Hyperspectral remote detection of niche partitioning among canopy trees driven by blowdown gap disturbances in the Central Amazon

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-117

  Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a   Robertson, Amanda L ^a   Carneiro, Vilany M C ^b   Lima, Adriano J N ^b   Smith, Marie Louise ^c   Plourde, Lucie C ^d   Higuchi, Niro ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Competitor colonizer; Dispersal; Ecosystem; Forest; Mosaic; Tropical

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; CARBON BALANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SECONDARY SUCCESSION; STAND STRUCTURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CECROPIA; VISMIA;

EID: 64749099431     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1274-9     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. BA Anderson 1981 White-sand vegetation of Brazilian Amazonia Biotropica 13 199 210
2. GP Asner DE Knapp EN Broadbent 2005 Selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon Science 310 480 482
3. A Aubreville 1938 La foret coloniale: les forets de l'Afrique occidentale francaise Ann Acad Sci Coloniales 9 126 137
4. TR Baker OL Phillips Y Malhi 2004 Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass Global Change Biol 10 545 562
5. FA Bazzaz STA Pickett 1980 Physiological ecology of tropical succession: a comparative review Annu Rev Ecol Syst 11 287 310
6. Boardman JW (1998) Leveraging the high dimensionality of AVIRIS data for improved sub-pixel target unmixing and rejection of false positives:mixture tuned matched filtering. In: Summaries of the 7th JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, Pasadena, California
7. NVL Brokaw 1985 Gap-phase regeneration in a tropical forest Ecology 66 682 687
8. NVL Brokaw RT Busing 2000 Niche versus change and tree diversity in forest gaps Trends Ecol Evol 15 183 188
9. RJ Burnham 2004 Alpha and beta diversity of lianas in Yasuni, Ecuador For Ecol Manage 190 43 55
10. JQ Chambers N Higuchi LV Ferreira 2000 Decomposition and carbon cycling of dead trees in tropical forests of the central Amazon Oecologia 122 380 388
11. JQ Chambers J Santos RJ Ribeiro N Higuchi 2001 Tree damage, allometric relationships, and above-ground net primary production in a tropical forest For Ecol Manage 152 73 84
12. Chambers JQ, Van Eldik T, Southon J, Higuchi N (2001b) Tree age structure in tropical forests of Central Amazonia. In: Bierregaard ROJ, Gascon C, Lovejoy TE, Mesquita RCG (eds) Lessons from Amazonia. Yale Univeristy Press, New Haven, pp 68-78
13. JQ Chambers N Higuchi LM Teixeira 2004 Response of tree biomass and wood litter to disturbance in a Central Amazon forest Oecologia 141 596 614
14. JQ Chambers GP Asner DC Morton 2007 Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests Trends Ecol Evol 22 414 423
15. JQ Chambers JI Fisher H Zeng 2007 Hurricane Katrina's carbon footprint on US Gulf Coast forests Science 318 1107
16. J Chave 2004 Neutral theory and community ecology Ecol Lett 7 241 253
17. DA Clark DB Clark 1992 Life history diversity of canopy and emergent trees in a neotropical rain forest Ecol Monogr 62 315 344
18. R Condit N Pitman EG Leigh 2002 Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees Science 295 666 669
19. R Condit P Ashton S Bunyavejchewin 2006 The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity Science 313 98 101
20. JH Connell 1978 Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs Science 199 1302 1310
21. JW Dalling SP Hubbell K Silvera 1998 Seed dispersal, seedling establishment and gap partitioning among tropical pioneer trees J Ecol 86 674 689
22. JW Dalling HC Muller-Landau SJ Wright SP Hubbell 2002 Role of dispersal in the recruitment limitation of neotropical pioneer species J Ecol 90 714 727
23. B Datt TR [tmp] McVicar TG Van Niel 2003 Preprocessing EO-1 Hyperion hyperspectral data to support the application of agricultural indexes IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 41 1246 1259
24. JS Denslow 1980 Gap partitioning among tropical rainforest trees Biotropica 12 47 55
25. Denslow JS (1985) Disturbance-mediated coexistence of species. In: Pickett STA, White PS (eds) The ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 307-323
26. JS Denslow 1987 Tropical rainforest gaps and tree species diversity Annu Rev Ecol Syst 18 431 451
27. PM Fearnside 1997 Wood density for estimating forest biomass in Brazilian Amazonia For Ecol Manage 90 59 87
28. JI Fisher G Hurtt RQ Thomas JQ Chambers 2008 Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots Eco Lett 11 554 563
29. KJ Gaston SL Chown 2005 Neutrality and the niche Funct Ecol 19 1 6
30. D Gravel CD Canham M Beaudet C Messier 2006 Reconciling niche and neutrality: the continuum hypothesis Ecol Lett 9 399 409
31. AA Green M Berman P Switzer MD Craig 1988 A transformation for ordering multispectral data in terms of image quality with implications for noise removal IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 26 65 74
