Tropical Forest Community Ecology

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Chapter 1 ScopeoftheBookandKey Contributions Stefan A. Schnitzer and Walter P. Carson Tropical forests are vastly complex system ...

4 Stefan A. Schnitzer and Walter P. Carson contrasting patterns of beta-diversity among regions. For example, Chave points out h ...

Scope of the Book and Key Contributions 5 make predictions that are consistent with patterns of tree species abundance and diver ...

6 Stefan A. Schnitzer and Walter P. Carson ANIMAL COMMUNITY ECOLOGY AND TROPHIC INTERACTIONS Although community-level theories i ...

Scope of the Book and Key Contributions 7 regions because these models place too little emphasis on propagule limitation and fac ...

8 Stefan A. Schnitzer and Walter P. Carson yet unresolved issues in the field. We hope that this volume stimulates additional re ...

Section 2 LARGE-SCALEPATTERNSIN TROPICALCOMMUNITIES ...

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Chapter 2 SPATIALVARIATIONINTREE SPECIESCOMPOSITIONACROSS TROPICALFORESTS:PATTERN ANDPROCESS Jérôme Chave OVERVIEW Understandin ...

12 Jérôme Chave at various spatial scales (Levin 1992, Huston 1999, Mouquet and Loreau 2003, Ricklefs 2004). Historically, howev ...

Spatial Variation in Tree Species Composition 13 compare only equal-sized subsamples, a method called “rarefaction” (Hurlbert 19 ...

14 Jérôme Chave acb Plot A Plot B Figure 2.1 Various ways of measurin gthe species overlap between two sites, plot A and plot B. ...

Spatial Variation in Tree Species Composition 15 populations, excludin gintra-population diversity, would be (see also Lande 199 ...

16 Jérôme Chave rely heavily on complex statistical concepts and it is very easy to get lost along the way. Here I try to avoid ...

Spatial Variation in Tree Species Composition 17 clayey (Sabatieret al.1997, Clarket al. 1999a), ridge, valley, or mid-slope (Ha ...

18 Jérôme Chave provide an evaluation of the relative importance of dispersal and of environment in the shapin gof beta-diversit ...

Spatial Variation in Tree Species Composition 19 they live in, a mechanism that would indirectly lead to habitat specialization ...

20 Jérôme Chave beta-diversity of tropical trees usin gtheoretical results from population genetics (Malécot 1948). Let us consi ...

Spatial Variation in Tree Species Composition 21 the mid-1990s. Terborghet al.’s (1996) test of Hubbell’s (1979) non-equilibrium ...