Micro-topographic differentiation of the tree species composition in a subtropical submontane rainforest in northeastern Taiwan

Taiwan Journal of Forest Science

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-80

  Su, Sheng Hsin ^a   Hsieh, Chang Fu ^b   Chang Yang, Chia Hao ^b   Lu, Chia Ling ^b   Guan, Biing T ^b  

^a TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fushan Forest Dynamics Plot; Habitat association; Indicator species; Micro topography; Niche differentiation

Indexed keywords

FOREST DYNAMICS; HABITAT ASSOCIATION; INDICATOR SPECIES; MICRO-TOPOGRAPHY; NICHE DIFFERENTIATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; TOPOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; SLOPE; TAIWAN; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953201199     PISSN: 10264469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. th ed. New York: Wiley. 774 p.
2. Bond WJ, Midgley JJ. 2001. Ecology of sprouting in woody plants: the persistence niche. Trends Ecol Evol 16(1):45-51. (Pubitemid 32102348)
3. Breiman L. 1984. Classification and regression trees. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth International Group. 358 p.
4. Chen MC, Ho HC. 2001. The effect of precipitation on the variation of soil water potential of slopes in Fushan Experimental Forest. Q J Chin For 34(1):49-61. [in Chinese with English summary].
5. Chen ZS, Hsieh CF, Jiang FY, Hsieh TH, Sun IF. 1997. Relations of soil properties to topography and vegetation in a subtropical rain forest in southern Taiwan. Plant Ecol 132:229-41.
6. Clark DB, Palmer MW, Clark DA. 1999. Edaphic factors and the landscape-scale distributions of tropical rain forest trees. Ecology 80(8):2662-75. (Pubitemid 30001012)
7. Condit R. 1998. Tropical forest census plots: methods and results from Barro Colorado Island, Panama and a comparison with other plots. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. 211 p.
8. De'ath G. 2002. Multivariate regression trees: a new technique for modeling species-environment relationships. Ecology 83(4):1105-17. (Pubitemid 36531000)
9. De'ath G. 2007. mvpart: multivariate partitioning. R package, version 1.2-6. http://cran.r-project.org/.
10. De'ath G, Fabricius KE. 2000. Classification and regression trees: a powerful yet simple technique for ecological data analysis. Ecology 81(11):3178-92.
11. Dufrêne M, Legendre P. 1997. Species assemblages and indicator species: the need for a flexible asymmetrical approach. Ecol Monogr 67(3):345-66.
12. nd ed. Taipei, Taiwan: Department of Botany, National Taiwan University.
13. Enoki T. 2003. Microtopography and distribution of canopy trees in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Japan. Ecol Res 18:103-13. (Pubitemid 36391801)
14. Grubb PJ. 1986. Problems posed by sparse and patchily distributed species in speciesrich plant communities. In: Diamond J, Case TJ, editors. Community ecology. New York: Harper & Row. p 207-25.
15. Gunatilleke CVS, et al. 2006. Species-habitat associations in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest. J Trop Ecol 22:371-84.
16. Harms KE, Condit R, Hubbell SP, Foster RB. 2001. Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot. J Ecol 89:947-59. (Pubitemid 34020984)
17. Helms J, Munzel U. 2008. npmc: Nonpara metric multiple comparisons. R package, version 1.0-7. http://cran.r-project.org/.
18. Hsieh CF, Chao WC, Liao CC, Yang KC, Hsieh TH. 1997. Floristic composition of the evergreen broad-leaved forests of Taiwan. Nat Hist Res Special Issue No. 4:1-16.
19. Hubbell SP. 2001. The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press. 375 p.
20. Hubbell SP, et al. 1999. Light-gap disturbances, recruitment limitation, and tree diversity in a neotropical forest. Science 283:554-7.
21. Hubbell SP, Foster RB. 1986. Biology, chance and history and the structure of tropical rain forest tree communities. In: Diamond J, Case TJ, editors. Community ecology. New York: Harper & Row. p 314-29.
22. John R, et al. 2007. Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104(3):864-9. (Pubitemid 46154702)
23. Kubota Y, Murata H, Kikuzawa K. 2004. Effects of topographic heterogeneity on tree species richness and stand dynamics in a subtropical forest in Okinawa Island, southern Japan. J Ecol 92(2):230-40. (Pubitemid 38448460)
