Phylogenetic density dependence and environmental filtering predict seedling mortality in a tropical forest

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-41

  Paine, C E Timothy ^a   Norden, Natalia ^b,c   Chave, Jérôme ^d   Forget, Pierre Michel ^e   Fortunel, Claire ^a   Dexter, Kyle G ^d   Baraloto, Christopher ^a,f  

^a Campus Agronomique   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Density dependence; French Guiana; Generalised linear mixed models; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Seedling recruitment; Species coexistence; Survival

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY RISK; NATURAL ENEMY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RELATEDNESS; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEM; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ECOSYSTEM; FRENCH GUIANA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDLING; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 82455162421     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01705.x     Document Type: Article

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