ARE LIANAS INCREASING IN IMPORTANCE IN TROPICAL FORESTS? A 17‐YEAR RECORD FROM PANAMA

By S. Joseph Wright, O. Calderón, Andrés Hernández, Steven R Paton. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Lianas and self-supporting plants during tropical forest succession. (2009, background): “Evidence from longterm plots shows an increase in liana biomass in tropical forests over the past several decades (Phillips, 1995; Phillips et al., 2002; Wright et al., 2004; Swaine and Grace, 2007).”
Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan‐tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area (2010, background): “…structure and dynamics, and they may be increasing in abundance and biomass in lowland tropical and subtropical forests (Phillips et al. 2002, Wright et al. 2004, Wright & Calderón 2006, Allen et al. 2007), understanding the determinants of liana abundance and biomass may provide insights…”
A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses 1 (2006, background): “Reports of increasing liana abundance in oldgrowth tropical forests (Phillips et al. 2002, Wright et al. 2004), which may be linked to global climate change (Körner 2004), emphasize the importance of uniformity in liana sampling protocols that will facilitate comparison of independently collected…”
The impact of lianas on 10 years of tree growth and mortality on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (2010, background): “Determining the importance of liana–tree interactions is critical in understanding tropical forest dynamics and may be particularly relevant if lianas are increasing in abundance and biomass, as has been reported for several tropical forests (Phillips et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2004; Wright & Calder”
Resource‐based habitat associations in a neotropical liana community (2012, background): “On BCI, liana leaf litter production rose by 55% between 1986 and 2002 (Wright et al. 2004).”
Censusing and Measuring Lianas: A Quantitative Comparison of the Common Methods 1 (2006, background): “…lianas may be increasing in abundance and basal area in Neotropical lowland C© 2006 The Author(s) Journal compilation C© 2006 by The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 581 forests (Phillips et al. 2002, Wright et al. 2004), which may increase the impact of lianas on these forests.”
Hydraulic properties and photosynthetic rates in co-occurring lianas and trees in a seasonal tropical rainforest in southwestern China (2009, background): “…the exacerbation of forest fragmentation and global environmental change, the abundance of lianas in tropical forests is increasing (Granados and Körner 2002; Wright et al. 2004; Zhu et al. 2004), which will consequently influence the species composition and ecosystem service of tropical forests.”
Liana Impacts on Carbon Cycling, Storage and Sequestration in Tropical Forests (2013, background): “Lianas on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) have been increasing (Ingwell et al. 2010, Schnitzer et al. 2012) and this has led to a considerable proportional increase in liana leaf, flower, and fruit production relative to trees from 1986–2002 (Wright et al. 2004, Wright & Calderon 2006).”
Evidence for arrested succession in a liana‐infested Amazonian forest (2016, unknown): “…above-ground biomass (Putz 1984a; DeWalt & Chave 2004), but represent a significant share of the plant taxonomic diversity (Gentry 1988; Schnitzer et al. 2012) and they also play an important role in tropical forest ecosystem functioning (Wright et al. 2004; Schnitzer, Bongers & Wright 2011).”
Differences in leaf traits, leaf internal structure, and spectral reflectance between two communities of lianas and trees: Implications for remote sensing in tropical environments (2009, background): “…in tropical forests even though their dominance is growing relative to trees in many tropical forests (Phillips et al., 2002, Phillips et al., 2005, Wright et al., 2004) and they are considered to be one of the ten key fingerprints of global environmental change in tropical environments (Phillips…”
Hyperspectral discrimination of tropical dry forest lianas and trees: Comparative data reduction approaches at the leaf and canopy levels (2007, unknown): “Field studies indicate liana coverage is increasing in neotropical forests (Phillips et al. 2002; Wright et al., 2004), which may be a biological signal of higher CO 2 concentration, increased disturbance or decreased precipitation (Schnitzer, 2005).”
Reproductive size thresholds in tropical trees: variation among individuals, species and forests (2005, background): “For example, the basal area of large lianas (> 100 mm DBH) increased by 100% over the past 20 y in western Amazonian forests (Phillips et al. 2002) and total liana leaf mass increased by 50% over the same period on BCI (Wright et al. 2004).”
Increasing Liana Abundance and Basal Area in a Tropical Forest: The Contribution of Long‐distance Clonal Colonization (2013, background): “[48] ), liana floral production (Wright & Calderón [47] ), and levels of tree”
How far can we go in simplifying biomonitoring assessments? An integrated analysis of taxonomic surrogacy, taxonomic sufficiency and numerical resolution in a megadiverse region (2012, background): “Indeed, an entire volume of Forest Ecology and Management (vol. 190, 2004) was dedicated to the role of lianas in tropical-forest functioning, management and conservation (e.g., Wright et al., 2004; see also Schnitzer and Bongers, 2002).”
Lianas may be favoured by low rainfall: evidence from Ghana (2007, background): “Phillips et al. (2002) showed that large lianas are becoming more dominant in sample plots in the Amazon forest and Wright et al. (2004), working in Central America, found that the leaves of liana species on the forest floor increased relative to those of tree species between 1986 and 2002.”
What controls liana success in Neotropical forests (2008, background): “Recent work suggests that lianas are increasing in dominance in mature Neotropical forests (Phillips et al. , 2002; Wright et al. , 2004; Wright & Calderón, 2006), and there is some evidence suggesting that the same may be occurring in temperate forests (Allen et al. , 2007; but see Londré &…”