Seed dynamics of early and late successional tree species in tropical abandoned pastures: Seed burial as a way of evading predation

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 435-443

  Garcia Orth, Ximena ^a   Martinez Ramos, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Abandoned pasture fields; Direct sowing; Early and late successional species; Germination, Mexico; Rainforest restoration; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; GERMINATION; PASTURE; RAINFOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BURIAL; SEED PREDATION; SEED TREATMENT; SOWING;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

BOS; BROSIMUM; CECROPIA; CECROPIA OBTUSIFOLIA; DIALIUM GUIANENSE; INVERTEBRATA; OCHROMA PYRAMIDALE; SPOROPHILA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51849149066     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00320.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Aide, T. M., and J. Cavelier. 1994. Barriers to lowland tropical forest restoration in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Restoration Ecology 2: 219-229.
2. Alvarez-Buylla, E., and R. Garcia-Barrios. 1991. Seed and forest dynamics: A theoretical framework and an example from the Neotropics. American Naturalist 137: 133-154.
3. Alvarez-Buylla, E., and M. Martínez-Ramos. 1990. Seed bank versus seed rain in the regeneration of a tropical pioneer tree. Oecologia 84: 314-325.
4. Arreola, M. A. 1996. Marginación y uso del suelo en Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas. Mecanoscrito. MCDRR-UACH. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
5. Blain, D., and M. Kellman. 1991. The effect of water supply on tree seed germination and seedling survival in a tropical seasonal forest in Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 7: 69-83.
6. Calderón, L. A., R. C. L. Teles, J. R. S. A. Leite, C. Bloch Jr, S. Astolfi-Filho, and S. M. Freitas. 2001. Serine protease inhibitors from Amazon Leguminosae seeds: Purification and preliminary characterization of two chymotrypsin inhibitors from Inga umbratica. Protein and Peptide Letters 8: 485-493.
7. Camargo, J. L. C., I. D. K. Ferraz, and A. M. Imakawa. 2002. Rehabilitation of degraded areas of Central Amazonia using direct sowing of forest tree seeds. Restoration Ecology 10: 636-644.
8. Comisión Nacional Forestal. 2006. Reglas de Operación de los Programas de Desarrollo Forestal de la Comisión Nacional Forestal. Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Gobierno Federal Mexicano.
9. Crawley, M. J. 1993. GLIM for ecologists. Blackwell Science, Oxford, United Kingdom.
10. Da Silva, J. M. C., C. Uhl, and G. Murray. 1996. Plant succession, landscape management, and the ecology of frugivorous birds in abandoned Amazonian pastures. Conservation Biology 10: 491-503.
11. De Jong, B. H. J., S. Ochoa-Gaona, M. A. Castillo-Santiago, N. Ramírez-Marcial, and M. A. Cairos. 2000. Carbon flux and patterns of land-use/land-cover change in the Selva Lacandona, Mexico. Ambio 29: 504-511.
12. Dunn, R. R. 2004. Managing the tropical landscape: A comparison of the effects of logging and forest conversion to agriculture on ants, birds, and Lepidoptera. Forest Ecology and Management 191: 215-224.
13. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). 1988. World reference base for soil resources. International Society of Soil Science and International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), Rome, Italy.
14. Fornara, D. A., and J. W. Dalling. 2005. Post-dispersal removal of seeds of pioneer species from five Panamanian forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21: 79-84.
15. García, E. 1987. Modificaciones al sistema de clasificación climática de Köppen. Instituto de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
16. García-Gil, J. G., and J. H. Lugo. 1992. Las formas del relieve y los tipos de vegetación en la Selva Lacandona. Pages 39-49 in M. A. Vásquez-Sánchez and M. A. Ramos, editors. Reserva de la Biosfera Montes Azules, Selva Lacandona: Investigación para su conservación. Centro de Estudios para la Conservación de los Recursos Naturales, A.C. Publ. Esp. Ecosfera, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
17. Guariguata, M. R., and M. A. Pinard. 1998. Ecological knowledge of regeneration from seed in neotropical forest trees: Implications for natural forest management. Forest Ecology and Management 112: 87-99.
18. Hammond, D. S. 1995. Post-dispersal seed and seedling mortality of tropical dry forest trees after shifting agriculture, Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 11: 295-313.
19. Holl, K. D. 1999. Factors limiting tropical moist forest regeneration in agricultural land: Seed rain, seed germination, microclimate and soil. Biotropica 31: 229-242.
20. Holl, K. D. 2002. Effect of shrubs on tree seedling establishment in an abandoned tropical pasture. Journal of Ecology 90: 179-187.
21. Holl, K. D., M. E. Loik, E. H. V. Lin, and I. A. Samuels. 2000. Restoration of tropical rain forest in abandoned pastures in Costa Rica: overcoming barriers to dispersal and establishment. Restoration Ecology 8: 339-349.
22. Holl, K. D., and M. E. Lulow. 1997. Effect of species, habitat and distance from edge on post-dispersal seed predation in a tropical rainforest. Biotropica 29: 459-468.
23. Ibarra-Manríquez, G., and M. Martínez-Ramos. 2002. Landscape variation of liana communities in a Neotropical rain forest. Plant Ecology 160: 91-112.
