Spatial patterns in the distribution of tropical tree species.

By Richard S. Condit, P. Ashton, P. Baker, S. Bunyavejchewin, Savithri Gunatilleke, N. Gunatilleke, Stephen P. Hubbell, R. Foster, A. Itoh, J. Lafrankie and 5 more. Science, 2000

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TREEFALL GAPS AND THE MAINTENANCE OF SPECIES DIVERSITY IN A TROPICAL FOREST (2001, background): “In contrast, gradients in light levels from a gap center to the intact forest are likely to be much lower in seasonally moist and dry forests, which tend to have lower cloud cover and a much higher proportion of deciduous trees (Condit et al. 2000), and thus allow far more light to penetrate the int”
Distance‐responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest (2010, background): “…earliest stages of recruitment are completely overlooked in observational studies that only consider stems ‡ 1 cm in diameter (e.g. Hubbell & Foster 1986; Hubbell, Condit & Foster 1990; Condit et al. 1992, Condit, Hubbell & Foster 1994; Hubbell et al. 1999; Condit et al. 2000 and numerous others).”
Scale and species richness: towards a general, hierarchical theory of species diversity (2001, background): “Some studies ®nd evidence, contra the PPH, of aggregated rather than dispersed populations of tropical moist forest species (e.g. Condit et al., 2000).”
SAMPLING THE SPECIES COMPOSITION OF A LANDSCAPE (2002, background): “In our case, we require that the mean abundance of the best-fit distribution agree with the empirically observed mean abundance (763.57 individuals), so that the total number of individuals represented by 300 species agrees with the observed total number of individuals.”
Spatial patterns of tree species richness in two temperate forests (2011, result): “This result is consistent with previous studies that have identified spatial clustering as the dominant pattern of species from temperate forests to tropical forests (He, Legendre & LaFrankie 1997; Condit et al. 2000; Morlon et al. 2008; Wang et al. 2010b).”
Resource‐based habitat associations in a neotropical liana community (2012, methodology): “…in relation to environmental factors requires accounting for the dispersion patterns of plants, which are generally more aggregated than random (Condit et al. 2000), and for the consequentlackofindependenceinthe spatial locationof conspe-ciﬁc individuals (e.g. Plotkin et al. 2000; Harms et al.…”
The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots (2012, background): “Several other studies have analysed spatial distribution of species and shown that aggregation is a dominant pattern (He et al., 1997; Condit et al., 2000; Li et al., 2009).”
Rings, circles, and null-models for point pattern analysis in ecology (2004, methodology): “…Bradshaw 1999, Coomes et al. 1999, Jeltsch et al. 1999, Mast and Veblen 1999, Kuusinen and Penttinen 1999, Bossdorf et al. 2000, Camarero et al. 2000, Condit et al. 2000, Grau 2000, He and Duncan 2000, Kuuluvainen and Rouvinen 2000, Lookingbill and Zavala 2000, Haase 2001, Fehmi and Bartolome…”
Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo (2009, methodology): “Abiotically dispersed trees, which tend to be more synchronous fruiters than animaldispersed species (Herrera et al. 1998), are highly aggregated at Ndoki as they tend to be elsewhere (Condit et al. 2000, Plotkin et al. 2000, Seidler & Plotkin 2006).”
Seedling recruitment in a hurricane‐driven tropical forest: light limitation, density‐dependence and the spatial distribution of parent trees (2005, background): “However, parent trees are likely to be spatially aggregated at a smaller spatial scale (Condit et al. 2000) and we do not have an understanding of their spatial structure at that scale.”
Assessing recruitment limitation: concepts, methods and case-studies from a tropical forest. (2002, background): “If adult trees are clumped (as they often are, Condit et al., 2000), seed limitation will be further increased (Ribbens et al., 1994).”
Tree species distributions across five habitats in a Bornean rain forest (2004, background): “Spatially-limited seed dispersal is often suggested as the process leading to species clumping (Condit et al. 2000) but the degree of dispersal limitation observed in among most Bornean tree species was not sufficient to maintain strong aggregations over many generations, given intact faunal…”