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James V. LaFrankie
Researcher at National Institute of Education
Publications - 40
Citations - 5259
James V. LaFrankie is an academic researcher from National Institute of Education. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Species diversity. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 40 publications receiving 4986 citations. Previous affiliations of James V. LaFrankie include Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute & Nanyang Technological University.
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Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species
Richard Condit,Peter S. Ashton,Patrick J. Baker,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,Savithri Gunatilleke,Nimal Gunatilleke,Stephen P. Hubbell,Robin B. Foster,Akira Itoh,James V. LaFrankie,Hua-Seng Lee,Elizabeth Losos,N. Manokaran,Raman Sukumar,Takuo Yamakura +14 more
TL;DR: The degree of aggregation in the distribution of 1768 tree species is examined based on the average density of conspecific trees in circular neighborhoods around each tree, and it is found that nearly every species was more aggregated than a random distribution.
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Species-area and species-individual relationships for tropical trees : a comparison of three 50-ha plots
Richard Condit,Stephen P. Hubbell,James V. LaFrankie,Raman Sukumar,N. Manokaran,Robin B. Foster,Peter S. Ashton +6 more
TL;DR: The results provide support for the view that within each tree community, many species have their abundance and distribution guided more by random drift than deterministic interactions and demonstrate that diversity studies based on different stem diameters can be compared by sampling identical numbers of stems.
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Species-area curves, spatial aggregation, and habitat specialization in tropical forests.
Joshua B. Plotkin,Matthew D. Potts,Nandi O. Leslie,N. Manokaran,James V. LaFrankie,Peter S. Ashton +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that small-scale phenomena such as dispersal and gap recruitment determine individual tree placement more than adaptation to larger-scale topography.
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Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests
Helene C. Muller-Landau,Richard Condit,Jérôme Chave,Sean C. Thomas,Stephanie A. Bohlman,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,Stuart J. Davies,Robin B. Foster,Savitri Gunatilleke,Nimal Gunatilleke,Kyle E. Harms,Kyle E. Harms,Terese B. Hart,Stephen P. Hubbell,Stephen P. Hubbell,Akira Itoh,Abd Rahman Kassim,James V. LaFrankie,Hua Seng Lee,Elizabeth Losos,Jean-Remy Makana,Tatsuhiro Ohkubo,Raman Sukumar,I-Fang Sun,M. N. Nur Supardi,Sylvester Tan,Jill Thompson,Renato Valencia,Gorky Villa Muñoz,Christopher Wills,Takuo Yamakura,George B. Chuyong,H. S. Dattaraja,Shameema Esufali,Pamela Hall,Pamela Hall,Consuelo Hernandez,David Kenfack,Somboon Kiratiprayoon,Hebbalalu S. Suresh,Duncan W. Thomas,Martha Isabel Vallejo,Peter S. Ashton +42 more
TL;DR: There are no universal scaling relationships of growth or mortality with size among trees in tropical forests, and a set of alternative predictions were developed that retained some assumptions of metabolic ecology while also considering how availability of a key limiting resource, light, changes with tree size.
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Distribution patterns of tree species in a Malaysian tropical rain forest
TL;DR: This study suggests that the Pasoh forest and its high diversity are subjected to multiple controlling factors, e.g., topography, spacing effect, density-dependent processes and species rarity, and the importance of any factor changes across spatial and temporal scales.