Authors
Susan G Letcher, Jesse R Lasky, Robin L Chazdon, Natalia Norden, S Joseph Wright, Jorge A Meave, Eduardo A Pérez‐García, Rodrigo Muñoz, Eunice Romero‐Pérez, Ana Andrade, José Luis Andrade, Patricia Balvanera, Justin M Becknell, Tony V Bentos, Radika Bhaskar, Frans Bongers, Vanessa Boukili, Pedro HS Brancalion, Ricardo G César, Deborah A Clark, David B Clark, Dylan Craven, Alexander DeFrancesco, Juan M Dupuy, Bryan Finegan, Eugenio González‐Jiménez, Jefferson S Hall, Kyle E Harms, José Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni, Peter Hietz, Deborah Kennard, Timothy J Killeen, Susan G Laurance, Edwin E Lebrija‐Trejos, Madelon Lohbeck, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Paulo ES Massoca, Rita CG Mesquita, Francisco Mora, Robert Muscarella, Horacio Paz, Fernando Pineda‐García, Jennifer S Powers, Ruperto Quesada‐Monge, Ricardo R Rodrigues, Manette E Sandor, Lucía Sanaphre‐Villanueva, Elisabeth Schüller, Nathan G Swenson, Alejandra Tauro, María Uriarte, Michiel Van Breugel, Orlando Vargas‐Ramírez, Ricardo AG Viani, Amanda L Wendt, G Bruce Williamson
Publication date
2015/9
Journal
Journal of Ecology
Volume
103
Issue
5
Pages
1276-1290
Description
- Successional gradients are ubiquitous in nature, yet few studies have systematically examined the evolutionary origins of taxa that specialize at different successional stages. Here we quantify successional habitat specialization in Neotropical forest trees and evaluate its evolutionary lability along a precipitation gradient. Theoretically, successional habitat specialization should be more evolutionarily conserved in wet forests than in dry forests due to more extreme microenvironmental differentiation between early and late‐successional stages in wet forest.
- We applied a robust multinomial classification model to samples of primary and secondary forest trees from 14 Neotropical lowland forest sites spanning a precipitation gradient from 788 to 4000 mm annual rainfall, identifying species that are old‐growth specialists and secondary forest specialists in each site. We constructed phylogenies for the classified taxa at …
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