Temporal population variability in local forest communities has mixed effects on tree species richness across a latitudinal gradient

Tak Fung, Ryan A. Chisholm, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Norm Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, Rutuja Chitra-Tarak, George Chuyong, Richard Condit, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Stuart J. Davies, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Gary Fewless, Christine Fletcher, C. V.Savitri Gunatilleke, I. A.U.Nimal Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, J. Aaron Hogan, Robert HoweChang Fu Hsieh, David Kenfack, Yi Ching Lin, Keping Ma, Jean Remy Makana, Sean McMahon, William J. McShea, Xiangcheng Mi, Anuttara Nathalang, Perry S. Ong, Geoffrey Parker, E. Ping Rau, Jessica Shue, Sheng Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I. Fang Sun, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Jill Thompson, Renato Valencia, Martha I. Vallejo, Xugao Wang, Yunquan Wang, Pushpa Wijekoon, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap, Jess Zimmerman

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Among the local processes that determine species diversity in ecological communities, fluctuation-dependent mechanisms that are mediated by temporal variability in the abundances of species populations have received significant attention. Higher temporal variability in the abundances of species populations can increase the strength of temporal niche partitioning but can also increase the risk of species extinctions, such that the net effect on species coexistence is not clear. We quantified this temporal population variability for tree species in 21 large forest plots and found much greater variability for higher latitude plots with fewer tree species. A fitted mechanistic model showed that among the forest plots, the net effect of temporal population variability on tree species coexistence was usually negative, but sometimes positive or negligible. Therefore, our results suggest that temporal variability in the abundances of species populations has no clear negative or positive contribution to the latitudinal gradient in tree species richness.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)160-171
Número de páginas12
PublicaciónEcology Letters
Volumen23
N.º1
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 ene. 2020

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