Putting seedlings on the map: Trade-offs in demographic rates between ontogenetic size classes in five tropical forests.

ABSTRACT: All species must partition resources among the processes that underly growth, survival, and reproduction. The resulting demographic trade-offs constrain the range of viable life-history strategies and are hypothesized to promote local coexistence. Tropical forests pose ideal systems to study demographic trade-offs as they have a high diversity of coexisting tree species whose life-history strategies tend to align along two orthogonal axes of variation: a growth-survival trade-off that separates species with fast growth from species with high survival and a stature-recruitment trade-off that separates species that achieve large stature from species with high recruitment. As these trade-offs have typically been explored for trees ≥1 cm dbh, it is unclear how species' growth and survival duri

SUBMITTER: Kambach S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755001 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature