Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5901, 2008, Pages 580-582

  Kraft, Nathan J B ^a   Valencia, Renato ^b   Ackerly, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WOOD;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 54949111699     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160662     Document Type: Article

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31. N.J.B.K. is grateful to A. Martin, L. Williams, P. Alvia, and L. Dunn for field assistance and to A. Thompson, T. Aftandilians, and M. Piven for help with sample analysis. Leaf trait collection was supported by the Center for Tropical Forest Science and the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology. We benefited from interactions with R. Condit, W. Cornwell, P. Fine, S. Kembel, J. Lake, M. Metz, N. Swenson, and four anonymous reviewers. S. J. Wright and N. Garwood generously provided unpublished seed data from collection efforts supported by NSF grants DEB-614525, DEB-614055, and DEB-614659. R.V. thanks the government of Ecuador (Donaciones de Impuesto a la Renta 2004-2006), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, the Mellon Foundation, the Tupper Family Foundation, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and NSF (grants DEB-0090311 and DEB-9806828) for support of the forest census. This research was possible because of the kind permission of the Ministerio del Ambiente of Ecuador.