Muller-Landau Harms, K.E. and Dalling, J.W. (1997) Damage and her- bivory tolerance through resprouting as an adva ...

Colonization-related Trade-offs in Tropical Forests 195 Pacala, S.W. and Rees, M. (1998) Models suggesting field experiments to ...

Chapter 12 TREEFALLGAPSANDTHE MAINTENANCEOFPLANTSPECIES DIVERSITYINTROPICALFORESTS Stefan A. Schnitzer, Joseph Mascaro, and Walt ...

Treefall Gaps and Plant Species Diversity in Forests 197 foci for regeneration and succession in both tem- perate and tropical f ...

198 Stefan A. Schnitzeretal. (Putz 1984a, Vandermeeret al. 1996, 2000, Bond and Midgly 2001, Schnitzeret al. 2004). 4 From sprea ...

Treefall Gaps and Plant Species Diversity in Forests 199 Palms win Trees win Lianas win Palm-dominated low-canopy gap Palms and ...

200 Stefan A. Schnitzeretal. Figure 12.2 Lianas in the understory on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Photograph by S. Schnitzer ( ...

Treefall Gaps and Plant Species Diversity in Forests 201 (and thus microclimate), Brown (1993) argued that gap-size partitioning ...