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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
A taxonomic comparison of local habitat niches of tropical trees
Oecologia, Volume 173, No. 4, Year 2013
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The integration of ecology and evolutionary biology requires an understanding of the evolutionary lability in species' ecological niches. For tropical trees, specialization for particular soil resource and topographic conditions is an important part of the habitat niche, influencing the distributions of individual species and overall tree community structure at the local scale. However, little is known about how these habitat niches are related to the evolutionary history of species. We assessed the relationship between taxonomic rank and tree species' soil resource and topographic niches in eight large (24-50 ha) tropical forest dynamics plots. Niche overlap values, indicating the similarity of two species' distributions along soil or topographic axes, were calculated for all pairwise combinations of co-occurring tree species at each study site. Congeneric species pairs often showed greater niche overlap (i.e., more similar niches) than non-congeneric pairs along both soil and topographic axes, though significant effects were found for only five sites based on Mantel tests. No evidence for taxonomic effects was found at the family level. Our results indicate that local habitat niches of trees exhibit varying degrees of phylogenetic signal at different sites, which may have important ramifications for the phylogenetic structure of these communities. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Authors & Co-Authors
Baldeck, Claire A.
United States, Urbana
University of Illinois Urbana-champaign
Kembel, Steven W.
Canada, Montreal
Université du Québec à Montréal
Harms, Kyle E.
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
United States, Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Yavitt, Joseph B.
United States, Ithaca
Cornell University
John, Robert
India, Mohanpur
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
Turner, Benjamin L.
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Chuyong, George Bindeh
Cameroon, Buea
University of Buea
Kenfack, David
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Thomas, Duncan W.
United States, Corvallis
Oregon State University
Madawala, Sumedha
Sri Lanka, Peradeniya
University of Peradeniya
Gunatilleke, Nimal I.A.U.
Sri Lanka, Peradeniya
University of Peradeniya
Gunatilleke, Savitri C.V.
Sri Lanka, Peradeniya
University of Peradeniya
Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh
Thailand, Bangkok
National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Thailand
Kiratiprayoon, Somboon
Thailand, Pathum Thani
Thammasat University
Yaacob, Adzmi Bin
Malaysia, Shah Alam
Universiti Teknologi Mara
Nur Supardi, Mohd Noor
Malaysia, Kepong
Institut Penyelidikan Perhutanan Malaysia
Valencia, Renato L.
Ecuador, Quito
Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador
Navarrete, Hugo
Ecuador, Quito
Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador
Davies, Stuart James
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Hubbell, Stephen P.
United States, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
Dalling, James William
United States, Urbana
University of Illinois Urbana-champaign
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Statistics
Citations: 24
Authors: 21
Affiliations: 16
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s00442-013-2709-5
ISSN:
00298549