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- Title
Review of the Symposium Determinism and Stochasticity in Ecological Succession in ESA‐Louisville, 2019.
- Authors
Estrada‐Villegas, Sergio; DeMalach, Niv; Martinez Ramos, Miguel; Ladwig, Laura M.; Meiners, Scott J.; Werden, Leland K.; Schnitzer, Stefan A.
- Abstract
A central and recurrent discussion in ecology is how deterministic and stochastic processes dictate how communities assemble after severe disturbances. Furthermore, tree biomass converged over time as forests aged, and it was positively affected by edaphic factors, especially soil fertility, implying that fertility can have a determinist effect on tree biomass accumulation. By contrast, liana biomass did not converge, regardless of forest cover or edaphic factors suggesting that liana biomass might be more regulated by stochastic processes than trees. At the moist forest site, rainfall variability in the dry season can change up to 20-fold (17-342 mm between February and April), and it was expected to have important potential consequences in the tree community successional dynamics.
- Subjects
LOUISVILLE (Ky.); ECOLOGICAL succession; SEED dispersal; RAIN forests; BIOTIC communities; TROPICAL dry forests; BIOLOGICAL extinction; SAVANNA ecology
- Publication
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2020, Vol 101, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2327-6096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bes2.1687