Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest

By Kyle E. Harms, Stephen J. Wright, O. Calderón, Andrés Hernández, E. Herre. Nature, 2000

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Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds (2008, background): “Seed dispersal benefits plants through one or more of the following: gene flow (Godoy & Jordano 2001), escape from areas of high mortality (Harms et al. 2000), colonization of new sites (Neeman & Izhaki 1996; Shanahan et al. 2001; Richardson et al. 2002; Laurance et al. 2006), and directed…”
Poachers and Forest Fragmentation Alter Seed Dispersal, Seed Survival, and Seedling Recruitment in the Palm Attalea butyraceae, with Implications for Tropical Tree Diversity 1 (2001, methodology): “For illustrative purposes, we used relative functions for P, I, and PRC suggested by a recent analysis of seed survival for 53 tropical trees (Harms et al. 2000).”
Local neighborhood effects on long-term survival of individual trees in a neotropical forest (2001, background): “Recently, results of a 14-year study of seed rain and seedling germination in the BCI 50 ha plot have found very strong and community-wide evidence of species-specific density dependence in the seed-to-seedling transition ( Harms et al. 2000 ).”
Patterns of woody plant species abundance and diversity in the seedling layer of a tropical forest (2007, methodology): “This may be the result of local-scale negative density dependence during the seed-to-seedling transition in the BCI tree community (Harms et al. 2000; Wright et al. 2005a), but since we examined only static seedling abundances we cannot determine whether the observed pattern is due to higher recruit”
Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence (2017, background): “Rather, the large numbers of seeds falling near conspecific adults overwhelm distance and density dependent differences in per capita recruitment so that recruit density is greatest where seeds were initially most numerous (Hubbell 1980; Condit et al. 1992; Harms et al. 2000).”
Aggregated Seed Dispersal by Spider Monkeys Limits Recruitment to Clumped Patterns in Virola calophylla (2004, background): “…of density- and distance-dependent mortality of seeds, seedlings, and saplings can have important consequences in many forests (Clark & Clark 1984; Gilbert et al. 1994; Harms et al. 2000; Hille Ris Lambers et al. 2002), and strong evidence was found for these mechanisms for V. calophylla.”
The Ultimate Basis of the Caching Preferences of Rodents, and the Oak-Dispersal Syndrome: Tannins, Insects, and Seed Germination1 (2001, background): “Only recently have comprehensive field studies begun to confirm the Janzen-Connell hypothesis (Harms et al., 2000; Packer and Clay, 2000).”
Modelling long‐distance seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes (2008, positive): “Seed dispersal can also determine which species are able to establish and coexist (Hurtt & Pacala 1995; Harms et al .”
Variation in seed and germination characteristics among Juniperus procera populations in Ethiopia (2006, background): “A number of selective advantages with large seed size have been documented, such as prolonged dormancy during unfavourable light conditions, development of large amounts of photosynthetic tissue, allowing quick seedling growth, and dispersal modes (Harms et al., 2000; Leishman et al., 2000).”
A spatially explicit model of sapling growth in a tropical forest: does the identity of neighbours matter? (2004, background): “In contrast, Harms et al. (2000) found strong and pervasive conspecific effects on seedling recruitment Growth (mm year−1) Radius (m) Growth (mm year−1) with neighbour Alseis blackiana 3.35 11.16 2.82 Aspidosperma cruenta 0.69 13.54 0.50*** Beilschmiedia pendula 1.67 13.85 1.65 Brosimum alicastrum…”
Biased seed rain in forest edges: Evidence from the Brazilian Atlantic forest (2006, background): “As counting such large numbers of very small seeds proved to be impractical we considered a maximum of 300 seeds per trap per survey as previously adopted by Harms et al. (2000).”
An evaluation of alternative dispersal functions for trees (2004, background): “In the tropics this is certainly an important characteristic given the strong density-dependence observed there (Harms et al. 2000).”
The influence of soil moisture on losses of buried seeds to fungi (2003, background): “…of competitively superior species (Janzen 1970; Connell 1971); although results have been mixed (Connell 1978; Hubbell 1980; Clark and Clark 1984), much recent research has supported variants of this hypothesis (Dobson and Crawley 1994; Harms et al. 2000; Howe and Miriti 2000; Olff et al. 2000).”
Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane‐impacted tropical forest (2009, background): “…density-dependent mortality at the seedling stage has been observed in a number of tropical and temperate forest communities (Webb & Peart 1999; Harms et al. 2000; Hille Ris Lambers, Clark & Beckage 2002; Uriarte et al. 2005; Queenborough et al. 2007; Comita & Hubbell 2009) and is hypothesized…”