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Liza S. Comita, Auteur ; Maria Uriarte, Auteur ; Jill Thompson, Auteur ; Inge Jonckheere, Auteur ; Charles D. Canham, Auteur ; Jess K. Zimmerman, AuteurP> Many forests experience periodic, large-scale disturbances, such as hurricanes and cyclones, which open the forest canopy, causing dramatic changes in understorey light conditions and seedling densities. Thus, in hurricane-impacted forests, l[...]
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Yan Zhu, Auteur ; Liza S. Comita, Auteur ; Stephen P. Hubbell, Auteur ; Keping Ma, AuteurEcologists have long recognized that plant performance is affected by the density and composition of neighbouring individuals. With the advent of highly resolved species-level phylogenies, it has become possible to test whether such density-depe[...]
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Liza S. Comita, Auteur ; Richard Condit, Auteur ; Stephen P. Hubbell, Auteur1 Recent studies have documented local-scale associations between tree species and topographic and edaphic habitat types in forests worldwide. To determine whether such associations form at early life stages, we compared species' positive associ[...]
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Luxiang Lin, Auteur ; Liza S. Comita, Auteur ; Zheng Zheng, Auteur ; Min Cao, Auteur1. Density-dependent survival is prevalent in tropical forests and is recognized as a potentially important mechanism for maintaining tree species diversity. However, there is little knowledge of how density dependence changes in fluctuating env[...]
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Liza S. Comita, Auteur ; Simon A. Queenborough, Auteur ; Stephen J. Murphy, Auteur ; Jenalle L. Eck, Auteur ; Kaiyang Xu, Auteur ; Meghna Krishnadas, Auteur ; Noelle Beckman, Auteur ; Yan Zhu, Auteur1. The Janzen-Connell hypothesis proposes that specialist natural enemies, such as herbivores and pathogens, maintain diversity in plant communities by reducing survival rates of conspecific seeds and seedlings located close to reproductive adul[...]
