Size structure of a dominant neotropical forest tree species, Dicymbe altsonii, in Guyana and some factors reducing seedling leaf area

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 599-606

  Isaacs, R ^a,d   Gillman, M P ^b   Johnston, M ^c   Marsh, F ^e   Wood, B C ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICYMBE ALTSONII;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EPIPHYLL; FOREST; HERBIVORY; LEAF AREA; SIZE STRUCTURE;

GUYANA;

EID: 0029659334     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467400009810     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. CLARK, D. A. & CLARK, D. B. 1984. Spacing dynamics of a tropical rain forest tree: evaluation of the Janzen-Connell model. American Naturalist 124:769-788.
2. COLEY, P. D. 1982. Rates of herbivory on different tropical trees. Pp. 123-132 in Leigh, E. G., Rand, A. S. & Windsor, D. M. (eds). The ecology of a tropical forest. Smithsoman Press, Washington, D.C.
3. CONDIT, R., HUBBELL, S. P. & FOSTER, R. B. 1992. Recruitment near conspecific adults and the maintenance of tree and shrub diversity in a neotropical forest. American Naturalist 140:261-286.
4. CONNELL, J. H. 1971. On the role of natural enemies in preventing competitive exclusion in some marine animals and in rain forest trees. Pp. 298-312 in Den Boer, P. J. & Gradwell, G. (eds). Dynamics of populations. Pudoc, Wageningen.
5. CONNELL, J. H. & LOWMAN, M. D. 1989. Low-diversity tropical rain forests: some possible mechanisms for their existence. American Naturalist 134: 88-119.
6. CORNELLISSEN, J. H. C. & TER STEEGE, H. 1989. Distribution and ecology of epiphytic bryophytes and lichens in dry evergreen forest of Guyana. Journal of Tropical Ecology 5:131-150.
7. COWAN, R. S. & LINDEMAN, J. C. 1989. Flora of the Guianas (Series A. Caesalpiniaceae) (ed. A.R.A. Gorts-van Rijn).
8. DAVIS, T. A. W. & RICHARDS, P. W. 1934. The vegetation of Morabilli Creek, British Guiana: an ecological study of a limited area of tropical rain forest. Part II. Journal of Ecology 22:106-155.
9. JANZEN, D. H. 1970. Herbivores and the numbers of tree species in tropical forests. American Naturalist 104:501-529.
10. KITAJIMA, K. & AUGSPURGER, C. K. 1989. Seed and seedling ecology of a monocarpic tropical tree, Tachigalia versicolor. Ecology 70:1102-1114.
11. LOWMAN, M. D. 1985. Temporal and spatial variability in insect grazing of the canopies of five Australian rainforest tree species. Australian Journal of Ecology 10:7-24.
12. MENNEGA, E. A., TAMMENS-DE ROOIJ, W. C. M. & JANSEN-JACOBS, M. J. 1988. Check-list of woody plants of Guyana: based on D. B. Fanshawe's 'Check-list of the indigenous woody plants of British Guiana'. Technical Series Tropenbos.
13. NEWBERY, D. McC. & DE FORESTA, H. 1985. Herbivory and defense in pioneer, gap and understory trees of tropical rain forest in French Guiana. Biotropica. 17:238-244.
14. REICHDLE, D. E., GOLDSTEIN, R. A., VAN HOOK, R. I. & DODSON, G. J. 1973. Analysis of insect consumption in a forest canopy. Ecology 54:1076-1004.
15. RICHARDS, P. J. 1952. The tropical rain forest. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
16. WINT, G. R. W. 1983. Leaf damage in tropical rain forest canopies. Pp. 229-239 in Sutton, S. L., Whitmore, T. C. &. Chadwick, A. G. (eds). Tropical rain forest: ecology and management. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford.