Tree-species competition and coexistence

Chris Lusk ()
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Chris Lusk: Universidad de Concepción

Nature, 2003, vol. 422, issue 6932, 580-581

Abstract: Abstract How apparently similar plant species coexist is a puzzle. Kelly and Bowler1 claim that environmental fluctuation promotes the coexistence of tree species by alternately favouring recruitment of common and rare congeners in a dry tropical forest. Here I argue that current knowledge of tropical-forest ecology does not support the authors' focus on congeneric competition, and show that their use of diameter distributions to date recruitment fluctuations may be misleading. It is therefore doubtful, at this stage, that recruitment patterns of the authors' congeneric pairs can be linked to the sort of competition dynamic that they envisage.

Date: 2003
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