32. Hartshorn GS (1978) Tree falls and tropical forest dynamics. In: Tomlinson PB, Zimmerman MH (eds) Tropical trees as living systems. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp 617-638
33. RD Holt 2006 Emergent neutrality Trends Ecol Evol 21 531 533
34. Hubbell SP (2001) The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton
35. SP Hubbell 2006 Neutral theory and the evolution of ecological equivalence Ecology 87 1387 1398
36. SP Hubbell RB Foster ST O'Brien 1999 Light-cap disturbances, recruitment limitation, and tree diversity in a neotropical forest Science 283 554 557
37. GC Hurtt SW Pacala 1995 The consequeences of recruitment limitation: reconciling change, history and competitive differences between plants J Theor Biol 176 1 12
38. NJB Kraft R Valencia DD Ackerly 2008 Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an amazonian forest Science 322 580 582
39. FA Kruse JW Boardman JF Huntington 2003 Comparison of airborne hyperspectral data and EO-1 Hyperion for mineral mapping IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 41 1388 1400
40. WF Laurance AA Oliveira SG Laurance 2004 Pervasive alteration of tree communities in undisturbed Amazonian forests Nature 428 171 175
41. AE Lugo FN Scatena 1996 Background and catastrophic tree mortality in tropical moist, wet and rain forests Biotropica 28 585 599
42. Y Malhi J Grace 2000 Tropical forests and atmospheric carbon dioxide Trends Ecol Evol 15 332 337
43. Y Malhi TR Baker OL Phillips 2004 The above-ground wood productivity and net primary productivity of 100 Neotropical forests Glob Change Biol 10 563 591
44. BJ [tmp] McGill BA Maurer MD Weiser 2006 Empirical evaluation of neutral theory Ecology 87 1411 1423
45. BW Nelson V Kapos JB Adams 1994 Forest disturbance by large blowdowns in the Brazilian Amazon Ecology 75 853 858
46. EM Nogueira BW Nelson PM Fearnside 2005 Wood density in dense forest in central Amazonia, Brazil For Ecol Manage 208 261 286
47. OL Phillips TR Baker L Arroyo 2004 Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover: 1976-2001 Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 359 381 408
48. OL Phillips SL Lewis TR Baker 2008 The changing Amazon forest Phil Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 363 1819 1827
49. NCA Pitman JW Terborgh MR Silman 2001 Dominance and distribution of tree species in upper Amazonian terra firme forests Ecology 82 2101 2117
50. NCA Pitman CE Ceron CI Reyes 2005 Catastrophic natural origin of a species-poor tree community in the world's richest forest J Trop Ecol 21 559 568
51. M Rees R Condit M Crawley 2001 Long-term studies of vegetation dynamics Science 293 650 655
52. Ribeiro JELS, Hopkins MJG, Vicentini A et al (1999) Flora da Reserva Ducke. INPA-DFID, Manaus
53. RE Ricklefs 1977 Environmental heterogeneity and plant species diversity: a hypothesis Am Nat 111 376 381
54. DA Roberts MO Smith JB Adams 1993 Green-vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation, and soils in AVIRIS data Remote Sens Environ 44 255 269
55. SR Saleska SD Miller DM Matross 2003 Carbon in amazon forests: unexpected seasonal fluxes and disturbance-induced losses Science 302 1554 1557
56. D Sheil DFRP Burslem 2003 Disturbing hypotheses in tropical forests Trends Ecol Evol 18 18 26
57. CA Sierra ME Harmon FH Moreno 2007 Spatial and temporal variability of net ecosystem production in a tropical forest: testing the hypothesis of a significant carbon sink Glob Change Biol 13 838 853
58. J Silvertown 2004 Plant coexistence and the niche Trends Ecol Evol 19 605 611
59. CM Souza DA Roberts MA Cochrane 2005 Combining spectral and spatial information to map canopy damage from selective logging and forest fires Remote Sens Environ 98 329 343
60. DR Strong 1977 Epiphyte loads, tree falls, and perennial forest disruption: a mechanism for maintaining higher tree species richness in the tropics without animals J Biogeogr 4 215 218
61. MD Swaine TC Whitmore 1988 On the definition of ecological species groups in tropical rain forests Vegetatio 75 81 86
62. H ter Steege NCA Pitman OL Phillips 2006 Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia Nature 443 444 447
63. J Terborgh RB Foster P Nunez 1996 Tropical tree communites: a test of the nonequilibruim hypothesis Ecology 77 561 567
64. D Tilman 1994 Competition and biodiversity in spatially structured habitats Ecology 75 2 16
65. D Tilman 2004 Niche tradeoffs, neutrality, and community structure: a stochastic theory of resource competition, invasion, and community assembly Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101 10854 10861
66. TC Whitmore 1989 Canopy gaps and the two major groups of forest trees Ecology 70 536 538
67. Whitmore TC (1998) An introduction to tropical rain forests. Oxford University Press, NewYork
68. DW Yu HB Wilson 2001 The competition-colonization trade-off is dead; long live the competition-colonization trade-off Am Nat 158 49 63