1 Maintenance of Tree Diversity in Tropical Forests

By J. Terborgh, N. Pitman, M. Silman, H. Schichter, D. Levey, W. R. Silva, M. Galetti. 2002

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Subfields: Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Incorporating patterns of disperser behaviour into models of seed dispersal and its effects on estimated dispersal curves (2005, background): “…et al. 1995), to determining rates of population spread and colonization ability (Higgins and Richardson 1999), and may give seed dispersal a pivotal role in the structuring of highly diverse ecosystems (Nathan and Muller-Landau 2000; Schupp et al. 2002; Terborgh et al. 2002; Levin et al. 2003).”
INTERSPECIFIC NEIGHBORS CHANGE SEED DISPERSAL PATTERN OF AN AVIAN-DISPERSED PLANT (2005, background): “Indeed, in many plant communities, endozoochory is the dominant form of species’ dispersal (Frankie et al. 1974, Gentry 1982); in some communities .90% of woody plant species have been reported to be animal dispersed (Terborgh et al. 2002).”
Diversity and dominance in palm (Arecaceae) communities in terra firme forests in the western Amazon basin (2004, background): “586 J. Vormisto et al. © 2004 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 92, 577–588 Pitman et al. (2001) and Terborgh et al. (2002) suggested that the floristic similarity between the Yasuni and Manu regions occurs because both regions lie in the Andean foreland, and that the Iquitos region…”
The Bushmeat Harvest Alters Seedling Banks by Favoring Lianas, Large Seeds, and Seeds Dispersed by Bats, Birds, and Wind (2007, background): “Poachers alter the spatial dynamics of regeneration posited by Janzen (1970) by reducing dispersal distances and altering seed and seedling survival, which also has the potential to reduce local diversity (Wright & Duber 2001, Terborgh et al. 2002).”
Patterns of resource tracking by avian frugivores at multiple spatial scales: two case studies on discordance among scales (2004, background): “At the higher scale of landscape, frugivores may modify regional diversity patterns by means of a differential demographic effect at different sites (Kollmann 2000, Ortiz-Pulido et al. 2000, Terborgh et al. 2002).”
Spatial patterns in the understorey shrub genus Psychotria in central Amazonia: effects of distance and topography (2005, background): “…trees in seven neotropical countries, with an emphasis on the Amazonian region, and showed that the dissimilarity in tree composition between sites increases with distance for both flooded and unflooded forests, but very large areas are dominated by predictable associations (Terborgh et al. 2002).”
Distance‐responsive natural enemies strongly influence seedling establishment patterns of multiple species in an Amazonian rain forest (2010, background): “…adults observed in this study concur with laterstage sapling recruitment patterns documented in the same forest where the median distances between saplings and their nearest large conspecific adult are equal to multiple adult crown-widths for the majority of common species (Terborgh et al. 2002).”