Author: Karl August Otto Eichhorn
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Diversity and Composition of the Understorey Community in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Guyana
Author: Karl August Otto Eichhorn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Dynamics of Tropical Communities
Author: D. M. Newbery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521839990
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
This 1998 volume challenges the validity of the dynamic equilibrium concept for tropical forests.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521839990
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
This 1998 volume challenges the validity of the dynamic equilibrium concept for tropical forests.
Strategies in the Understorey
Author: Lonneke Versteeg
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Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Forests and Global Change
Author: David A. Coomes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041856
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book synthesises recent research across temperate and tropical forest ecosystems, to present the numerous ways forests are responding to global change.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041856
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book synthesises recent research across temperate and tropical forest ecosystems, to present the numerous ways forests are responding to global change.
Botanical Diversity in the Tropical Rain Forest of Guyana
Author: Renske C. Ek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789039317730
Category : Rain forests
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The flora of the Mabura Hill area, Guyana. Vertical distribution and associations of vascular epiphytes in four different forest types in the Guianas. Botanical diversity of Greenheart dominated mixed rain forest near Mabura Hill, Guyana...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789039317730
Category : Rain forests
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The flora of the Mabura Hill area, Guyana. Vertical distribution and associations of vascular epiphytes in four different forest types in the Guianas. Botanical diversity of Greenheart dominated mixed rain forest near Mabura Hill, Guyana...
Nouragues
Author: F. Bongers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401598215
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana. It was established in 1986 for research on natural mechanisms of forest regeneration. Since then a lot of research has been done on this and related topics. This book provides an overview of the main research results, and focuses on plant communities, vertebrate communities and evolutionary ecology, frugivory and seed dispersal, and forest dynamics and recruitment. The appendices give (annoted) checklists of plants, birds, mammals, herpetofauna and fishes found in the same area.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401598215
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Nouragues is a tropical forest research station in French Guiana. It was established in 1986 for research on natural mechanisms of forest regeneration. Since then a lot of research has been done on this and related topics. This book provides an overview of the main research results, and focuses on plant communities, vertebrate communities and evolutionary ecology, frugivory and seed dispersal, and forest dynamics and recruitment. The appendices give (annoted) checklists of plants, birds, mammals, herpetofauna and fishes found in the same area.
Does neutral theory explain community composition in the Guiana Shield forests?
Author: Olaf Bánki Sicco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789039353271
Category : Biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Recent years have seen a fierce debate about the causes of beta-diversity, the change in species composition over landscapes, in tropical rainforests. The introduction of neutral models has spurred this debate, by assuming that species composition changes randomly over landscapes with dispersal limitation as the driving ecological process. In this study the interaction between local and regional diversity of trees is investigated. We inventoried 61 1-ha plots in forests on brown and white sands, and on bauxite mountains in Guyana and Suriname. These data combined with earlier data led to the first biogeographical study on a species level involving 156 forest plots ranging from Venezuela to French Guiana. Forest composition changed dramatically between forest types, and at geographical distances. In general, forest composition followed geological patterns in the Guianas. Differences in plant attributes between the forest groups revealed a spectrum in covariation. On the one end of this spectrum a high dominance of trees with large seeds in dry fruits was combined with high wood densities in several forest types. On the other end a high dominance of trees and species with smaller seeds in fleshy fruits was combined with relatively low community averaged wood density. This spectrum could reflect different colonizing strategies of trees in the forest types, and could have an effect on potential dispersers. With neutral-like dynamical community models, different hypotheses on the low diversity of the white sand forest were evaluated. Forests on white and brown sands draw their species from different regional species pools. We provide strong evidence that asymmetric environmental filtering and a lower regional diversity (possibly due to the smaller size of the white sand area) could influence the lower diversity found in white sand forests compared with neighboring brown sand.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789039353271
Category : Biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Recent years have seen a fierce debate about the causes of beta-diversity, the change in species composition over landscapes, in tropical rainforests. The introduction of neutral models has spurred this debate, by assuming that species composition changes randomly over landscapes with dispersal limitation as the driving ecological process. In this study the interaction between local and regional diversity of trees is investigated. We inventoried 61 1-ha plots in forests on brown and white sands, and on bauxite mountains in Guyana and Suriname. These data combined with earlier data led to the first biogeographical study on a species level involving 156 forest plots ranging from Venezuela to French Guiana. Forest composition changed dramatically between forest types, and at geographical distances. In general, forest composition followed geological patterns in the Guianas. Differences in plant attributes between the forest groups revealed a spectrum in covariation. On the one end of this spectrum a high dominance of trees with large seeds in dry fruits was combined with high wood densities in several forest types. On the other end a high dominance of trees and species with smaller seeds in fleshy fruits was combined with relatively low community averaged wood density. This spectrum could reflect different colonizing strategies of trees in the forest types, and could have an effect on potential dispersers. With neutral-like dynamical community models, different hypotheses on the low diversity of the white sand forest were evaluated. Forests on white and brown sands draw their species from different regional species pools. We provide strong evidence that asymmetric environmental filtering and a lower regional diversity (possibly due to the smaller size of the white sand area) could influence the lower diversity found in white sand forests compared with neighboring brown sand.
Productivity and Resource Availability in Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Guyana
Author: Raquel Simone Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The American Naturalist
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Composition and Structure of the Tree Community in a Lowland Rain Forest in South Cameroon
Author: D. Flier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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