Multiscale analysis of active seed dispersal contributes to resolving reid's paradox

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 490-506

  Powell, James A ^a   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymptotic rates of spread; Dispersal kernel; Fat tailed distributions; Homogenization; Integrodifference equations; Invasion; Large scale seed dispersal; Rapid plant migration; Small scale seed dispersal; Spatial convolution; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; MIGRATION; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE EXPANSION; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CYANOCITTA CRISTATA; FORMICIDAE; PINUS CEMBROIDES; QUERCUS; RODENTIA; ZINGIBER OFFICINALE;

EID: 1542289065     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0535     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Andersen, M. 1991. Properties of some density-dependent integro-difference equation population models. Mathematical Biosciences 104:135-157.
2. Andow, D. A., P. M. Kareiva, S. A. Levin, and A. Okubo. 1990. Spread of invading organisms. Landscape Ecology 4:177-188.
3. Bennett, K. D. 1983. Postglacial population expansion of forest trees in Norfolk, UK. Nature 303:164-167.
4. Cain, M. L., H. Damman, and A. Muir. 1998. Seed dispersal and the Holocene migration of woodland herbs. Ecological Monographs 68:325-347.
5. Cain, M. L., B. G. Milligan, and A. E. Strand. 2000. Long-distance seed dispersal in plant populations. American Journal of Botany 87:1217-1227.
6. Clark, J. S. 1998. Why trees migrate so fast: confronting theory with dispersal biology and the paleorecord. American Naturalist 152:204-224.
7. Clark, J. S., C. Fastie, G. Hurtt, S. T. Jackson, C. Johnson, G. A. King, M. Lewis, J. Lynch, S. Pacala, C. Prentice, E. W. Schupp, T. Webb III, and P. Wyckoff. 1998. Reid's paradox of rapid plant migration. BioScience 48:13-24.
8. Clark, J. S., M. A. Lewis, and L. Horvath. 2001. Invasion by extremes: population spread with variation in dispersal and reproduction. American Naturalist 157:537-554.
9. Clark, J. S., M. Silman, R. Kern, E. Macklin, and J. HilleRisLambers. 1999. Seed dispersal near and far: patterns across temperate and tropical forests. Ecology 80: 1475-1494.
10. Cushing, J. M., R. F. Costantino, B. Dennis, R. A. Desharnais, and S. M. Henson. 2002. Chaos in ecology: experimental nonlinear dynamics. Academic Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
11. Darley-Hill, S., and W. C. Johnson. 1981. Acorn dispersal by the Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata). Oecologia 50:231-232.
12. Davis, M. B. 1981. Quaternary history and the stability of forest communities. Pages 132-153 in D. C. West, H. H. Shugart, and D. B. Botkin, editors. Forest succession: concepts and application. Springer Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
13. Davis, M.B. 1989. Lags in vegetation response to greenhouse warming. Climatic Change 15:75-82.
14. Delcourt, P. A., and H. R. Delcourt. 1987. Long-term forest dynamics of the temperate zone. Springer, New York, New York, USA.
15. Eriksson, O. 2000. Seed dispersal and colonization ability of plants - assessment and implications for conservation. Folia Geobotanica 35:115-123.
16. Fisher, R. 1937. The wave of advance of an advantageous gene. Annual Eugenics 7:355-369.
17. Heithaus, E. R. 1986. Seed dispersal mutualism and the population density of Asarum canadense, an ant-dispersed plant. Pages 199-210 in A. Estrada and T. H. Fleming, editors. Frugivores and seed dispersal. Dr. W. Junk, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
18. Hengeveld, R. 1989. Dynamics of biological invasions. Chapman and Hall, London, UK.
19. Higgins, S. I., and D. M. Richardson. 1999. Predicting plant migration rates in a changing world: the role of long-distance dispersal. American Naturalist 153:464-475.
20. Holmes, E. E., M. A. Lewis, J. E. Banks, and R. R. Veit. 1994. Partial differential equations in ecology: spatial interactions and population dynamics. Ecology 75:17-29.
21. Holmes, M. H. 1995. Introduction to perturbation methods. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
22. Huntley, B., and H. J. B. Birks. 1983. An atlas of past and present pollen maps for Europe: 0-13,000 years ago. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
23. Hutchins, H. E., and R. M. Lanner. 1982. The central role of Clark's nutcracker in the dipsersal and establishment of whitebark pine. Oecologia 55:192-201.
24. Iverson, L. R., and A. M. Prasad. 1998. Predicting abundance of 80 tree species following climate change in the eastern United States. Ecological Monographs 68:465-485.
25. Johnson, W. C., and C. S. Adkisson. 1985. Dispersal of beech nuts by blue jays in fragmented landscapes. American Midland Naturalist 113:319-324.
26. Johnson, W. C., and T. Webb III. 1989. The role of blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) in the postglacial dispersal of fagaceous trees in eastern North America. Journal of Biogeography 16:561-571.
27. King, G. A., and A. A. Herstrom. 1997. Holocene tree migration rates objectively determined from fossil pollen data. Pages 91-101 in B. Huntley, W. Cramer, A. V. Morgan, H. C. Prentice, and J. R. M. Allen, editors. Past and future rapid environmental changes: the spatial and evolutionary responses of terrestrial biota. NATO ASI Series I: Global Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
28. Kolmogorov, A., I. Petrovsky, and N. Piscounoiv. 1937. Etude de l'equation de la diffusion avec croissance de la quantite de la mati'ere et son application a un probl'eme biologique. Bulletin of University of Moscow, Series A 1: 1-25.
