Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species

By Robert Ivor John, J. Dalling, Kyle E. Harms, J. Yavitt, R. Stallard, M. Mirabello, Stephen P. Hubbell, Renato Valencia, H. Navarrete, M. Vallejo and 1 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients (2012, background): “There is also evidence that soil nutrient availability influences species distribution and community composition (Potts et al. 2002; John et al. 2007).”
Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation (2008, methodology): “John et al. (2007) analysed the variation in soil nutrients in three neotropical forest plots (La Planada, Colombia; Yasuni, Ecuador and BCI, Panama) and concluded that the distribution of 40% of the species showed affinities with soil nutrients.”
Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest (2014, background): “soil micro- and macro-nutrients have been found to have strong associationswith neotropical tree species distributions (John et al. 2007).”
Species associations in an old‐growth temperate forest in north‐eastern China (2010, neutral): “One hypothesis is that the patterns at scales > 30 m would be driven by limited dispersal and habitat 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”
CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change (2015, background): “All individuals identified to species Characterize patterns of diversity, species-area, and abundance distributions (Hubbell, 1979, 2001; He & Legendre, 2002; Condit et al., 2005; John et al., 2007; Shen et al., 2009; He & Hubbell, 2011; Wang et al., 2011; Cheng et al., 2012); test theories of compe”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, background): “level, different species tend to be associated with soils of different fertility (Phillips et al., 2003; John et al., 2007).”
Strong plant-soil associations in a heterogeneous subtropical broad-leaved forest (2011, methodology): “This result is consistent with that of John et al. (2007), which showed that 40% (104 of 258 species), 36% (72 of 199 species) and 51% (479 of 943 species) of species were strongly related to soil nutrients in thee different tropical forests (a 50 ha BCI plot, a 25 ha La Planada plot, and a 25 ha…”
Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology (2010, background): “ecological differences in traits, such as a trade-off between survival versus growth rate in gaps (Hubbell 2005) and environmentdependent fitness (John et al. 2007), thus suggesting an important role for selection in community dynamics.”
Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species‐rich dipterocarp forest (2012, background): “Tropical tree species have non-random distributions in rela- tion to environmental gradients (Davies et al. 1998, 2005; Valencia et al. 2004; Engelbrecht et al. 2007; John et al. 2007).”
How much variation in tree mortality is predicted by soil and topography in Central Amazonia (2011, background): “…shown that soil and topography influence the spatial distribution of above-ground live biomass (Laurance et al., 1999; Castilho et al., 2006) and plant species composition (e.g., Harms et al., 2001; Russo et al., 2005; John et al., 2007; Costa et al., 2005) at a mesoscale (10–100 km) in Amazonia.”
Airborne spectranomics: mapping canopy chemical and taxonomic diversity in tropical forests (2009, background): “Recently, we have also come to realize that nutrient variation in tropical forest canopies is tightly linked to species diversity, and that understanding this chemical diversity is crucial to understanding ecosystem function (John et al. 2007; Townsend et al. 2007).”
The distance decay of similarity in communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi in different ecosystems and scales (2013, background): “The relatively greater autocorrelation range of soil properties in tropical forests is attributable to more stable climate over millennia and low contribution of each tree species in creating soil patches in highly diverse ecosystems (John et al. 2007; Townsend, Asner & Cleveland 2008).”