TY - JOUR
T1 - Species coexistence in temperate, mixed deciduous forests
AU - Nakashizuka, Tohru
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank H. Tanaka and K. Hoshizaki for their comments and suggestions regarding this article. Many of my insights have come from long-term studies in Ogawa Forest, which were funded by the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, Japan. My work has also been supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, Japan (grant numbers 08454250 and 09NP1501).
PY - 2001/4/1
Y1 - 2001/4/1
N2 - The response of tree life-history traits to community profiles (horizontal and vertical heterogeneity, disturbances and biotic interactions) determines community assembly rules, which are currently a hot issue in community ecology. Important mechanisms of coexistence differ throughout the developing stages of tree life history. Many processes of niche partitioning and tradeoffs that potentially enable tree coexistence have been reported to be present in temperate forests, although some of these life-history traits are either correlated with each other or are not independent. Not all of the proposed mechanisms explain coexistence equally well; some could predominate in determining the community organization of forest communities. Population studies need to concentrate more on the component species of a target community to detect the ecological assembly rule. These approaches can also address how chance factors contribute to the composition of temperate tree communities, which might be less dependent on chance than are tropical ones.
AB - The response of tree life-history traits to community profiles (horizontal and vertical heterogeneity, disturbances and biotic interactions) determines community assembly rules, which are currently a hot issue in community ecology. Important mechanisms of coexistence differ throughout the developing stages of tree life history. Many processes of niche partitioning and tradeoffs that potentially enable tree coexistence have been reported to be present in temperate forests, although some of these life-history traits are either correlated with each other or are not independent. Not all of the proposed mechanisms explain coexistence equally well; some could predominate in determining the community organization of forest communities. Population studies need to concentrate more on the component species of a target community to detect the ecological assembly rule. These approaches can also address how chance factors contribute to the composition of temperate tree communities, which might be less dependent on chance than are tropical ones.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02117-6
DO - 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02117-6
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0035313705
VL - 16
SP - 205
EP - 210
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
SN - 0169-5347
IS - 4
ER -