Disturbances prevent stem size‐density distributions in natural forests from following scaling relationships

By David A. Coomes, R. Duncan, R. Allen, James Truscott. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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How much variation in tree mortality is predicted by soil and topography in Central Amazonia (2011, background): “…based on a division in two other size classes (dbh < 18 cm and P18 cm) in which the mortality of smaller trees are thought to be caused mainly by competition, whereas the mortality of larger trees are due to exogenous disturbances such as storms (Coomes et al., 2003; Muller-Landau et al., 2006).”
Community dynamics during early secondary succession in Mexican tropical rain forests (2006, background): “A current debate links community structural attributes (e.g. basal area and plant size hierarchies) to concepts of asymmetric competition and density-dependent growth and mortality (Condit et al. 1998, Coomes et al. 2003, Enquist & Niklas 2001, Midgley et al. 2002).”
Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology. (2007, background): “However, recent work suggests these distributions deviate from these simple models, especially in the largest trees [46, 49 ].”
Diversity and equitability ordering profiles applied to study forest structure (2012, background): “This would indicate any type of disturbance increasing mortality rate for larger trees (Coomes et al., 2003), whether naturally (e.”
Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments (2011, methodology): “The estimates are derived from measurements of diameters and heights of individual trees in forest inventory plots, which are converted to carbon stocks using standard formulae, summed across all trees within a plot, then scaled up to provide regional and global estimates (Phillips et al. 1998; Cham”
The tree mortality regime in temperate old-growth coniferous forests: the role of physical damage (2010, background): “…cause reveal that the rationale for elevated mortality rates in the small size classes — competitive interactions with larger trees (Goff and West 1975; Coomes et al. 2003) — is incomplete: in fact, crushing by falling trees and litter is a significant mortality agent in the smaller size classes.”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “A more common observation is that small trees have higher mortality rates than large trees (e.g., Condit et al. 1999, Coomes et al. 2003, Muller-Landau et al. 2006a, Wunder et al. 2008), although in some cases this pattern may simply reflect that smaller trees more often are suppressed than larger…”