| Autor: |
Yuxin Chen, Natalia Umaña, María, Uriarte, María, Shixiao Yu |
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; 4/11/2018, Vol. 285 Issue 1876, p1-8, 8p |
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Why tropical forests harbour an exceptional number of species with striking differences in abundances remains an open question.We propose a theoretical framework to address this question in which rare species may have different extirpation risks depending on species ranks in tree growth and sensitivities to neighbourhood interactions. To evaluate the framework, we studied tree growth and its responses to neighbourhood dissimilarity (ND) in traits and phylogeny for 146 species in a neotropical forest. We found that tree growth was positively related toND, and common specieswere more strongly affected by ND than rare species, which may help delay dominance of common species. Rare species grew more slowly at the community-wide average ND than common species. But rare species grew faster when common species tended to dominate locally, which may help reduce extirpation risk of rare species. Our study highlights that tree growth rank among species depends on their responses to neighbourhood interactions, which can be important in fostering diversity maintenance in tropical forests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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