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

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2020-01-01

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Letter

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14610248
1461023X

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10.1111/ele.13412

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2-s2.0-85074848354

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Mahidol University

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Ecology Letters. Vol.23, No.1 (2020), 160-171

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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 Howe, Chang 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 Temporal population variability in local forest communities has mixed effects on tree species richness across a latitudinal gradient. Ecology Letters. Vol.23, No.1 (2020), 160-171. doi:10.1111/ele.13412 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/49528

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

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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 Howe
 Chang 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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National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Thailand
 Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogota
 Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador
 University of Puerto Rico
 University of the Philippines Diliman
 Far Eastern University Manila
 University of Peradeniya
 University of Buea
 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
 Field Museum of Natural History
 Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
 Tunghai University
 Forest Research Institute Malaysia
 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
 National University of Singapore
 Florida International University
 Smithsonian Institution
 Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
 Oregon State University
 Mahidol University
 National Dong Hwa University
 Thailand National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
 National Sun Yat-Sen University Taiwan
 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
 Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
 Los Alamos National Laboratory
 National Taiwan University
 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
 Wildlife Conservation Society
 Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Abstract

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS 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.

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Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/49528

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