Niche assembly of epiphytic bryophyte communities in the Guianas: a regional approach

By Sylvia Mota de Oliveira, H. ter Steege, J. H. C. Cornelissen, S. Robbert Gradstein. 2009

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Aim  Epiphytic bryophyte communities of tropical forests show a gradient in species composition from the base to the top of the host trees, indicating a strong role of niche assembly. This pattern, however, has never been tested at a regional scale. The aim of this study was to test whether niche assembly, rather than dispersal limitation, predominantly drives species composition of bryophyte communities across large spatial scales.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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