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Shameema Esufali
Researcher at University of Peradeniya
Publications - 13
Citations - 1628
Shameema Esufali is an academic researcher from University of Peradeniya. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species diversity & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 13 publications receiving 1456 citations. Previous affiliations of Shameema Esufali include University of Georgia & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
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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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The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity.
Richard Condit,Richard Condit,Peter S. Ashton,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,H. S. Dattaraja,Stuart J. Davies,Shameema Esufali,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Robin B. Foster,I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke,C. V. S. Gunatilleke,Pamela Hall,Kyle E. Harms,Terese B. Hart,Consuelo Hernandez,Stephen P. Hubbell,Akira Itoh,Somboon Kiratiprayoon,James V. LaFrankie,Suzanne Loo de Lao,Jean-Remy Makana,Md. Nur Supardi Noor,Abdul Rahman Kassim,Sabrina E. Russo,Raman Sukumar,Cristián Samper,Hebbalalu S. Suresh,Sylvester Tan,Sean C. Thomas,Renato Valencia,Martha Isabel Vallejo,Gorky Villa,Tommaso Zillio,Tommaso Zillio +33 more
TL;DR: Although demographic differences may foster coexistence, they do not explain any of the 16-fold variation in tree species richness observed across the tropics.
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Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities
Jérôme Chave,Richard Condit,Helene C. Muller-Landau,Sean C. Thomas,Peter S. Ashton,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,Leonardo Co,H. S. Dattaraja,Stuart J. Davies,Stuart J. Davies,Shameema Esufali,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Kenneth J. Feeley,Robin B. Foster,Nimal Gunatilleke,Savitri Gunatilleke,Pamela Hall,Terese B. Hart,Consuelo Hernandez,Stephen P. Hubbell,Akira Itoh,Somboon Kiratiprayoon,James V. LaFrankie,Suzanne Loo de Lao,Jean-Remy Makana,Md. Nur Supardi Noor,Abdul Rahman Kassim,Cristián Samper,Raman Sukumar,Hebbalalu S. Suresh,Sylvester Tan,Jill Thompson,Ma. Dolores C Tongco,Renato Valencia,Martha Isabel Vallejo,Gorky Villa,Takuo Yamakura,Jess K. Zimmerman,Elizabeth Losos +38 more
TL;DR: The results do not support the hypothesis that fast-growing species are consistently increasing in dominance in tropical tree communities, and suggest that plots may be simultaneously recovering from past disturbances and affected by changes in resource availability.
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Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models
Helene C. Muller-Landau,Richard Condit,Kyle E. Harms,Kyle E. Harms,Christian O. Marks,Sean C. Thomas,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,George B. Chuyong,Leonardo Co,Stuart J. Davies,Robin B. Foster,Savitri Gunatilleke,Nimal Gunatilleke,Terese B. Hart,Stephen P. Hubbell,Stephen P. Hubbell,Akira Itoh,Abd Rahman Kassim,David Kenfack,James V. LaFrankie,Daniel Lagunzad,Hua Seng Lee,Elizabeth Losos,Jean-Remy Makana,Tatsuhiro Ohkubo,Cristián Samper,Raman Sukumar,I-Fang Sun,M. N. Nur Supardi,Sylvester Tan,Duncan W. Thomas,Jill Thompson,Renato Valencia,Martha Isabel Vallejo,Gorky Villa Muñoz,Takuo Yamakura,Jess K. Zimmerman,Handanakere Shavaramaiah Dattaraja,Shameema Esufali,Pamela Hall,Fangliang He,Consuelo Hernandez,Somboon Kiratiprayoon,Hebbalalu S. Suresh,Christopher Wills,Peter S. Ashton +45 more
TL;DR: This work uses demographic equilibrium theory to derive analytic predictions for tree size distributions corresponding to different growth and mortality functions and tests these predictions using data from 14 large-scale tropical forest plots encompassing censuses of 473 ha and > 2 million trees.
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Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests
Christopher Wills,Kyle E. Harms,Richard Condit,David S. King,Jill Thompson,Fangliang He,Helene C. Muller-Landau,Peter S. Ashton,Elizabeth Losos,Liza S. Comita,Stephen P. Hubbell,James V. LaFrankie,Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin,H. S. Dattaraja,Stuart J. Davies,Shameema Esufali,Robin B. Foster,Nimal Gunatilleke,Savitri Gunatilleke,Pamela Hall,Akira Itoh,Robert John,Somboon Kiratiprayoon,Suzanne Loo de Lao,Marie Massa,Cheryl Nath,Md. Nur Supardi Noor,Abdul Rahman Kassim,Raman Sukumar,Hebbalalu S. Suresh,I-Fang Sun,Sylvester Tan,Takuo Yamakura,Jess K. Zimmerman +33 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present census data from seven New and Old World tropical forest dynamics plots that all show the latter pattern, showing that the trees that survived were as a group more diverse than those that were recruited or those that died.