Sapling size influences shade tolerance ranking among southern boreal tree species

By Daniel D. Kneeshaw, R. Kobe, K. David Coates, Christian Messier. 2006

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Size‐dependence of growth and mortality influence the shade tolerance of trees in a lowland temperate rain forest (2009, background): “The same convergence in shade tolerance with increasing size has been shown for North American tree species (Kneeshaw et al. 2006).”
The relationship between tree growth patterns and likelihood of mortality: a study of two tree species in the Sierra Nevada (2007, background): “Kneeshaw et al. (2006), for instance, found that trees became less shade-tolerant with increasing size.”
Effects of shade on growth and mortality of maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and beech (Fagus sylvatica) saplings (2007, methodology): “…publications give evidence that size of the sample trees affects the relationships between growth, mortality and light ( Delagrange et al. , 2004 ; Kneeshaw et al. , 2006 ), we were not able to include size of our sample trees as an additional independent variable because we found a highly…”
Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life (2016, background): “Although ranking of different species’ light requirements remains fairly constant with ontogeny, minimum light requirement can shift during plant ontogeny (Kneeshaw et al. 2006; Niinemets 2006; Lusk et al. 2008).”
Ontogenetic variation in light requirements of juvenile rainforest evergreens (2008, background): “Kneeshaw et al. (2006) reported that saplings of four out of five boreal deciduous trees had lower understorey survival than conspecific seedlings, although their expression of survival in function of growth (rather than light availability) makes comparisons problematic.”
Photosynthetic plasticity of Nothofagus pumilio seedlings to light intensity and soil moisture (2007, background): “Heliophytic tree species have characteristics that favor high-light growth, which include higher relative growth rates and higher respiration under all environmental conditions (Larcher, 2003; Kneeshaw et al., 2006; Niinemets, 2006).”
Gap regeneration and replacement patterns in an old-growth Fagus–Abies forest of Bosnia–Herzegovina (2010, background): “…our replacement probability analysis indirectly suggest that F. sylvatica survives for a shorter period under the canopy during the pole stage, which could be due to a decrease in shade tolerance with increasing plant size (Kneeshaw et al. 2006; Messier et al. 1999; Valladares and Niinemets 2008).”
Divergence from the growth–survival trade‐off and extreme high growth rates drive patterns of exotic tree invasions in closed‐canopy forests (2010, background): “Shade tolerance can be higher in seedlings than saplings, conferred by size-dependent changes in wholeplant carbon balance (Kneeshaw et al. 2006) or by carbon subsidies via a high seed mass (Martin & Canham, 2010).”