Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Erica Schwarz CARSON:“carson_index” — 2008/5/27 — 14:41 — page 504 — #14

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neutral theory, symmetric (Contd.)
a free parameter 145
master equation 146, 147
the metacommunity 145–6
parameterx146, 147
theoretical recipe 145–7
New Guinea, rainforests 442
Papua
complex web of operations 449–50
logging boom over last two decades 450
vast rainforests increasingly exploited 449
vertebrate fauna differs from Southeast Asia 449
Nicaragua, Hurricane Joan damaged-forests
direct regeneration 388
successional dynamics in 396–8
niche assembly theories 18–19
niche assembly vs. neutrality 154
niche concept 5
niche conservatism within tropical lineages 41
niche differentiation 197, 250
second axis of important for pioneer species
250–1
niche hyperspace 160, 174–5
biotic and abiotic factors important 175
nutrient and water availabilities 174
orthogonality of resource gradients/functional
traits 174
principal components analysis 174
species distribution in relation to topography 174
topography and creation of rare niches 175
niche partitioning 161, 192–3
niche theory 160
and competitive asymmetry 162
objected to by neutral theory 175
rank reversals
in fitness component between two environments
164
of multiple species between two environments
166–7B
observed in larger gaps 167
parametric and non-parametric approaches
167B
two alternative hypotheses
predict contrasting cross-species correlations
164, 166–7B
quantitative evaluations 164, 165
two types of trade-off 164
between two fitness components 164
high light growth vs. low light growth 164
survival and growth, response to light gradients
164, 165

niche-assembly hypothesis, and dynamics of BCI tree

community 156, 156

niche-assembly prediction, testing of 154, 155

niche-assembly theories 18–19, 18

biological filters 19

fundamental niche and realized niche 19

and resource use theory 19

emphasize physiological constraints on plants 25

physiological filters (stress) 18–19

niche-based mechanisms 161

niche-based processes 385

non-equilibrium theory 386

nucleation model 7, 368, 369 , 370, 379, 380

extension of relay floristics model 370

facilitation, producing expanding patches 378

facilitation-based model for stressful habitats 370

favorable microsites foci for woody species

establishment 378

general dynamics of early post-agricultural

succession 378

spatially explicit 370

a viable conceptual framework for tropical

succession? 378–9

nutrient conservation 128–30

nutrient cycling, by saprophytic fungi 254

ontogenic shifts and vertical light gradients 170–4

ordination methods

for detecting environmental correlations 17

ordination axes 17

used for testing neutral theory 17

organisms, influx of molecular data on 47

originality of a species 15

palms, can shed/avoid lianas 203

Panama 263

bimodal body size distributions, arboreal and

terrestrial ants 342

endophyte infection rates, mangrove species 259

endophytic fungi, species–area relationship in

Laetia thamnia260, 260

excluding birds from dry forest canopy 135

post-agriculturalSaccharumgrasslands 376 , 377

Panama dataset 21, 22

reanalyzed using ordination and distance matrix

approaches 22

conclusion supported by Mexican study 22–3

Panama ICBG, linking bioprospecting with

conservation 437–8