Density-dependence in common tree species in a tropical dry forest in Mudumalai, southern India

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-56

  John, Robert ^a   Dattaraja, H S ^a   Suresh, H S ^a   Sukumar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Ground fire; Long term data; Mudumalai; Permanent plot; Population dynamics; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASAL AREA; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DRY FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

INDIA; MUDUMALAI; TAMIL NADU;

CASSIA; CASSIA FISTULA; FABACEAE; LAGERSTROEMIA; LAGERSTROEMIA MICROCARPA; LYTHRACEAE; SENNA; TECTONA GRANDIS; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 0036230814     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2002.tb02022.x     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. The ecological and genetic consequences of density dependent regulation in plants
2. A global network of plots for understanding tree species diversity in tropical forests
3. Offspring recruitment around tropical trees: Changes in cohort distance with time
4. Seedling survival of tropical tree species: Interactions of dispersal distance, light-gaps, and pathogens
5. The transition from open forest to savanna in continental southeast Asia
6. Spacing dynamics of a tropical rain forest tree: Evaluation of the Janzen-Connell model
7. Recruitment near conspecific adults and the maintenance of tree and shrub diversity in a neotropical forest
8. Density-dependence in two understorey tree species in a neotropical forest
9. Compensatory recruitment, growth, and mortality as factors maintaining rain forest tree diversity
10. Dispersal patterns and seed bank dynamics of pioneer trees in a moist tropical forest
11. Competition and the coexistence of species in a mixed Podocarp stand
12. Competition and stand structure in some even-aged plant monocultures
13. The effects of environmental heterogeneity in space and time on the regulation of populations and communities
14. Density and distance-to-adult effects of a canker disease of trees in a moist tropical forest
15. Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest
16. Density-dependent effects on tree survival in an old-growth Douglas fir forest
17. Early consequences of seed dispersal for a neotropical tree (Virola surinamensis)
18. The maintenance of diversity in a neotropical tree community: Conceptual issues, current evidence and challenges ahead
19. Short term dynamics of a neotropical forest: Why ecological research matters to tropical conservation and management
20. Presence and absence of density dependence in a neotropical tree community
21. Pattern of self-thinning in Jack pine: Testing the random mortality hypothesis
22. Interference in dune annuals: Spatial pattern and neighborhood effects
23. Leaf flushing phenology and herbivory in a tropical dry deciduous forest, southern India
24. Reproductive phenology of a tropical dry forest in Mudumalai, southern India
25. Assessing processes of intraspecific competition within spatially heterogeneous black spruce stands
26. Plant population dynamic theory
27. Field tests of neighborhood population dynamic models of two annual weed species
28. Competition and tree death
29. Population dynamics of three annual species of alpine plants in the Rocky Mountains
30. The structure and assembly of communities
31. Seed and early seedling predation in the forest understorey and in treefall gaps
32. The Janzen-Connell model for tropical tree diversity: Population implications and the importance of the spatial scale
33. Flora of Mudumatai Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu
34. The interpretation and misinterpretation of mortality rate measures
35. Biological determinants of species diversity
36. The application of plant population dynamic models to understanding plant competition petition
37. Density vagueness: Abiding the variance in the demography of real populations
38. Long-term monitoring of vegetation in a tropical deciduous forest in Mudumalai, southern India
39. Dynamics of tropical deciduous forest: Population changes (1988 through 1993) in a 50-ha plot at Mudumalai, southern India
40. Tree flora of Mudumalai Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu, southern India
41. Aspects of the population biology of the gregarious tree Cordia eleagnoides in Mexican tropical deciduous forest
42. The line transect method for estimating densities of large mammals in a tropical deciduous forest: An evaluation of models and field experiments
43. The demography of the sand dune annual: Vulpia fasciculata. I. The natural regulation of populations
44. Neighborhood interference among Pinus rigida individuals
45. Similar non-random processes maintain diversity in two tropical rain forests
46. Strong density- and diversity-related effects help maintain tree species diversity in a neotropical forest
47. The spatial pattern and reproductive consequences of outbreak defoliation in Quararibea asterolepis, a tropical tree
48. The dispersion of eggs by a bruchid beetle among palm seeds and the effect of distance to the parent palm
49. Competition and spacing in plant communities: Differential mortality of white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in a New England woodlot
50. Self-thinning in overcrowded pure stands under cultivated and natural conditions