SEEDLING DENSITY DEPENDENCE PROMOTES COEXISTENCE OF BORNEAN RAIN FOREST TREES

Ecology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 2006-2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Campbell O. Webb ◽  
David R. Peart
Keyword(s):  
Density Dependence ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Trees ◽  
Seedling Density

Seedling recruitment failure following dipterocarp mast fruiting

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur G. Blundell ◽  
David R. Peart
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Seedling Recruitment ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Forest Trees ◽  
Seedling Density ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Recruitment Failure ◽  
Mast Fruiting ◽  
Seed Crops ◽  
Satiation Hypothesis

Many rain-forest trees in South-East Asia, including the dominant canopy family Dipterocarpaceae, reproduce in gregarious mast-fruiting events once every 2–11 y (Ashton et al. 1988). The dominant hypothesis for the evolution of masting is that predators are incapable of consuming mast seed crops, so that natural selection has favoured parent trees that fruit in synchrony (Janzen 1974, 1976). Mast flowering and fruiting are visually spectacular and quantified in harvest records for dipterocarp species producing large, oil-rich tengkawang seeds (Curran et al. 1999). Seedling recruitment following a mast is less obvious and has no immediate commercial value. However, a number of pulses of recruitment have been documented (Ashton et al. 1988, Chan 1980, Fox 1972, Liew & Wong 1973). These, together with general acceptance of the satiation hypothesis, have led to the widespread assumption that masts reliably increase seedling density and generate distinct seedling cohorts (Whitmore 1998). Indeed, foresters in Malaysia and Indonesia often recommend harvesting only after a mast, to ensure high densities of seedling regeneration.

scholarly journals Soil profile, relief features and their relation to structure and distribution of Brazilian Atlantic rain forest trees

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederico Augusto Guimarães Guilherme ◽  
Tiago Osório Ferreira ◽  
Marco Antonio Assis ◽  
Pablo Vidal Torrado ◽  
Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato
Keyword(s):  
Soil Profile ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Atlantic Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Trees

Multiple facets of rarity among rain forest trees in the Western Ghats of India

2018 ◽  
Vol 228 ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
Priya Davidar ◽  
François Munoz ◽  
Jean-Philippe Puyravaud ◽  
D. Mohandass ◽  
V.S. Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Forest Trees ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats

Australian Rain-Forest Trees

Soil Science ◽  
1931 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
W. D. FRANCIS
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Trees

Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density dependence in a lowland rain forest

2010 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mailyn A. Gonzalez ◽  
Aurélien Roger ◽  
Elodie A. Courtois ◽  
Franck Jabot ◽  
Natalia Norden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Density Dependence ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Tree Communities ◽  
Negative Density Dependence
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