Functional basis for resource niche partitioning by tropical trees

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Bark traits and life-history strategies of tropical dry- and moist forest trees (2014, background): “…stature (i.e. the maximum average tree size a species attains) and light requirements for regeneration present therefore the main strategy axes of tropical forest trees because they allow species to partition light gradients in the forest canopy and on the forest floor (Kitajima & Poorter 2008).”
Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life (2016, background): “In moist tropical ecosystems, species coexistence and forest dynamics are to a great extent driven by functional differences in the capacity to compete for light, and several trade-offs at various ontogenetic stages have been invoked to explain niche differentiation (Kitajima and Poorter 2008; Dent ”