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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
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It is concluded that small-scale phenomena such as dispersal and gap recruitment determine individual tree placement more than adaptation to larger-scale topography.About:
This article is published in Journal of Theoretical Biology.The article was published on 2000-11-07. It has received 321 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Species diversity & Species richness.read more
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Spatial Analysis A Guide for Ecologists
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a spatial analysis of complete point location data, including points, lines, and graphs, and a multiscale analysis of the data set, including spatial diversity analysis and spatial autocorrelation.
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Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species
Robert John,James W. Dalling,James W. Dalling,Kyle E. Harms,Kyle E. Harms,Joseph B. Yavitt,Robert F. Stallard,Matthew Mirabello,Stephen P. Hubbell,Stephen P. Hubbell,Renato Valencia,Hugo Navarrete,Martha Isabel Vallejo,Robin B. Foster,Robin B. Foster +14 more
TL;DR: It is found that belowground resource availability plays an important role in the assembly of tropical tree communities at local scales and provide the basis for future investigations on the mechanisms of resource competition among tropical tree species.
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Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot
TL;DR: To the extent that habitat association reflects habitat specialization, the results suggest that local habitat specialization plays a limited role in the maintenance of species diversity in this forest.
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Comparing classical community models: theoretical consequences for patterns of diversity.
TL;DR: Overall, however, communities in which different processes operated showed surprisingly similar patterns, which suggests that the form of community‐level patterns cannot in general be used to distinguish among mechanisms maintaining diversity there.
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Statistics for spatial data
Noel A Cressie,Noel A Cressie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of statistics for spatial data in the field of geostatistics, including spatial point patterns and point patterns modeling objects, using Lattice Data and spatial models on lattices.
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Species Diversity in Space and Time
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a hierarchical dynamic puzzle to understand the relationship between habitat diversity and species diversity and the evolution of the relationships between habitats diversity and diversity in evolutionary time.
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Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests
TL;DR: Any event that increases the efficiency of the predators at eating seeds and seedlings of a given tree species may lead to a reduction in population density of the adults of that species and/or to increased distance between new adults and their parents.
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Statistical analysis of spatial point patterns
TL;DR: This book provides an introduction to statistical methods for analysing data in the form of spatial point distributions, described in intuitive terms and illustrated by many applications to real data drawn from the biological and biomedical sciences.