Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities

By Brian J. Enquist, Karl J. Niklas. Nature, 2001

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Macroecology of mangroves: large-scale patterns and processes in tropical coastal forests (2002, background): “In particular, general allometric theory predicts that overall ecosystem productivity should be independent of plant size (Enquist et al. 2000; Enquist and Niklas 2001; Niklas and Enquist 2001).”
The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families (2007, methodology): “Our analysis of within-family species richness and abundance patterns relies on transect data collected by A. H. Gentry (Gentry, 1988; Phillips & Miller, 2002), which have been used in a number of plant macroecological studies (e.g. Enquist & Niklas, 2001; Enquist et al., 2002).”
The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization (2005, background): “Plot of maximum reported xylem flux rates (liters of fluid transported vertically through a plant stem per day) for plants (Enquist and Niklas, 2001).”
Ecogeographical rules: elements of a synthesis (2008, background): “…spatial patterns in additional aspects of assemblage size and composition, such as in total abundance, total biomass or total energy use (e.g. Enquist & Niklas, 2001; Hurlbert, 2004; Pautasso & Gaston, 2005; Evans et al., 2006a), or in the numbers or proportions of different functional or…”
Why are there so many species in the tropics? (2013, background): “1; see also Enquist & Niklas, 2001; Currie et al., 2004).”
What controls liana success in Neotropical forests (2008, methodology): “…address questions of forest community assembly, diversity, function and structure on a macroecological scale, and has been widely used for continental and global-scale analyses (e.g. Gentry, 1982, 1988, 1991; Clinebell et al. , 1995; Enquist & Niklas, 2001; Phillips et al. , 2002; Schnitzer, 2005).”
The Effect of Summer Harvesting of Phragmites australis on Growth Characteristics and Rhizome Resource Storage (2005, background): “Leaves receive more light than stalks do, thus they are more efficient in gross production (Enquist & Niklas, 2001).”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “…L. STEPHENSON ET AL.532 Ecological Monographs Vol. 81, No. 4 C O N C E P TS & S YN TH E S IS unmanaged forests are small and therefore young (e.g., Enquist and Niklas 2001), and nearly always have higher mortality rates than the relatively rare large, old trees (e.g., Condit et al. 1999, Coomes…”
Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth (2004, background): “…of these linkages are already offering new insights into such diverse phenomena as the structure and dynamics of forests (Enquist et al. 1998; Enquist and Niklas 2001, 2002), foraging behavior of ants (Jun et al. 2003), latitudinal and elevational patterns of species diversity (Allen et al.…”
A complex social structure with fission–fusion properties can emerge from a simple foraging model (2005, positive): “Also, the overall variation in tree size is best 489 described by an inverse power-law (Enquist and Niklas 2001) and not by a Gaussian 490 distribution.”
Tree size frequency distributions, plant density, age and community disturbance (2003, methodology): “However, departures from log–log linearity are not often observed for communities sampled over small areas (e.g. 0.1–1.0 ha plots) nor when these small data sets are combined to achieve continental or worldwide representations (see Enquist & Niklas 2001).”