Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Table 7.1 Continued Center forTropical ForestScience program Collaboratinginstitutions Year initiatedand censusescompleted Plot ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 103 any other; its sixth census in 2005 marked a total of 25 years of inve ...

104 Jess K. Zimmermanetal. 0.000001 0.00001 0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 Rank abundance Proportional abundance Luquillo Sinharaja BCI ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 105 ? 3 2 1 (a) (b) Veil line ? Pasoh 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 0 1 2 3 4 ...

106 Jess K. Zimmermanetal. theory, as seen in the example for the Pasoh plot (Figure 7.2b). The ability of neutral theory to res ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 107 of seedlings near to the parent trees, while a rela- tively small numb ...

108 Jess K. Zimmermanetal. The recent work of Willset al. (2006) makes it clear that a rare species advantage may oper- ate in m ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 109 Distance (m) 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 No. of seedlings produced per 30 cm db ...

110 Jess K. Zimmermanetal. of individuals 1–4 cm dbh for 108 tree and shrub species, with respect to low (i.e., gaps) versus hig ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 111 does not suggest two distinct groups of species, conforming to “pionee ...

112 Jess K. Zimmermanetal. was a key factor in the maintenance of diversity of trees and shrubs in tropical forests (e.g., Grubb ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 113 a particular mechanism, even phenomenologi- cal, will eventually allow ...

114 Jess K. Zimmermanetal. on the manuscript. Helene Muller-Landau, Egbert Leigh, and Walter Carson deserve special thanks for t ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 115 on seedling community structure and composition in a permanent forest ...

116 Jess K. Zimmermanetal. Losos, E. and Leigh, E.G. (eds) (2004)Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism:Findings from a Large-Sc ...

Testing Explanations for Species Diversity using FDPs 117 Tilman, D. (1999) Diversity by default.Science283, 495–496. Uriarte, M ...

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Section3 TESTING THEORIES OF FOREST REGENERATION AND THE MAINTENANCE OF SPECIES DIVERSITY ...

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Chapter 8 Tropical Forest Ecology: Sterile or Virgin for Theoreticians? EgbertG.Leigh,Jr OVERVIEW Trees interact primarily with ...