LIFE HISTORY DIFFERENCES AND TREE SPECIES COEXISTENCE IN AN OLD-GROWTH NEW ZEALAND RAIN FOREST

Ecology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 795-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher H. Lusk ◽  
Benjamin Smith
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Species Coexistence ◽  
Old Growth

Ecological processes maintaining differential tree species distributions in an Australian subtropical rain forest: implications for models of species coexistence

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Debski ◽  
David F. R. P. Burslem ◽  
David Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Species Coexistence ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Size Class ◽  
Differential Mortality ◽  
Mixed Composition ◽  
Large Scale Disturbance

All stems ≥ 1 cm dbh were measured, tagged, mapped and identified on a 1-ha plot of rain forest at Gambubal State Forest, south-east Queensland, Australia. The spatial patterns and size class distributions of 11 common tree species on the plot were assessed to search for mechanisms determining their distribution and abundance. The forest was species-poor in comparison to many lowland tropical forests and the common species are therefore present at relatively high densities. Despite this, only limited evidence was found for the operation of density-dependent processes at Gambubal. Daphnandra micrantha saplings were clumped towards randomly spaced adults, indicating a shift of distribution over time caused by differential mortality of saplings in these adult associated clumps. Ordination of the species composition in 25-m × 25-m subplots revealed vegetation gradients at that scale, which corresponded to slope across the plot. Adult basal area was dominated by a few large individuals of Sloanea woollsii but the comparative size class distributions and replacement probabilities of the 11 common species suggest that the forest will undergo a transition to a more mixed composition if current conditions persist. The current cohort of large S. woollsii individuals probably established after a large-scale disturbance event and the forest has not attained an equilibrium species composition.

Gap-phase dynamics and coexistence of a long-lived pioneer and shade-tolerant tree species in the canopy of an old-growth coastal temperate rain forest of Chiloé Island, Chile

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1674-1687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro G. Gutiérrez ◽  
Juan Carlos Aravena ◽  
Natalia V. Carrasco-Farías ◽  
Duncan A. Christie ◽  
Mauricio Fuentes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Phase Dynamics ◽  
Temperate Rain Forest ◽  
Gap Phase

Natural disturbance and tree species coexistence in an old-growth beech - dwarf bamboo forest, southwestern Japan

1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 875-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-Ichi Yamamoto ◽  
Naoyuki Nishimura ◽  
Kiyoshi Matsui
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Species Coexistence ◽  
Natural Disturbance ◽  
Dwarf Bamboo ◽  
Bamboo Forest ◽  
Old Growth

scholarly journals Neighbourhood-based evidence of tree diversity promotion by beech in an old-growth deciduousconiferous mixed forest (Eastern Carpathians)

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Dan Gafta ◽  
Annik Schnitzler ◽  
Déborah Closset-Kopp ◽  
Vasile Cristea
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Species Coexistence ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
Tree Diversity ◽  
Point Pattern ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Individual Tree ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
The Individual

Neighbourhood models are useful tools for understanding the role of positive and negative interactions in maintaining the tree species diversity in mixed forests. Under such a presumption, we aimed at testing several hypotheses concerning the mechanisms of autogenic species coexistence in an old-growth, beech-fir-spruce stand, which is part of the Slătioara forest reserve (Eastern Carpathians). Univariate/bivariate spatial point pattern analyses, the individual tree species-area relationship, the species mingling analysis and generalised linear mixed models of neighbour interference were applied on data concerning the position and allometry of all saplings and trees occurring within a 0.24 ha plot. The monospecific distribution of either beech or spruce saplings did not support the spatial segregation hypothesis. There was no evidence of conspecific negative distance dependence, as no spatial segregation was detected between the saplings and trees of any species. Within 4 m-neighbourhood, the beech saplings appeared as diversity accumulators, which might be indicative of indirect facilitation (e.g., herd protection hypothesis). At tree stage, none of the three species showed either accumulator or repeller patterns in their neighbourhood with respect to sapling species richness. Signals of positive and negative interspecific association were found in tree-sized beech (at scales of 10 to 20 m) and spruce (at scales of 4 to 17 m), respectively. The former, highly interspersed pattern is in accordance with the hypothesis of positive complementary effects, whereas the latter, poorly intermingled pattern is probably linked to the unexpected, positive neighbouring effect of spruce trees on the stem growth of their conspecific saplings. Such self-favouring process might be due to a facilitative below-ground mechanism. Conversely, the beech saplings were suppressed through interference from the neighbouring conspecific trees. The beech appears to be the key promoter of tree species coexistence in the study forest stand, in contrast to the low interspersion of spruce in the overstorey leading to lower local tree diversity.

Regeneration patterns and tree species coexistence in old-growth Abies–Picea forests in southwestern China

2006 ◽  
Vol 223 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan H. Taylor ◽  
Jang Shi Wei ◽  
Zhao Lian Jun ◽  
Liang Chun Ping ◽  
Miao Chang Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Species Coexistence ◽  
Southwestern China ◽  
Old Growth

The importance of wood density in determining the phenology of tree species in a coastal rain forest

Biotropica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Gomes Galvão ◽  
André Luiz Alves de Lima ◽  
Clemir Candeia de Oliveira ◽  
Valdemir Fernando Silva ◽  
Maria Jesus Nogueira Rodal
Keyword(s):  
Wood Density ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest
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