scholarly journals Plant traits predict inter- and intraspecific variation in susceptibility to herbivory in a hyperdiverse Neotropical rain forest tree community

2014 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 939-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael E. Cárdenas ◽  
Renato Valencia ◽  
Nathan J. B. Kraft ◽  
Adriana Argoti ◽  
Olivier Dangles
Keyword(s):  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Plant Traits ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Tree Community ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

scholarly journals Plant herbivory responses through changes in leaf quality have no effect on subsequent leaf‐litter decomposition in a neotropical rain forest tree community

2015 ◽  
Vol 207 (3) ◽  
pp. 817-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael E. Cárdenas ◽  
Stephan Hättenschwiler ◽  
Renato Valencia ◽  
Adriana Argoti ◽  
Olivier Dangles
Keyword(s):  
Leaf Litter ◽  
Litter Decomposition ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Leaf Litter Decomposition ◽  
Leaf Quality ◽  
Tree Community ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

scholarly journals Ficus insipida subsp. insipida (Moraceae) reveals the role of ecology in the phylogeography of widespread Neotropical rain forest tree species

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1697-1709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado ◽  
Kyle G. Dexter ◽  
Monica F. Poelchau ◽  
Peter M. Hollingsworth ◽  
Oliver L. Phillips ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Forest Tree Species ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

scholarly journals Dispersal assembly of rain forest tree communities across the Amazon basin

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (10) ◽  
pp. 2645-2650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle G. Dexter ◽  
Mathew Lavin ◽  
Benjamin M. Torke ◽  
Alex D. Twyford ◽  
Thomas A. Kursar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Phylogenetic Structure ◽  
Neotropical Tree ◽  
Tree Community ◽  
Tree Communities

We investigate patterns of historical assembly of tree communities across Amazonia using a newly developed phylogeny for the species-rich neotropical tree genusInga. We compare our results with those for three other ecologically important, diverse, and abundant Amazonian tree lineages,Swartzia, Protieae, andGuatteria. Our analyses using phylogenetic diversity metrics demonstrate a clear lack of geographic phylogenetic structure, and show that local communities ofIngaand regional communities of all four lineages are assembled by dispersal across Amazonia. The importance of dispersal in the biogeography ofIngaand other tree genera in Amazonian and Guianan rain forests suggests that speciation is not driven by vicariance, and that allopatric isolation following dispersal may be involved in the speciation process. A clear implication of these results is that over evolutionary timescales, the metacommunity for any local or regional tree community in the Amazon is the entire Amazon basin.

scholarly journals Prevalence of phylogenetic clustering at multiple scales in an African rain forest tree community

2014 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 1008-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Parmentier ◽  
Maxime Réjou-Méchain ◽  
Jérôme Chave ◽  
Jason Vleminckx ◽  
Duncan W. Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Phylogenetic Clustering ◽  
Tree Community

Irradiance and Spectral Quality Affect Asian Tropical Rain Forest Tree Seedling Development

Ecology ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 568-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Lee ◽  
Krishnapillay Baskaran ◽  
Marzalina Mansor ◽  
Haris Mohamad ◽  
Son Kheong Yap
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Seedling Development ◽  
Spectral Quality ◽  
Tree Seedling

Life History Diversity of Canopy and Emergent Trees in a Neotropical Rain Forest

1992 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Clark ◽  
David B. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

Ecological and isotopic discrimination of syntopic rodents in a neotropical rain forest of French Guiana

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Mauffrey ◽  
François Catzeflis
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotopes ◽  
Isotopic Composition ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
Carbon Isotope Ratios ◽  
Photosynthetic Pathways ◽  
Feeding Process ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

Stable isotopes are commonly used in ecological studies to infer food resources (Ambrose & DeNiro 1986, Bocherens et al. 1990,1991,1994;Yoshinaga et al. 1991) since isotopic composition is conserved during the feeding process. Moreover,for herbivorous (sensu lato) species, it is often possible to identify the main resource because different photosynthetic pathways generate different values of carbon isotope ratios (Park & Epstein 1961, Sternberg et al. 1984). This allows the characterization of broad biota such as savannas or forest and discrimination of grazers from sympatric folivorous species (DeNiro & Epstein 1978).

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