Alternative height strategies among 45 dicot rain forest species from tropical Queensland, Australia

By Daniel S. Falster, M. Westoby. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest (2012, background): “This reflects the fact that light-demanding early successional species tend to be small, whereas light-demanding latesuccessional species tend to be tall (Falster & Westoby 2005).”
Global patterns in plant height (2009, background): “Further, the species that coexist in a given ecosystem often have heights that span several orders of magnitude (Foster & Janson 1985; Falster & Westoby 2005).”
Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest (2010, methodology): “We combine both trait and phylogenetic tests in the Yasunı́ FDP at four nested spatial scales to determine whether the importance of different assembly processes changes with scale.”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “…(especially as manifested in the shade-tolerance continuum), and reproduction vs. persistence (as manifested in the continuum of adult tree stature) (Loehle 2000, Turner 2001, Poorter et al. 2003, 2006, Falster and Westoby 2005, Nascimento et al. 2005, Bohlman and O’Brien 2006, Wright et al. 2010).”
Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale (2014, background): “Maximum diameter can serve as a proxy for potential height, which is considered an important indicator of the light capture strategy (Falster & Westoby, 2005; Kraft et al., 2008).”
Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? (2014, unknown): “Finally, plant life span, maximum plant height, ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen and growth form capture crucial information about resource acquisition, competitive ability and life-history strategy (Falster & Westoby 2005; P erez-Harguindeguy et al. 2013).”
Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass (2011, background): “Plant height is another important trait for species’ life-history strategies, affecting species’ abilities to capture light (Falster & Westoby 2005).”
A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components. (2007, background): “This reflects the continuum from high-SLA species in the shady understory to low-SLA species that occupy the canopy (Falster & Westoby 2005).”
Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits (2018, background): “Consistent with these findings, later successional, shade- tolerant species tend to have higher wood density (Falster & Westoby, 2005; Poorter et al., 2010).”
Cross‐species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics (2006, methodology): “Vegetation type Soil P (ppm) Latitude, longitude Rainfall (mm year À1 ) MAT ( C) Sampling points References, number of species sampled Tropical rainforest Rainforest 16 06 0 S, 2800 24 10 mm 2 , 250 mm Falster and Westoby (subsites: Cape Tribulation, (complex mesophyll 145 27 0 E; (2005a, unpublishe”
Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California (2009, background): “For example, similar to what has been shown in tropical wet forests (Falster and Westoby 2005), understory species present on the wetter sites at Jasper Ridge (e.g., Symphoricarpus spp.) have high wood density and high leaf area per sapwood area compared to coexisting canopy species, leading to the…”