Tropical Forest Community Ecology

382 Chris J. Peterson and Walter P. Carson Harcombe, P.A. (1977) The influence of fertilization on some aspects of succession in ...

Constraints on Succession 383 Pickett, S.T.A., Collins, S.L., and Armesto, J.J. (1987) Models, mechanisms, and pathways of succe ...

Chapter 23 ChanceandDeterminismin TropicalForestSuccession Robin L. Chazdon OVERVIEW Based on chronosequence studies and permane ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 385 A major challenge in studies of tropical forest successional dynamics i ...

386 Robin L. Chazdon discussion of successional theory, as it applies to forest succession. I then describe the basic framework ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 387 Three conceptual frameworks have been applied to studies of vegetation ...

388 Robin L. Chazdon Kammesheidt 1998). Resproutin gis the most common form of early plant establishment in swidden fallows (Uhl ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 389 death of canopy trees creates gaps, increasing resource availability fo ...

390 Robin L. Chazdon for secondary forests in northeastern Costa Rica. Over time, these processes lead to the lon gunder- story ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 391 (^12) (^34) (^56) LS (15) LEP (23) 0 CR (28) 10 20 30 40 50 60 Size cla ...

392 Robin L. Chazdon of forest succession in the Bolivian Amazon, based on two chronosequences followin gshift- in gcultivation, ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 393 in a sample (Chazdonet al.1999, Gotelli and Colwell 2001). Indices of s ...

394 Robin L. Chazdon species to reach these size classes. Usin gsample- based rarefaction curves, Guariguataet al.(1997) found t ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 395 animal-dispersed species, but not for two wind- dispersed species (Howl ...

396 Robin L. Chazdon showed decreasin gabundance of shrubs and lianas and increasin gabundance of canopy and understory palms ov ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 397 Vandermeeret al.(2000) monitored annual changes in species richness of ...

398 Robin L. Chazdon smaller size classes (<10 cm dbh) durin gthe stand initiation phase and decrease as stands enter the und ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 399 recruitment of light-demanding species (Denslow 1987, Hubbellet al.1999 ...

400 Robin L. Chazdon many old-growth forests recruit poorly, even in canopy gaps (Aubréville 1938, Jones 1956). More than 20% of ...

Chance and Determinism in Tropical Forest Succession 401 be no surprise, therefore, that the process of transformation from a ma ...