24. Ibarra-Manriquez, G., M. Martínez-Ramos, and K. Oyama. 2001. Seedling functional types in a lowland rainforest in Mexico. American Journal of Botany 88: 1801-1812.
25. Janzen, D. H. 1969. Seed-eaters versus seed size, number, toxicity, and dispersal. International Journal of Organic Evolution 23: 1-27.
26. Janzen, D. H. 1971. Seed predation by animals. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 2: 465-492.
27. Jones, F. A., C. J. Peterson, and B. L. Haines. 2003. Seed predation in neotropical pre-montane pastures: Site, distance, and species effects. Biotropica 35: 219-225.
28. Kobe, R. K. 1999. Light gradient partitioning among tropical tree species through differential seedling mortality and growth. Ecology 80: 187-201.
29. Lazcano-Barrero, M. A., I. J. March, and M. A. Vásquez. 1992. Importancia, situación actual y perspectivas de conservación en la Selva Lacandona. Pages 393-436 in M. A. Vásquez and M. A. Ramos, editors. Reserva de la Biosfera Montes Azules, Selva Lacandona: Investigación para su conservación. Centro de Estudios para la Conservación de los Recursos Naturales, A.C. Publ. Esp. Ecosfera, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
30. Levy-Tacher, S., and J. Duncan-Golicher. 2004. How predictive is traditional ecological knowledge? The case of the Lacandon Maya fallow enrichment system. Interciencia 29: 496-503.
31. Martínez-Garza, C., V. Peña, M. Ricker, A. Campos, and H. F. Howe. 2005. Restoring tropical biodiversity: Leaf traits predict growth and survival of late-successional trees in early-successional environments. Forest Ecology and Management 217: 365-379.
32. Martínez-Ramos, M., and X. Garcia-Orth. Sucesión ecológica y restauración de las selvas húmedas. Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México 80 (Supplement): 69-84
33. Miyawaki, A. 2004. Restoration of living environment based on vegetation ecology: Theory and practice. Ecological Research 19: 83-90.
34. Moles, A. T., D. I. Warton, and M. Westoby. 2003. Do small-seeded species have higher survival through seed predation than large-seeded species? Ecology 84: 3148-3161.
35. Mull, J. F., and J. A. MacMahon. 1997. Spatial variation in rates of seed removal by harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex occidentalis) in a shrub-steppe ecosystem. American Midland Naturalist 138: 1-13.
36. Nepstad D. C., C. Uhl, C. A. Pereira, and J. M. C. Da Silva. 1996. A comparative study of tree establishment in abandoned pastures and mature forest of Eastern Amazonia. Oikos 76: 25-39.
37. Notman, E. M., and D. L. Gorchov. 2001. Variation in post-dispersal seed predation in mature Peruvian lowland tropical forest and fallow agricultural sites. Biotropica 33: 621-636.
38. Ostfeld, R. S., R. H. Manson, and C. D. Canham. 1997. Effects of rodents on survival of tree seeds and seedlings invading old fields. Ecology 78: 1531-1542.
39. Paz, H., S. J. Mazer, and M. Martínez-Ramos. 1999. Seed mass, seedling emergence, and environmental factors in seven rain forest Psychotria (Rubiaceae). Ecology 80: 1594-1606.
40. Peña-Claros, M., and H. De Boo. 2002. The effect of forest successional stage on seed removal of tropical rain forest tree species. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18: 261-274.
41. Sánchez-Cordero, V., and R. Martínez-Gallardo. 1998. Postdispersal fruit and seed removal by forest-dwelling rodents in a lowland rainforest in México. Journal of Tropical Ecology 14: 139-151.
42. Siebe, C., M. Martínez-Ramos, G. Segura Warnholtz, J. Rodríguez-Velázquez, and S. Sánchez-Bletrán. 1995. Soils and vegetation patterns in the tropical rain forest at Chajul, Southeast México. Pages 40-58 in J. Benítez-Malvido and D. Simorangkir, editors. Proceedings of the international congress on soils of tropical forest ecosystems. 3rd Conference on Forest Soils. Mulwarman University Press, Samarinda, Indonesia.
43. Vander Wall, S. B., K. M. Kuhn, and M. J. Beck. 2005. Seed removal, seed predation, and secondary dispersal. Ecology 86: 801-806.
44. Vasconcelos, H. L. 1999. Effects of forest disturbance on the structure of ground-foraging ant communities in central Amazonia. Biodiversity and Conservation 8: 409-420.
45. Vázquez-Yanes, C., A. I. Batis-Muñoz, M. I. Alcocer-Silva, M. Gual-Díaz, and C. Sánchez-Dirzo. 1999. Árboles y arbustos potencialmente valiosos para la restauración ecológica y la reforestación. Reporte técnico del proyecto J084-CONABIO. Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
46. Vázquez-Yanes, C., and A. Orozco-Segovia. 1993. Patterns of seed longevity and germination in the tropical rainforest. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 24: 69-87.
47. Vázquez-Yanes, C., and H. Smith. 1982. Phytochrome control of seed germination in the tropical rain forest pioneer trees Cecropia obtusifolia and Piper auritum and its ecological significance. New Phytologist 92: 477-485.
48. Wijdeven, S. M. J., and M. E. Kuzee. 2000. Seed availability as a limiting factor in forest recovery processes in Costa Rica. Restoration Ecology 8: 414-424.
49. Woods, K., and S. Elliott. 2004. Direct seeding for forest restoration on abandoned agricultural land in Northern Thailand. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 16: 248-259.
50. Zimmerman, J. K., J. B. Pascarella, and T. M. Aide. 2000. Barriers to forest regeneration in an abandoned pastures in Puerto Rico. Restoration Ecology 8: 350-360.