Why Do Some Tropical Forests Have So Many Species of Trees

By Egbert G. Leigh Jr., P. Davidar, C. Dick, J. Puyravaud, J. Terborgh, H. ter Steege, Stephen J. Wright. 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest (2010, background): “Key words: coexistence theory; functional equivalence; functional traits; habitat filtering; neutral theory; null models; phylogenetic community structure; power analysis; simulation modeling; Yasunı́ Forest Dynamics Plot, Ecuador.”
Predicting the Long‐Term Effects of Hunting on Plant Species Composition and Diversity in Tropical Forests (2007, background): “These are merely two of the more comprehensive studies providing evidence of negative density dependence of life history transitions in tropical forests (see reviews by Hammond & Brown 1998, Wright 2002, Leigh et al. 2004).”
The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families (2007, background): “Two climatic factors are often given as the cause of the elevated species richness of tropical wet forests: the abundance of water and the stability of temperature (Leigh et al., 2004).”
Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1 (2010, background): “…each of these factors is widely debated, as is whether they promote tropical diversity through the creation of a cradle of high species origination rates or a museum of low extinction rates (Givnish, 1999; Hubbell, 2001; Condit et al., 2002; Leigh et al., 2004; Ricklefs, 2004; Zhou & Zhang, 2008).”
Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions (2009, background): “Janzen (1970) and Connell (1971) independently proposed that high density-dependent predation on seeds and seedlings of tropical trees prevents competitive exclusion, and Leigh et al. (2004) regard this as a major mechanism for the maintenance of high tropical diversity.”
Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival (2014, background): “…rates of herbivory and pathogen attack are not always higher in forests with higher annual precipitation, since insect herbivores and pathogens may respond more strongly to dry season length/severity, which is often, but not always, correlated with total annual precipitation (Leigh et al. 2004).”