A greater range of shade‐tolerance niches in nutrient‐rich forests: an explanation for positive richness–productivity relationships?

By David A. Coomes, G. Kunstler, Charles D. Canham, E. Wright. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Size‐dependence of growth and mortality influence the shade tolerance of trees in a lowland temperate rain forest (2009, methodology): “According to the light transmission model presented in Coomes et al. (2009), this basal area corresponds to a light level of 8.9% of full light in the terrace sites.”
Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes (2012, background): “Few studies have explored patterns of functional diversity along environmental gradients (e.g., Coomes et al. 2009; Cornwell & Ackerly 2009), and we are the first, to our knowledge, to explore functional diversity patterns as indicators of different assembly processes.”
Above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity jointly regulate temperate forest multifunctionality along a local‐scale environmental gradient (2020, background): “For example, in alluvial valleys or nutrient-rich soils, forests are structured by strong competition for light, and hence, develop more structurally complex and dense canopies while also leading to higher productivity and turnover rates (Coomes et al., 2009; Prado-Junior et al., 2016).”
Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta‐analysis (2012, background): “For example, polycultures with different life-history traits among constituent species can increase the spatial niche occupancy of a site (Coomes et al. 2009; Brassard et al. 2011).”
Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity (2012, background): “Divergence in light capture strategy can be temporal (Grubb 1977; Bazzaz 1979; Huston & Smith 1987) or spatial (via vertical partitioning of light capture Botkin, Janak &Wallis 1972; Coomes et al. 2009).”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “…zone increased moisture or soil fertility might reduce whole-plant light compensation points (thereby increasing shade tolerance) or have other effects that allow greater densities of plants (and species) to persist in the understory (Givnish 1999, Pitman et al. 2002, Coomes et al. 2009).”
On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta‐analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted (2016, background): “…al. 2008; Moya & Tomazello 2008; Osone, Ishida & Tateno 2008; Poorter et al. 2008, 2010; Quero et al. 2008; Aiba & Nakashizuka 2009; Chave et al. 2009; Coomes et al. 2009; Easdale & Healey 2009; Rossatto et al. 2009; Salda~na-Acosta, Meave & S anchez-Vel asquez 2009; Mart ınez-Vilalta et al.…”
Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits (2015, background): “However, the understorey in the high-fertility gully environments is generally darker at ground level than on the ridges because of the combination of greater canopy leaf area (Coomes et al. 2009) and topographical constraints to incoming solar radiation.”