Density and diversity of lianas along a chronosequence in a central Panamanian lowland forest

By S. DeWalt, Stefan A. Schnitzer, J. Denslow. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses 1 (2006, background): “…conducted in seasonally dry and successional forests have opted for relatively small diameter thresholds (e.g., 0.1 cm, Bullock 1990; 0.5 cm, DeWalt et al. 2000) because small diameter lianas reach the relatively low canopies of these forests and because these forest types have few large…”
Liana habitat associations and community structure in a Bornean lowland tropical forest (2006, methodology): “We measured the diameter of all lianas rooted in plots that were ‡0.5-cm diameter and growing ‡1.3 m in height at some point, following the method of DeWalt et al. (2000) .”
Liana diversity, abundance, and mortality in a tropical wet forest in Costa Rica (2004, background): “Ecol., 16 (2000), pp. 1-19 Gardette, 1996 Gardette, E., 1996.”
Spatial and temporal variation of biomass in a tropical forest: results from a large census plot in Panama (2003, result): “This is close to the values given in DeWalt et al. (2000) for two transects in the old-growth forests of BCI (6.46 and 4.33 Mg ha−1).”
Attenuated tree species diversity in human-impacted tropical evergreen forest sites at Kolli hills, Eastern Ghats, India (2000, background): “But the difference in human interference between each study site has considerable influence on species richness, from 26 species ha-' in the highly disturbed site MS to 54 species ha-' in the undisturbed site PS (Table 2). This notable twofold decrease between the study sites clearly demonstrates th”
Successional dynamics of woody seedling communities in wet tropical secondary forests (2005, background): “In Neotropical forests, lianas (Hegarty & Caballe 1991; DeWalt et al . 2000; Pena-Claros & de Boo 2002) and shrubs (Guariguata et al . 1997; Laska 1997) reach higher abundance in early successional forests than in old-growth forests, whereas palms (Guariguata et al . 1997; Svenning 1998; Farris Lo”
Recruitment of lianas into logging gaps and the effects of pre-harvest climber cutting in a lowland forest in Cameroon (2004, background): “Similarly, lianas recruit in extremely high abundance into such large-scale disturbances as abandoned pastures and areas affected by hurricanes (Horvitz et al., 1998, DeWalt et al., 2000).”
The ecology of lianas and their role in forests (2002, background): “Several studies have suggested that lianas could be classified as early successional or gap-dependent pioneer species 20, 23, 24.”
Interacting effects of canopy gap, understory vegetation and leaf litter on tree seedling recruitment and composition in tropical secondary forests (2008, background): “This competing vegetation is particularly abundant in the understory and the soil seed bank of young secondary forests (Laska, 1997; Dupuy and Chazdon, 1998; Dewalt et al., 2000; Capers et al., 2005).”