Seasonal and successional dynamics of size-dependent plant demographic rates in a tropical dry forest.

ABSTRACT: Tropical forests are globally important for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation but are being converted to other land uses. Conversion of seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) is particularly high while their protection is low. Secondary succession allows forests to recover their structure, diversity and composition after conversion and subsequent abandonment and is influenced by demographic rates of the constituent species. However, how these rates vary between seasons for different plant sizes at different successional stages in SDTF is not known. The effect of seasonal drought may be more severe early in succession, when temperature and radiation are high, while competition and density-dependent processes may be more important at later stages, when vegetation is tal

SUBMITTER: Saenz-Pedroza I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497611 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature