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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests
Ecology Letters, Volume 9, No. 5, Year 2006
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The theory of metabolic ecology predicts specific relationships among tree stem diameter, biomass, height, growth and mortality. As demographic rates are important to estimates of carbon fluxes in forests, this theory might offer important insights into the global carbon budget, and deserves careful assessment. We assembled data from 10 old-growth tropical forests encompassing censuses of 367 ha and > 1.7 million trees to test the theory's predictions. We also developed a set of alternative predictions that retained some assumptions of metabolic ecology while also considering how availability of a key limiting resource, light, changes with tree size. Our results show that there are no universal scaling relationships of growth or mortality with size among trees in tropical forests. Observed patterns were consistent with our alternative model in the one site where we had the data necessary to evaluate it, and were inconsistent with the predictions of metabolic ecology in all forests. © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.
Authors & Co-Authors
Muller-Landau, Helene C.
United States, Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Condit, Richard S.
United States, Sunspot
Apache Point Observatory
Chave, Jérôme
France, Toulouse
Université Toulouse Iii - Paul Sabatier
Thomas, Sean C.
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Bohlman, Stephanie Ann
United States, Princeton
Princeton University
Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh
Thailand, Bangkok
National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Thailand
Davies, Stuart James
United States, Sunspot
Apache Point Observatory
Foster, Robin B.
United States, Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
Gunatilleke, Savitri C.V.
Sri Lanka, Peradeniya
University of Peradeniya
Gunatilleke, Nimal I.A.U.
Sri Lanka, Peradeniya
University of Peradeniya
Harms, Kyle E.
United States, Sunspot
Apache Point Observatory
United States, Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Hart, Terese B.
United States, New York
Wildlife Conservation Society
Hubbell, Stephen P.
United States, Sunspot
Apache Point Observatory
United States, Athens
University of Georgia
Itoh, Akira
Japan, Osaka
Osaka Metropolitan University
Kassim, Abd Rahman
Malaysia, Kepong
Institut Penyelidikan Perhutanan Malaysia
LaFrankie, James V.
Singapore, Singapore City
Nanyang Technological University
Lee, Huaseng
Malaysia, Kuching
Forest Department Sarawak
Losos, Elizabeth C.
United States, Durham
Duke University
Makana, Jean Rémy
Canada, Toronto
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
Ohkubo, Tatsuhiro
Japan, Utsunomiya
Utsunomiya University
Sukumar, Raman
India, Bengaluru
Indian Institute of Science
Sun, I. Fang
Taiwan, Taichung
Center for Tropical Ecology and Biodiversity
Nur Supardi, Mohd Noor
Malaysia, Kepong
Institut Penyelidikan Perhutanan Malaysia
Tan, Sylvester Kheng San
Malaysia, Sandakan
Forest Research Centre - Sandakan
Thompson, Jill K.
Puerto Rico, San Juan
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras
Valencia, Renato L.
Ecuador, Quito
Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador
Muñoz, Gorky Villa
Ecuador, Quito
Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador
Wills, Christopher J.
United States, La Jolla
School of Biological Sciences
Yamakura, Takuo
Japan, Osaka
Osaka Metropolitan University
Chuyong, George Bindeh
Cameroon, Buea
University of Buea
Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramaiah
India, Bengaluru
Indian Institute of Science
Esufali, Shameema T.
Sri Lanka, Peradeniya
University of Peradeniya
Hall, Pamela
United States, Sunspot
Apache Point Observatory
United States, Tallahassee
Florida State University
Hernández, Consuelo
Ecuador, Quito
Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador
Kenfack, David
United States, St. Louis
University of Missouri-st. Louis
Kiratiprayoon, Somboon
Thailand, Pathum Thani
Thammasat University
Suresh, Hebbalalu Satyanarayana
India, Bengaluru
Indian Institute of Science
Thomas, Duncan W.
United States, Corvallis
Oregon State University
Vallejo, Martha Isabel
Colombia, Bogota
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander Von Humboldt, Bogota
Ashton, Peter Shaw
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Statistics
Citations: 320
Authors: 40
Affiliations: 31
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00904.x
ISSN:
1461023X
e-ISSN:
14610248
Research Areas
Environmental
Noncommunicable Diseases