TY - JOUR
T1 - Uniting niche differentiation and dispersal limitation predicts tropical forest succession
AU - Dent, Daisy H.
AU - Estrada-Villegas, Sergio
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Luke Browne, Liza Comita, Meg Crofoot, Dina Dechmann, Ana Cristina Palma, and Pablo Stevenson for comments on earlier drafts of this article. We also thank three anonymous reviewers and Andrea Stephens; their comments helped us improve the ideas proposed in this opinion article. D.D. was supported by a Resesearch Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , Germany.
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© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Tropical secondary forests are increasingly important for carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation worldwide; yet, we still cannot accurately predict community turnover during secondary succession. We propose that integrating niche differentiation and dispersal limitation will generate an improved theoretical explanation of tropical forest succession. The interaction between seed sources and dispersers regulates seed movement throughout succession, and recent technological advances in animal tracking and molecular analyses enable us to accurately monitor seed movement as never before. We propose a framework to bridge the gap between niche differentiation and dispersal limitation. The Source-Disperser Limitation Framework (SDLF) provides a way to better predict secondary tropical forest succession across gradients of landscape disturbance by integrating seed sources and frugivore behavior.
AB - Tropical secondary forests are increasingly important for carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation worldwide; yet, we still cannot accurately predict community turnover during secondary succession. We propose that integrating niche differentiation and dispersal limitation will generate an improved theoretical explanation of tropical forest succession. The interaction between seed sources and dispersers regulates seed movement throughout succession, and recent technological advances in animal tracking and molecular analyses enable us to accurately monitor seed movement as never before. We propose a framework to bridge the gap between niche differentiation and dispersal limitation. The Source-Disperser Limitation Framework (SDLF) provides a way to better predict secondary tropical forest succession across gradients of landscape disturbance by integrating seed sources and frugivore behavior.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33966918
AN - SCOPUS:85106315560
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 36
SP - 700
EP - 708
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 8
ER -