DEL PORQUÉ LA REGENERACIÓN NATURAL ES TAN IMPORTANTE PARA LA COEXISTENCIA DE ESPECIES EN LOS BOSQUES TROPICALES

摘要: Plant regeneration plays a critical role in the maintenance of species diversity tropical rainforests. This is multistage process, including seed production, dispersal, germination and subsequent seedling establishment. All these stages represent major bottlenecks plant demography, as early cycle (seeds seedlings) are most vulnerable to environmental hazards, therefore subject high mortality risks. The outcome ecological filters will determine not only spatial distribution, but also potential area tree distribution. Seed dispersal establishment play structuring communities. Here, I review main four processes driving recruitment forests. First, limitation failure seeds reach suitable microsites for Once this filter overcome, factors can considerably affect Temporal fluctuations result an important variation success over time, add stochastic component regeneration. Finally, negative-density dependence regulates relative abundance layer by limiting conspecific through attack pathogen, fungi herbivores.