Nonrandom processes maintain diversity in tropical forests

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5760, 2006, Pages 527-531

  Wills, Christopher ^a   Harms, Kyle E ^b,c   Condit, Richard ^c   King, David ^d   Thompson, Jill ^e   He, Fangliang ^f   Muller Landau, Helene C ^g   Ashton, Peter ^d   Losos, Elizabeth ^c   Comita, Liza ^h   Hubbell, Stephen ^h   LaFrankie, James ⁱ   Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh ^j   Dattaraja, H S ^k   Davies, Stuart ^d   Esufali, Shameema ^l   Foster, Robin ^m   Gunatilleke, Nimal ^l   Gunatilleke, Savitri ^l   Hall, Pamela ⁿ   Itoh, Akira ^o   John, Robert ^p   Kiratiprayoon, Somboon ^q   De Lao, Suzanne Loo ^c   Massa, Marie ^c   Nath, Cheryl ^k   Noor, Md Nur Supardi ^r   Kassim, Abdul Rahman ^r   Sukumar, Raman ^k   Suresh, Hebbalalu Satyanarayana ^k   Sun, I Fang ^s   Tan, Sylvester ^t   Yamakura, Takuo ^o   Zimmerman, Jess ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

ⁱ NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^j DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS   (Thailand)

^k INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^m FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

ⁿ FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^q THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^r FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^s TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^t FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; FORESTRY;

COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS; TROPICAL FORESTS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERSITY INDEX; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; HYPOTHESIS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; FORESTRY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 31544475713     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1117715     Document Type: Article

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30. This work was carried out during the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTF5) Analytical Workshop Series. Supported by NSF grant no. 0090311 of the Research Coordination Network Program and the CTF5 Research Grant Program. Data collections were funded, in part, by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Royal Forest Department (Thailand), Sarawak Forest Department (Malaysia), University of Puerto Rico (USA), International Institute for Tropical Forestry (Puerto Rico), NSF grants to the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research site, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, National Institute of Environmental Studies (Japan), and other grants from the NSF, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Agora Foundation, and the Frank H. Levinson Donor-Advised Fund at the Peninsula Community Foundation. The authors are grateful to J. Kohn, D. Holway, W. Jetz and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.