期刊
ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 12, 期 6, 页码 507-515出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01305.x
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Community ecology; metabolic ecology; neutral theory; tropical forests; zero-sum dynamics
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P20 RR018754, P20 RR018754-06A1] Funding Source: Medline
Major shifts in many ecosystem-level properties of tropical forests have been observed, but the processes driving these changes are poorly understood. The forest on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) exhibited a 20% decrease in the number of trees and a 10% increase in average diameter. Using a metabolism-based zero-sum framework, we show that increases in per capita resource use at BCI, caused by increased tree size and increased temperature, compensated for the observed declines in abundance. This trade-off between abundance and average resource use resulted in no net change in the rate resources are fluxed by the forest. Observed changes in the forest are not consistent with other hypotheses, including changes in overall resource availability and existing self-thinning models. The framework successfully predicts interrelated changes in size, abundance and temperature, indicating its utility for understanding changes in the structure and dynamics of ecosystems.
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