Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

By H. Muller‐Landau, Stephen J. Wright, O. Calderón, Richard S. Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Effects of canopy heterogeneity, seed abscission and inertia on wind‐driven dispersal kernels of tree seeds (2008, background): “Similar strong effects for vt and zr were also observed using a long-term seed-rain data in a tropical environment (Muller-Landau et al. 2008).”
Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees (2016, positive): “Thirdly, many studies consider only a single trait, thus inherently limiting the total explanatory power of traits (Muller-Landau et al. 2008; Iida et al. 2014a,b). Many traits will influence plant function simultaneously and each trait can be involved in multiple trade-offs with contradictory effec”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “In trees, most comparative experiments have been performed in tropical species (Poorter and Rose 2005; Muller-Landau et al. 2008).”
Trade-offs in interspecific comparisons in plant ecology and how plants overcome proposed constraints (2016, background): “Another problem is that dispersibility may not be consistently greater in smaller-seeded species (Fenner and Thompson 2005; Muller-Landau et al. 2008; Thomson et al. 2011).”
Response of recruitment to light availability across a tropical lowland rain forest community (2009, methodology): “Parameter values are sequentially updated as in the Gibbs sampler, but acceptance depends on the likelihood ratios as in the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm (Muller-Landau et al. 2008).”
Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass (2011, background): “The negative relationship we found once we controlled for plant height was also found between seed mass and mean dispersal distance by Muller-Landau et al. (2008) with tree species whose maximum heights varied less than threefold.”
Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review. (2010, methodology): “Although this modeling approach is promising, Muller-Landau et al. (2008) identify a number of difficulties in developing truly ‘effective’ mechanistic models for seed dispersal by animals.”
Plant fecundity and seed dispersal in spatially heterogeneous environments: models, mechanisms and estimation (2008, background): “Currently, the potential for such generalizations across environments and species seems limited (Clark et al. 1999b, 2005; Muller-Landau et al. 2008).”
Age-Related Changes in Tree Growth and Functional Biology: The Role of Reproduction (2011, background): “Several studies have reported values of a ~ 2 (Studies reporting exponents in the range of 1.7–2.2 include: Peters et al. 1988; Niklas 1993; Hirayama et al. 2004), and this value has been widely assumed in forest simulation models (Pacala et al. 1993), and in analyses of propagule dispersal kernels ”
Bark traits and life-history strategies of tropical dry- and moist forest trees (2014, background): “They may recruit massively after forest fires (Slik et al. 2010) because of their copious seed production, effective long-distance seed dispersal (Muller-Landau et al. 2008) and high abundance in the soil seedbank (Putz 1983).”
Fragmentation drives tropical forest fragments to early successional states: A modelling study for Brazilian Atlantic forests (2011, background): “On the landscape level it would be important to investigate the role of long-distance dispersal (Muller-Landau et al., 2008).”