Tree size frequency distributions, plant density, age and community disturbance

By Karl J. Niklas, J. Midgley, Richard H. Rand. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Community dynamics during early secondary succession in Mexican tropical rain forests (2006, methodology): “It has been predicted that under asymmetric competition growth concentrates in the largest individuals and smaller individuals suffer higher mortality rates, resulting in declining density and an increasing average and maximum tree diameter (Huston 1994, Niklas et al. 2003).”
Successional Change and Resilience of a Very Dry Tropical Deciduous Forest Following Shifting Agriculture (2008, background): “In turn, competition leading to the patterns of density decline (Niklas et al. 2003) may be prevented in TDF by processes derived from its characteristic regeneration mechanisms: on the one hand, droughtrelated poor seedling establishment prevents a dense packing of individuals (Ewel 1980,…”
Neighbour‐regulated mortality: the influence of positive and negative density dependence on tree populations in species‐rich tropical forests (2003, background): “Conspecific density dependence might be expected to be strongest among abundant species, reaching its limit in single species stands where self-thinning laws are applicable ( Niklas et al. 2003 ).”
Disturbances prevent stem size‐density distributions in natural forests from following scaling relationships (2003, methodology): “The slope depends on the choice of size-class bin ( Niklas et al. 2003; our results), the stem-size range selected (Table 3) and the disturbance history of sites (Niklas et al. 2003).”
A complex social structure with fission–fusion properties can emerge from a simple foraging model (2005, unknown): “Exponent 132 values measured in most forest types are in the range 1.5 < β < 4 (Enquist and Niklas 2001, 133 Niklas et al. 2003), while a typical spider monkey habitat in the Yucatan peninsula, 134 Mexico, had a value of 2.6 (Boyer et al. in press).”