Seedling functional types in a lowland rain forest in Mexico

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (10) ◽  
pp. 1801-1812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez ◽  
Miguel Martínez Ramos ◽  
Ken Oyama
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Functional Types

Community assembly during recovery of tropical lowland rain forest from abandoned shift-ing cultivation lands on Hainan Island, China

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 415-426
Author(s):  
Yun-Feng HUANG ◽  
Xing-Hui LU ◽  
Run-Guo ZANG ◽  
Yi DING ◽  
Wen-Xing LONG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Assembly ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Hainan Island ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Lowland ◽  
Tropical Lowland Rain Forest

Ants accelerate litter decomposition in a Costa Rican lowland tropical rain forest

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 437-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence P. McGlynn ◽  
Evan K. Poirson
Keyword(s):  
Mass Loss ◽  
Leaf Litter ◽  
Litter Decomposition ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Food Web Structure ◽  
Litter Bags ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest

Abstract:The decomposition of leaf litter is governed, in part, by litter invertebrates. In tropical rain forests, ants are dominant predators in the leaf litter and may alter litter decomposition through the action of a top-down control of food web structure. The role of ants in litter decomposition was investigated in a Costa Rican lowland rain forest with two experiments. In a mesocosm experiment, we manipulated ant presence in 50 ambient leaf-litter mesocosms. In a litterbag gradient experiment, Cecropia obtusifolia litter was used to measure decomposition rate constants across gradients in nutrients, ant density and richness, with 27 separate litterbag treatments for total arthropod exclusion or partial arthropod exclusion. After 2 mo, mass loss in mesocosms containing ants was 30.9%, significantly greater than the 23.5% mass loss in mesocosms without ants. In the litter bags with all arthropods excluded, decomposition was best accounted by the carbon: phosphorus content of soil (r2 = 0.41). In litter bags permitting smaller arthropods but excluding ants, decomposition was best explained by the local biomass of ants in the vicinity of the litter bags (r2 = 0.50). Once the microarthropod prey of ants are permitted to enter litterbags, the biomass of ants near the litterbags overtakes soil chemistry as the regulator of decomposition. In concert, these results support a working hypothesis that litter-dwelling ants are responsible for accelerating litter decomposition in lowland tropical rain forests.

Yams and megapode mounds in the lowland rain forest of Papua New Guinea

Human Ecology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Dwyer ◽  
Monica Minnegal
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest

Diversity and vertical distribution of epiphytic liverworts in lowland rain forest and lowland cloud forest of French Guiana

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Gehrig-Downie ◽  
André Obregon ◽  
Jörg Bendix ◽  
Robbert Gradstein
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Distribution ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest

Seed mass and light requirements for regeneration in Southeast Asian rain forest

1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 817-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Metcalfe ◽  
P. J. Grubb
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Seed Mass ◽  
Primary Forest ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Light Requirement ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Light Requirements ◽  
Shade Tolerant Species

Seed mass values are given for 140 species of primary lowland rain forest and associated secondary forests in Singapore. Among shade-tolerant species of primary forest there is a trend for a decrease in mean seed mass with tall trees > woody climbers > small trees > shrubs > herbs; the differences between tall trees and small trees or shrubs or herbs, and between herbs and small trees or woody climbers are significant. There are a few light-demanding herbs or shrubs in the primary forest; among small trees, light demanders have significantly lower seed mass values than shade tolerators. In 9 out of 13 comparisons within taxa including both shade tolerants and light demanders the former had appreciably larger seeds than the latter. Two out of 13 comparisons involved very small seeded shade tolerators, and one a notably large-seed light demander. Many shade-tolerant herbs, shrubs, and trees have seed mass values much smaller than those of trees of secondary forest conventionally regarded as small seeded, and exploit moist, litter-free sites, e.g., steep microslopes. The trees of secondary forests on degraded soils do not differ significantly in seed mass from those on nondegraded soils. Key words: seed mass, light requirement, regeneration, tropical rain forest, phylogenetic analysis.

scholarly journals Codonoboea (Gesneriaceae) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, including three new species

PhytoKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Ruth Kiew ◽  
Chung-Lu Lim
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Montane Forest ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The State ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
Three New Species

Of the 92 Codonoboea species that occur in Peninsular Malaysia, 20 are recorded from the state of Terengganu, of which 9 are endemic to Terengganu including three new species, C. norakhirrudiniana Kiew, C. rheophytica Kiew and C. sallehuddiniana C.L.Lim, that are here described and illustrated. A key and checklist to all the Terengganu species are provided. The majority of species grow in lowland rain forest, amongst which C. densifolia and C. rheophytica are rheophytic. Only four grow in montane forest. The flora of Terengganu is still incompletely known, especially in the northern part of the state and in mountainous areas and so, with botanical exploration, more new species can be expected in this speciose genus.

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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