Interspecific variation in mortality and growth and changes in their relationship with size class in an old-growth temperate forest.

ABSTRACT: Understanding trade-offs between demographic parameters is crucial when investigating community assembly rules in high-diversity forests. To this end, we estimated mortality and growth parameters, and correlations among them, across entire size classes for 17 tree species (Betula, Carpinus, Fagus, Quercus, Castanea, Acer, Cerasus, Swida, Kalopanax, and Styrax) using a dataset over 18 years obtained from an old-growth forest in Japan.Size classes were represented by 12 categories determined by age, height, and diameter at breast height (DBH) from new seedlings to stems of DBH >85 cm. We derived the annual mortality and growth for each species and class using estimates of transition probabilities between classes. Trade-off

SUBMITTER: Masaki T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258222 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature