Variable gene dispersal conditions and spatial deforestation patterns can interact to affect tropical tree conservation outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Tropical lowland rain forest (TLRF) biodiversity is under threat from anthropogenic factors including deforestation which creates forest fragments of different sizes that can further undergo various internal patterns of logging. Such interventions can modify previous equilibrium abundance and spatial distribution patterns of offspring recruitment and/or pollen dispersal. Little is known about how these aspects of deforestation and fragmentation might synergistically affect TLRF tree recovery demographics and population genetics in newly formed forest fragments. To investigate these TLRF anthropogenic disturbance processes we used the computer program NEWGARDEN (NG), which models spatially-explicit, individual-based plant populations, to simulate 10% deforestation in six different spatial l

SUBMITTER: Kashimshetty Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4441416 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature