Tree Biodiversity

Tree Biodiversity

Crepet, W. L., K. C. Nixon, and M. A. Gandolfo. 2004. Fossil evidence and phylogeny: The age of major angiosperm clades based on mesofossil and macrofossil evidence from cretaceous deposits. American Journal of Botany 91:1666-1682.

Kier, G., J. Mutke, E. Dinerstein, T. H. Ricketts, W. Kuper, H. Kreft, and W. Barthlott. 2005. Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge. Journal of Biogeography 32:1107-1116.

Sporne, K. R. 1970. ADVANCEMENT INDEX AND TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST. New Phytologist 69:1161-&.

Sporne, K. R. 1982. THE ADVANCEMENT INDEX VINDICATED. New Phytologist 91:137-145.

Forest Models

Acevedo, M. F., D. L. Urban, and H. H. Shugart. 1996. Models of forest dynamics based on roles of tree species. Ecological Modelling 87:267-284.

Dyer, M. I., and H. H. Shugart. 1992. MULTILEVEL INTERACTIONS ARISING FROM HERBIVORY - A SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF DECIDUOUS FORESTS UTILIZING FORET. Ecological Applications 2:376-386.

Gonzalez, P., R. P. Neilson, J. M. Lenihan, and R. J. Drapek. 2010. Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19:755-768.

Mladenoff, D. J. 2004. LANDIS and forest landscape models. Ecological Modelling 180:7-19.

Scheller, R. M., and D. J. Mladenoff. 2004. A forest growth and biomass module for a landscape simulation model, LANDIS: design, validation, and application. Ecological Modelling 180:211-229.

The Regeneration Niche and Tropical Forest Diversity

Grubb, P. J. 1977. MAINTENANCE OF SPECIES-RICHNESS IN PLANT COMMUNITIES - IMPORTANCE OF REGENERATION NICHE. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 52:107-145.

Clark, D. A., and D. B. Clark. 1992. LIFE-HISTORY DIVERSITY OF CANOPY AND EMERGENT TREES IN A NEOTROPICAL RAIN-FOREST. Ecological Monographs 62:315-344.

Condit, R., P. Ashton, S. Bunyavejchewin, H. S. Dattaraja, S. Davies, S. Esufali, C. Ewango, R. Foster, I. Gunatilleke, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, P. Hall, K. E. Harms, T. Hart, C. Hernandez, S. Hubbell, A. Itoh, S. Kiratiprayoon, J. LaFrankie, S. L. de Lao, J. R. Makana, M. N. S. Noor, A. R. Kassim, S. Russo, R. Sukumar, C. Samper, H. S. Suresh, S. Tan, S. Thomas, R. Valencia, M. Vallejo, G. Villa, and T. Zillio. 2006. The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity. Science 313:98-101.

Condit, R., S. P. Hubbell, and R. B. Foster. 1992. RECRUITMENT NEAR CONSPECIFIC ADULTS AND THE MAINTENANCE OF TREE AND SHRUB DIVERSITY IN A NEOTROPICAL FOREST. American Naturalist 140:261-286.

Kitajima, K. 1994. RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC TRAITS AND ALLOCATION PATTERNS AS CORRELATES OF SEEDLING SHADE TOLERANCE OF 13 TROPICAL TREES. Oecologia 98:419-428.

Poorter, L., F. Bongers, F. J. Sterck, and H. Woll. 2005. Beyond the regeneration phase: differentiation of height-light trajectories among tropical tree species. Journal of Ecology 93:256-267.

Wright, S. J. 2002. Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence. Oecologia 130:1-14.

Community Phylogenetics

Cavender-Bares, J., D. D. Ackerly, D. A. Baum, and F. A. Bazzaz. 2004a. Phylogenetic overdispersion in Floridian oak communities. American Naturalist 163:823-843.

Cavender-Bares, J., K. Kitajima, and F. A. Bazzaz. 2004b. Multiple trait associations in relation to habitat differentiation among 17 Floridian oak species. Ecological Monographs 74:635-662.

Webb, C. O. 2000. Exploring the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities: An example for rain forest trees. American Naturalist 156:145-155.

Webb, C. O., D. D. Ackerly, M. A. McPeek, and M. J. Donoghue. 2002. Phylogenies and community ecology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:475-505.

Paleoecology

Anderson-Carpenter, L. L., J. S. McLachlan, S. T. Jackson, M. Kuch, C. Y. Lumibao, and H. N. Poinar. 2011. Ancient DNA from lake sediments: Bridging the gap between paleoecology and genetics. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 11.

McLachlan, J. S., and J. S. Clark. 2004. Reconstructing historical ranges with fossil data at continental scales. Forest Ecology and Management 197:139-147.

McLachlan, J. S., J. S. Clark, and P. S. Manos. 2005. Molecular indicators of tree migration capacity under rapid climate change. Ecology 86:2088-2098.

Svenning, J. C. 2003. Deterministic Plio-Pleistocene extinctions in the European cool-temperate tree flora. Ecology Letters 6:646-653.