29. Kot, M. 1992. Discrete-time travelling waves: ecological examples. Journal of Mathematical Biology 30:413-436.
30. Kot, M., M. A. Lewis, and P. van den Driessche. 1996. Dispersal data and the spread of invading organisms. Ecology 77:2027-2042.
31. Kullman, L. 1996. Norway spruce present in the Scandes Mountains, Sweden at 8,000 BP: new light on Holocen tree spread. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 5:94-101.
32. Kullman, L. 1998. Paleoecological, biogeographical and paleoclimatological implications of early Holocene immigration of Larix sibirica Ledeb. into the Scandes mountains, Sweden. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 7:181-188.
33. Lang, G. 1994. Quartare Vegetationsgeschichte Europas. Fischer, Jena, Germany.
34. Lanner, R. M. 1980. Avian seed dispersal as a factor in the ecology and evolution of limber and whitebark pines. Pages 15-48 in B. P. Dancik and K. O. Higginbotham, editors. Sixth North American Forest Biology Workshop Proceedings. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
35. Lanner, R. M. 1982. Adaptations of whitebark pine Pinus albicaulis for seed dispersal by Clark's nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 12: 391-402.
36. Lanner, R. M. 1996. Made for each other. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.
37. Lewis, M. A. 2000. Spread rate for a nonlinear stochastic invasion. Journal of Mathematical Biology 41:430-454.
38. Lotter, A. F., H. J. B. Birks, U. Eicher, W. Hofmann, J. Schwander, and L. Wick. 2000. Younger Dryas and Allerod summer temperatures at Gerzensee (Switzerland) inferred from fossil pollen and cladoceran assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 159:349-361.
39. Matlack, G. R. 1994. Plant species migration in a mixed-history forest landscape in eastern North America. Ecology 75:1491-1502.
40. Melillo, J. M., I. C. Prentice, G. D. Farquhar, E. D. Schulze, and O. E. Sala. 1996. Terrestrial biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate. Pages 445-481 in J. T. Houghton, L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenburg, and K. Maskell, editors. Climate change 1995: the science of climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
41. Nathan, R., U. N. Safriel, and I. Noy Meir. 2001. Field validation and sensitivity analysis of a mechanistic model for tree seed dispersal by wind. Ecology 82:374-388.
42. Nathan, R., U. N. Safriel, I. Noy Meir, and G. Schiller. 2000. Spatiotemporal variation in seed dispersal and recruitment near and far from Pinus halepensis trees. Ecology 81:2156-2169.
43. Neubert, M. G., and H. Caswell. 2000. Demography and dispersal: calculation and sensitivity analysis of invasion speed for structured populations. Ecology 81:1613-1628.
44. Neubert, M. G., M. Kot, and M. A. Lewis. 1995. Dispersal and pattern formation in a discretetime predator-prey model. Theoretical Population Biology 48:7-43.
45. Okubo, A. 1980. Diffusion and ecological problems: mathematical models. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
46. Perkins, D. L. 2000. An assessment of successional status and factors affecting recruitment and mortality of treeline whitebark pine populations. Dissertation. Department of Forest Resources, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.
47. Portnoy, S., and M. F. Willson. 1993. Seed dispersal curves: behavior of the tail of the distribution. Evolutionary Ecology 7:25-44.
48. Prentice, L. C., P. J. Bartlein, and T. W. Webb III. 1991. Vegetation and climate change in eastern North America since the last glacial maximum. Ecology 72:2038-2056.
49. Reid, C. 1899. The Origin of british flora. Dulau, London, UK.
50. Schmidt, T. 1918. Die Verbreitung von Samen und Bluetenstaub durch die Luftbewegungen. Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 67:313-402.
51. Shigesada, N., and K. Kawasaki. 1997. Biological invasions: theory and practice. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
52. Shigesada, N., K. Kawasaki, and E. Teramoto. 1987. Traveling periodic waves in heterogeneous environments. Theoretical Population Biology 36:311-338.
53. Skellam, J. G. 1951. Random dispersal in theoretical populations. Biometrika 38:196-218.
54. Solomon, A. M., and A. P. Kirilenko. 1997. Climate change and terrestrial biomass: what if trees do not migrate? Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 6:139-148.
55. Solomon, A. M., M. L. Tharp, D. C. West, G. E. Taylor, J. W. Webb, and J. L. Trimble. 1984. Response of unmanaged forests to carbon dioxide-induced climate change: available information, initial tests and data requirements. Technical Report TR-009, United States Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., USA.
56. Stimm, B., and K. Boeswald. 1994. Jays and nutcrackers: the ecology and silvicultural importance of seed dispersal by birds. Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt 113(3-4):204-223.
57. Vander Wall, S. B. 1990. Food hoarding in animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
58. Vander Wall, S. B. 1993. Cache site selection by chipmunks (Tamias spp.) and its influence on the effectiveness of seed dispersal in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi). Oecologia 96:246-252.
59. Vander Wall, S. B. 1994. Removal of wind-dispersed pine seeds by ground-foraging vertebrates. Oikos, 69(1):125-132.
60. Vander Wall, S. B., and R. B. Balda. 1977. Coadaptations of the Clark's nutcracker and the piñon pine for efficient seed harvest and dispersal. Ecological Monographs 47:89-111.
61. Webb, T. L. 1986. Is vegetation in equilibrium with climate? How to interpret late-Quaternary pollen data. Vegetatio 67: 75-91.