Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador

By Renato Valencia, R. Foster, Gorky Villa, Richard S. Condit, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Consuelo Hernández, K. Romoleroux, E. Losos, Else Magård, Henrik Balslev. 2004

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

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Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species‐rich dipterocarp forest (2012, background): “Tropical tree species have non-random distributions in relation to environmental gradients (Davies et al. 1998, 2005; Valencia et al. 2004; Engelbrecht et al. 2007; John et al. 2007).”
Edaphic and Floristic Variation within a 1‐ha Plot of Lowland Amazonian Rain Forest 1 (2006, background): “The tree enumeration in the plot set the new World record in single-hectare tree species richness (Valencia et al. 1994), and the total count of more than 900 plant species (Balslev et al. 1998) is unparalleled.”
Resource‐based habitat associations in a neotropical liana community (2012, background): “These analyses have shown that tree species frequently have distributional biases with respect to topography (e.g. Valencia et al. 2004; Gunatilleke et al. 2006), which suggest sensitivity to underlying variation in soil moisture or nutrient availability.”
Oligarchic dominance in western Amazonian plant communities (2005, background): “Email: mmacia@ma-rjb.csic.es area (1–50 ha) within Amazonia generally seems to be composed of a limited set of relatively common species and large number of sparse species (Campbell 1994, Gentry 1988b, Pitman et al. 2001, Valencia et al. 2004).”
Leaf phenology is associated with soil water availability and xylem traits in a tropical dry forest (2012, background): “Water availability gradients, therefore, determine to a large extent the non-random occurrence of species, which in turn reflect the adaptive evolution of species in response to such environmental stresses (Harms et al. 2001; Valencia et al. 2004).”
Species associations in an old‐growth temperate forest in north‐eastern China (2010, unknown): “…conditions, which typically vary along environmental gradients, which, in turn, are often related to topographical features (Harms et al. 2001; Valencia et al. 2004; Gunatilleke et al. 2006; John et al. 2007), and that the patterns at scales smaller than 10–15 m are driven by direct…”
Tropical tree species assemblages in topographical habitats change in time and with life stage (2011, background): “…in many species-rich (plant) communities may not provide separate niches for hundreds of plant species as required by classical coexistence theory (Valencia et al. 2004), because plants depend on and compete for the same few of resources and acquire them in similar ways (Daws et al. 2002;…”
Soil nutrients and beta diversity in the Bornean Dipterocarpaceae: evidence for niche partitioning by tropical rain forest trees (2006, background): “That dominant rain forest trees are habitat generalists, whereas subdominant taxa are habitat specialists, has been documented at local scales within communities (Valencia et al. 2004) and among communities at meso- and regional scales (see data in ter Steege et al.”
Spatial Scales of Pollen and Seed-Mediated Gene Flow in Tropical Rain Forest Trees (2008, background): “Pennington and Dick [98] evaluated the biogeographic origins of tree lineages in a 25-ha forest inventory plot in Ecuador [122].”
A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data (2004, background): “…patterns of dispersal or may be driven by increasing environmental heterogeneity at greater scales (Harte et al. 1999; Hubbell 2001; Balvanera et al. 2002; Chave & Leigh 2002; Condit et al. 2002; Duivenvoorden et al. 2002; Ruokolainen & Tuomisto 2002; Rodrı́guez & Arita 2004; Valencia et al. 2004).”
Use of Mineral Licks by White-Bellied Spider Monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) and Red Howler Monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) in Eastern Ecuador (2010, background): “TBS was founded in 1994 by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) on a tract of undisturbed lowland rainforest within the ca. 1.7-million ha Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, a region noted for its biodiversity (Valencia et al. 2004).”