24. Legendre P, Borcard D, Peres-Neto PR. 2005. Analyzing beta diversity: partitioning the spatial variation of community composition data. Ecol Monogr 75(4):435-50. (Pubitemid 41476777)
25. Liao WC. 2005. Spatial variation of soil properties in the Fushan 25 ha permanent research site of Fushan natural broadleaf forest. [Master dissertation] Taipei, Taiwan: Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University. 90 p. [in Chinese with English summary].
26. Lin TC, et al. 2003. Influence of typhoon disturbances on the understory light regime and stand dynamics of a subtropical rain forest in northeastern Taiwan. J For Res 8:139-45.
27. Losos EC, Leigh EG. 2004. Tropical forest diversity and dynamism: findings from a largescale plot network. Chicago, IL: Univ of Chicago Press. 645 p.
28. Lu SY, Huang HH, Chen CH, Lian HJ. 2000. Compilation of meterological and streamflow records for Fushan Experimental Watersheds (1982-1999). Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwan Forestry Research Institute. 171 p. [in Chinese].
29. Mabry CM, Hamburg SP, Lin TC, Horng FW, King HB, Hsia YJ. 1998. Typhoon disturbance and stand-level damage patterns at a subtropical forest in Taiwan. Biotropica 30(2):238-50. (Pubitemid 29025370)
30. Munzel U, Hothorn LA. 2001. A unified approach to simultaneous rank test procedures in the unbalanced one-way layout. Biometr J 43(5):553-69. (Pubitemid 33588680)
31. Noguchi Y. 1992a. Hydrometeorological differences between opposite valley slopes and vegetation asymmetry in Hawaii. J Veg Sci 3(2):231-8.
32. Noguchi Y. 1992b. Vegetation asymmetry in Hawaii under the trade-wind regime. J Veg Sci 3(2):223-30.
33. Potts MD, Davies SJ, Bossert WH, Tan S, Supardi MNN. 2004. Habitat heterogeneity and niche structure of trees in two tropical rain forests. Oecologia 139(3):446-53. (Pubitemid 39246715)
34. Poulsen AD, Tuomisto H, Balslev H. 2006. Edaphic and floristic variation within a 1-ha plot of lowland Amazonian rain forest. Biotropica 38(4):468-78. (Pubitemid 43873533)
35. R Development Core Team. 2008. R: A language and environment for statistical computing, version 2.8.1. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. http://www.r-project.org/.
36. Roberts DW. 2007. labdsv: Ordination and multivariate analysis for ecology. R package, version 1.3-1. http://ecology.msu.montana.edu/labdsv/R.
37. Su HJ. 1984. Studies on the climate and vegetation types of the natural forests in Taiwan (II): altitudinal vegetation zones in relation to temperature gradient. Q J Chin For 17(4):57-73.
38. Su HJ. 1985. Studies on the climate and vegetation types of the natural forests in Taiwan (III): a scheme of geographical climatic regions. Q J Chin For 18(3):33-44.
39. Sun IF, Hsieh CF, Hubbell SP. 1998. Structure and species composition of a sub-tropical rain forest in southern Taiwan on a wind-stress gradient. In: Dallmeier F, Comiskey JA, editors. Forest biodiversity research, monitoring and modeling: conceptual background and old world case studies, vol. 20. Paris: Parthenon Publishing Co. p 563-90.
40. Su SH, et al. 2007. Fushan subtropical forest dynamics plot: tree species characteristics and distribution patterns. Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwan Forestry Research Institute. 272 p.
41. Therneau TM, Atkinson B, Ripley B. 2009. rpart: recursive partitioning. R package, version 3.1.-45. http://cran.r-project.org/.
42. Tuomisto H, Ruokolainen K, Yli-Halla M. 2003. Dispersal, environment, and floristic variation of western Amazonian forests. Science 299:241-4. (Pubitemid 36125208)
43. Valencia R, et al. 2004. Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador. J Ecol 92:214-29. (Pubitemid 38448459)
44. Wang BC, Smith TB. 2002. Closing the seed dispersal loop. Trends Ecol Evol 17(8):379-85. (Pubitemid 34775259)
45. Wang HH, Sen YC, Kao YC. 2002. Variation in vegetation structure for different microland-forms of a steep forest plot in the Fushan Experimental Forest, northern Taiwan. Taiwan J For Sci 17(1):99-112. [in Chinese with English summary].
46. Whitfield J. 2002. Ecology: neutrality versus the niche. Nature 417:480-1.
47. Wright J. 2002. Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence. Oecologia 130:1-14.