Soil seedbank in a dipterocarp rain forest in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 328-333

  Tang, Yong ^a   Cao, Min ^a   Fu, Xianhui ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Forest regeneration; Soil seed germination; Tropical rain forest; Xishuangbanna

Indexed keywords

FOREST SOIL; GERMINATION; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED BANK;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XISHUANGBANNA; YUNNAN;

SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 33646505710     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00149.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bekker R. M. J. P. Bakker U. Grandin R. Kalamees P. Milberg P. Poschlod K. Thompson and J. H. Willems. 1998. Seed size, shape and vertical distribution in the soil: Indicators of seed longevity. Funct. Ecol. 12 834 842.
2. Cao M. Y. Tang C. Y. Sheng and J. H. Zhang. 2000. Viable seeds buried in the tropical forest soils of Xishuangbanna, SW China. Seed Sci. Res. 10 255 264.
3. Cao M. and J. H. Zhang. 1997. Tree species diversity of tropical forest vegetation in Xishuangbanna, SW China. Biodivers. Conserv. 6 995 1006.
4. Cheke A. S. W. Nanakorn and C. Yankoses. 1979. Dormancy and dispersal of seeds of secondary forest species under the canopy of a primary tropical rain forest in northern Thailand. Biotropica 11 88 95.
5. Dalling J. W. and J. S. Denslow. 1998. Soil seed bank composition along a forest chronosequence in seasonally moist tropical forest, Panama. J. Veg. Sci. 9 669 678.
6. Dalling J. W. and S. P. Hubbell. 2002. Seed size, growth rate and gap microsite conditions as determinants of recruitment success for pioneer species. J. Ecol. 90 557 568.
7. Dupuy J. M. and R. L. Chazdon. 1998. Long-term effects of forest regrowth and selective logging on the seed bank of tropical forests in NE Costa Rica. Biotropica 30 223 237.
8. Garwood N. C. 1989. Tropical soil seed banks: A review. In Leck M. A. Parker V. T. and Simpson R. L. Eds Ecology of soil seed banks pp. 149 209. Academic Press San Diego.
9. Grombone-Guaratini M. T. and Rodrigues R. R. 2002. Seed bank and seed rain in a seasonal semi-deciduous forest in south-eastern Brail. J. Trop. Ecol. 18 759 774.
10. Guo Q. J. H. Brown T. J. Valone and S. D. Kachman. 2000. Constraints of seed size on plant distribution and abundance. Ecology 81 2149 2155.
11. Hopkins M. S. and A. W. Graham. 1984. Viable soil seed banks in disturbed lowland tropical rain forest sites in North Queensland. Aust. J. Ecol. 9 71 79.
12. Li Y. S. Pei and Z. Xu. 1996. List of plants in Xishuangbanna. Yunnan Nationality Press Kunming in Chinese with English abstract
13. Li Q. 2002. Studies on conservation genetics of two endangered dipterocarps. Ph.D. dissertation Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming in Chinese with English abstract
14. Liew T. C. 1973. Occurrence of seeds in virgin forest topsoil with particular reference to secondary species in Sabah. Malay. For. 36 185 193.
15. Metcalfe D. J. and I. M. Turner. 1998. Soil seed bank from lowland rain forest in Singapore: Canopy-gap and litter-gap demanders. J. Trop. Ecol. 14 103 108.
16. Putz F. E. and S. Appanah. 1987. Buried seeds, newly dispersed seeds, and the dynamics of a lowland forest in Malaysia. Biotropica 19 326 333.
17. Quintana-Ascencio P. F. M. Gonzalez -E spinosa N. Ramirez -M arcial G. Dominguez -V azquez and M. Martinez -I co. 1996. Soil seed banks and regeneration of tropical rain forest from milpa fields at the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico. Biotropica 28 192 209.
18. Saulei S. M. and M. D. Swaine. 1988. Rain forest seed dynamics during succession at Gogol, Papua New Guinea. J. Ecol. 76 1133 1152.
19. Singhakumara B. M. P. R. S. J. P. Uduporuwa and P. M. S. Ashton. 2000. Soil seed banks in relation to light and topographic position of a hill dipterocarp forest in Sri Lanka. Biotropica 32 190 196.
20. Thompson K. 1992. The functional ecology of seed banks. In Fenner M. Ed Seeds: The ecology of regeneration in plant communities pp. 231 258. CAB International Wallingford.
21. Vazquez -Y anes C. and A. Orozco -S egovia. 1993. Patterns of seed longevity and germination in the tropical rain forest. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 24 69 87.
22. Whitmore T. C. 1983. Secondary succession from seed in tropical rain forests. For. Abstr. 44 767 779.
23. Whittaker R. J. 1995. Surface and buried seed banks from Krakatau, Indonesia: Implications for the sterilization hypothesis. Biotropica 27 346 354.
24. Young K. R. J. J. Ewel and B. J. Brown. 1987. Seed dynamics during forest succession in Costa Rica. Vegetatio 71 157 173.
25. Zhu H. 2000. Ecology and biogeography of the tropical dipterocarp rain forest in Xishuangbanna. Yunnan Science & Technology Press Kunming China in Chinese with English abstract
26. Zou H. M. Cao and H.B. Hu. 2006. Geological history, flora, and vegetation of Xishuangbanna, Southern Yunnan, China. Biotropica. DOI.