Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area

S.J. DeWalt; S.A. Schnitzer; J. Chave; F. Bongers; Z.Q. Cai; C.E.N. Ewango; M.P.E. Parren

doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00589.x

Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area

S.J. DeWalt, S.A. Schnitzer, J. Chave, F. Bongers, Z.Q. Cai, C.E.N. Ewango, M.P.E. Parren

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We test the hypotheses proposed by Gentry and Schnitzer that liana density and basal area in tropical forests vary negatively with mean annual precipitation (MAP) and positively with seasonality. Previous studies correlating liana abundance with these climatic variables have produced conflicting results, warranting a new analysis of drivers of liana abundance based on a different dataset. We compiled a pan-tropical dataset containing 28,953 lianas (=2.5 cm diam.) from studies conducted at 13 Neotropical and 11 Paleotropical dry to wet lowland tropical forests. The ranges in MAP and dry season length (DSL) (number of months with mean rainfall

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	309-317
Journal	Biotropica
Volume	42
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00589.x
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

dry evergreen forests
floristic composition
neotropical forests
community structure
species-diversity
national-park
tree
abundance
dynamics
india

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Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area

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