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Richard Condit
Researcher at Morton Arboretum
Publications - 235
Citations - 29962
Richard Condit is an academic researcher from Morton Arboretum. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 228 publications receiving 26685 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Condit include Cornell University & State Street Corporation.
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Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest
Stephen P. Hubbell,Robin B. Foster,Sean T. O'Brien,Kyle E. Harms,Richard Condit,B. Wechsler,S. J. Wright,S. Loo de Lao +7 more
TL;DR: Strong recruitment limitation appears to decouple the gap disturbance regime from control of tree diversity in this tropical forest, where the species composition of gaps was unpredictable even for pioneer tree species.
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Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees
Richard Condit,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Egbert Giles Leigh,Jérôme Chave,John Terborgh,Robin B. Foster,Percy Nuñez,Salomón Aguilar,Renato Valencia,Gorky Villa,Helene C. Muller-Landau,Elizabeth Losos,Stephen P. Hubbell +12 more
TL;DR: It is found that beta-diversity is higher in Panama than in western Amazonia and that patterns in both areas are inconsistent with the neutral model, suggesting that dispersal limitation, with speciation, influences species turnover.
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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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Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests.
Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht,Liza S. Comita,Richard Condit,Thomas A. Kursar,Thomas A. Kursar,Melvin T. Tyree,Melvin T. Tyree,Melvin T. Tyree,Benjamin L. Turner,Stephen P. Hubbell,Stephen P. Hubbell +10 more
TL;DR: It is shown that differential drought sensitivity shapes plant distributions in tropical forests at both regional and local scales, and changes in soil moisture availability caused by global climate change and forest fragmentation are likely to alter tropical species distributions, community composition and diversity.
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Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees
S. Joseph Wright,Kaoru Kitajima,Kaoru Kitajima,Nathan J. B. Kraft,Peter B. Reich,Ian J. Wright,Daniel E. Bunker,Richard Condit,James W. Dalling,James W. Dalling,Stuart J. Davies,Sandra Díaz,Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht,Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht,Kyle E. Harms,Kyle E. Harms,Stephen P. Hubbell,Stephen P. Hubbell,Christian O. Marks,Maria C. Ruiz-Jaen,Cristina M. Salvador,Amy E. Zanne +21 more
TL;DR: A trade-off between growth and mortality rates characterizes tree species in closed canopy forests and a growing consensus that seed mass, leaf mass per area, wood density, and maximum height are key traits among forest trees is agreed.