Temporal variability of forest communities: Empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 855-865

  Chisholm, Ryan A ^a,b   Condit, Richard ^a   Rahman, K A ^c   Baker, Patrick J ^d   Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh ^e   Chen, Yu Yun ^f   Chuyong, George ^g   Dattaraja, H S ^h   Davies, Stuart ⁱ   Ewango, Corneille E N ^j   Gunatilleke, C V S ^k   Nimal Gunatilleke, I A U ^k   Hubbell, Stephen ^a,l   Kenfack, David ⁱ   Kiratiprayoon, Somboon ^m   Lin, Yiching ⁿ   Makana, Jean Remy ^j   Pongpattananurak, Nantachai ^o   Pulla, Sandeep ^h   Punchi Manage, Ruwan ^p   Sukumar, Raman ^h   Su, Sheng Hsin ^q   Sun, I Fang ^f   Suresh, H S ^h   Tan, Sylvester ⁱ   Thomas, Duncan ^r   Yap, Sandra ^s   more..

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS   (Thailand)

^f NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^h INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

ⁱ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^j WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Congo)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

ⁿ TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^o KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^p UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^q TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^r OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

more..

Author keywords

Abundance fluctuations; Biodiversity; Demographic stochasticity; Environmental variance; Forest dynamics; Neutral theory; Niche stabilization

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ABUNDANCE FLUCTUATIONS; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHIC STOCHASTICITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NICHE STABILIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; TREE;

ABUNDANCE FLUCTUATIONS; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHIC STOCHASTICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; NEUTRAL THEORY; NICHE STABILIZATION;

ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84901657655     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12296     Document Type: Article

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