Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

By L. Comita, H. Muller‐Landau, Salomón Aguilar, Stephen P. Hubbell. Science, 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges (2013, background): “Subsequent work has suggested that the decline in performance and abundance of seedlings near conspecific adult trees is common in both tropical and temperate forests (Comita et al. 2010; Johnson et al. 2012; Terborgh 2012).”
The macroecology of animal versus wind pollination: ecological factors are more important than historical climate stability (2016, positive): “Meanwhile, as plant species richness increases, the density of conspecifics per unit area tends to decrease (Comita et al. 2010), which may also reduce the efficiency of pollen dispersion by wind (Whitehead 1969; Regal 1982).”
Forecasting plant community impacts of climate variability and change: when do competitive interactions matter? (2012, background): “Another alternative might focus on intra- and interspecific differences in plant–soil feedbacks, which appear to be powerful sources of density dependence (Klironomos 2002; Comita et al. 2010;Mangan et al. 2010) andmay be correlated with simple traits (Kulmatiski et al. 2008).”
Change in community phylogenetic structure during tropical forest succession: evidence from New Guinea (2012, background): “Alternatively, densitydependent trophic interactions (Gilbert and Webb 2007, Comita et al. 2010) or mutualism and facilitation (Valiente- Banuet and Verdu 2007, Sargent and Ackerly 2008) could infl uence the pattern.”
Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny (2012, background): “…suggests that trophic interactions indeed play a role in structuring the distribution of tropical tree community phylogenetic diversity (Wills et al. 2006, Comita et al. 2010, Metz et al. 2010), but it is less clear how the abundance of natural enemies is distributed with respect to the vegetation.”
Seasonal differentiation in density‐dependent seedling survival in a tropical rain forest (2012, methodology): “…has been found to vary among species (i.e. ‘asymmetric density dependence’) and to decrease with increased species abundance in a tropical tree community in central Panama, suggesting that local-scale NDD is a potential mechanism shaping species commonness and rarity (Comita et al. 2010).”
CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change (2015, background): “, 2012); detect directional changes (Wright & Calderon, 2006) Seedling 21 (30) Seedling establishment, growth and Characterize density- and distanceperformance survival are quantified annually in three 1-m(2) plots associated with dependent effects on con- and hetero specific seedling recruitment (”
Competition, species interaction and ageing control tree mortality in boreal forests (2011, background): “seedlings and saplings (Comita et al. 2010) and others indicate that such an effect occurs for all trees (Peters 2003; Gonzalez et al.”
Why are there so many species in the tropics? (2013, methodology): “The Janzen– Connell process has increasingly gained empirical support (e.g. MacArthur, 1972; Clark & Clark, 1984; Sax, 2001; Mittelbach et al., 2007; Schemske et al., 2009; Comita et al., 2010; Ricklefs, 2010; Swamy & Terborgh, 2010; Johnson et al., 2012; Terborgh, 2012).”
Consequences of Seed Dispersal for Plant Recruitment in Tropical Forests: Interactions Within the Seedscape (2013, background): “In addition, the relative contribution of different processes may shift over time (Muller-Landau et al. 2002, Comita et al. 2009, Paine & Harms 2009), but this is difficult to identify when examining spatial patterns at a given point in time and within a certain spatial scale.”
Plant traits predict inter‐ and intraspecific variation in susceptibility to herbivory in a hyperdiverse Neotropical rain forest tree community (2014, positive): “This suggests that species at the limit of their habitat tolerances may be more susceptible to or less capable to recover from attack (Comita et al. 2010).”