Drought stress and tropical forest woody seedlings: effect on community structure and composition

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Successional Change and Resilience of a Very Dry Tropical Deciduous Forest Following Shifting Agriculture (2008, background): “Moreover, competition not only decreases with low recruitment (Schwinning & Weiner 1998, Niklas et al. 2003) but also with increasing environmental stress (e.g., drought; Menge & Sutherland 1987, Bunker and Carson 2005).”
Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species (2008, background): “Seedlings and saplings are affected by this low water availability, and have a reduced leaf water potential and gas exchange (Wright et al. 1992, Tobin et al. 1999, Cao 2000), leading to a reduction in growth and survival (Engelbrecht & Kursar 2003, Bunker & Carson 2005, Poorter 2005).”
Seasonal differentiation in density‐dependent seedling survival in a tropical rain forest (2012, result): “This result is in contrast to the findings of Bunker & Carson (2005), who found that NDD was stronger in plots that had been irrigated compared with control plots in seasonal forest in Panama, suggesting that increased soil moisture promotes stronger NDD.”
Recruitment patterns following a severe drought: long-term compositional shifts in Patagonian forests (2008, background): “Most of the studies analyze drought effects on future forest composition based on irrigation experiments (Fotelli et al. 2001; Marod et al. 2004; Sack 2004; Bunker and Carson 2005; Lloret et al. 2005).”