Photosynthetic Characteristics of Tropical Trees Along Successional Gradients

摘要: Patterns of tropical succession and species replacement are shaped determined by the dynamic nature these forests. Gap-phase in forests is driven changes resource availability arising from canopy disturbances associated soil disturbances. Large gaps result primarily major storms that cause blowdown numerous trees, while smaller created as individual trees lose branches, topple, or die standing (reviewed Denslow, 1987). When such breaches occur, light, temperature, humidity, nutrients altered (Chazdon & Fetcher, 1984a; Chiariello, 1984; Oberbauer Strain, 1985; Ashton, 1992; Vazquez-Yanes Orozco-Segovia, Chapter 18). Consequently, it common to find all stages forest occurring within same at any given time along understory-gap center continuum.