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      Mesoscale distribution patterns of Amazonian understorey herbs in relation to topography, soil and watersheds

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          Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees.

          The high alpha-diversity of tropical forests has been amply documented, but beta-diversity-how species composition changes with distance-has seldom been studied. We present quantitative estimates of beta-diversity for tropical trees by comparing species composition of plots in lowland terra firme forest in Panama, Ecuador, and Peru. We compare observations with predictions derived from a neutral model in which habitat is uniform and only dispersal and speciation influence species turnover. We find that beta-diversity is higher in Panama than in western Amazonia and that patterns in both areas are inconsistent with the neutral model. In Panama, habitat variation appears to increase species turnover relative to Amazonia, where unexpectedly low turnover over great distances suggests that population densities of some species are bounded by as yet unidentified processes. At intermediate scales in both regions, observations can be matched by theory, suggesting that dispersal limitation, with speciation, influences species turnover.
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            Dispersal, environment, and floristic variation of western Amazonian forests.

            The distribution of plant species, the species compositions of different sites, and the factors that affect them in tropical rain forests are not well understood. The main hypotheses are that species composition is either (i) uniform over large areas, (ii) random but spatially autocorrelated because of dispersal limitation, or (iii) patchy and environmentally determined. Here we test these hypotheses, using a large data set from western Amazonia. The uniformity hypothesis gains no support, but the other hypotheses do. Environmental determinism explains a larger proportion of the variation in floristic differences between sites than does dispersal limitation; together, these processes explain 70 to 75% of the variation. Consequently, it is important that management planning for conservation and resource use take into account both habitat heterogeneity and biogeographic differences.
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              Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot

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                Journal
                Journal of Ecology
                J Ecology
                Wiley-Blackwell
                0022-0477
                1365-2745
                October 2005
                October 2005
                : 93
                : 5
                : 863-878
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                10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01020.x
                c1845be3-c7ff-42b0-b0e2-d981867ac592
                © 2005

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1

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