TY - CHAP
T1 - Biogeographical patterns of liana abundance and diversity
AU - Dewalt, Saara J.
AU - Schnitzer, Stefan A.
AU - Alves, Luciana F.
AU - Bongers, Frans
AU - Burnham, Robyn J.
AU - Cai, Zhiquan
AU - Carson, Walter P.
AU - Chave, Jérôme
AU - Chuyong, George B.
AU - Costa, Flavia R.C.
AU - Ewango, Corneille E.N.
AU - Gallagher, Rachael V.
AU - Gerwing, Jeffrey J.
AU - Amezcua, Esteban Gortaire
AU - Hart, Terese
AU - Ibarra-Manríquez, Guillermo
AU - Ickes, Kalan
AU - Kenfack, David
AU - Letcher, Susan G.
AU - Macía, Manuel J.
AU - Makana, Jean Remy
AU - Malizia, Agustina
AU - Martínez-Ramos, Miguel
AU - Mascaro, Joseph
AU - Muthumperumal, Chellam
AU - Muthuramkumar, S.
AU - Nogueira, Anselmo
AU - Parren, Marc P.E.
AU - Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy
AU - Pérez-Salicrup, Diego R.
AU - Putz, Francis E.
AU - Romero-Saltos, Hugo G.
AU - Sridhar Reddy, M.
AU - Sainge, Moses Nsanyi
AU - Thomas, Duncan
AU - Melis, Juliano Van
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/12/31
Y1 - 2014/12/31
N2 - This chapter examines the pantropical patterns of liana abundance and species diversity and their correlates with climatic characteristics to gain insight into which processes are important for the distribution of tropical lianas. The analyses follow from the standard sampling protocol of liana diversity and abundance used by Alwyn Gentry in the 1980s and 1990s. The chapter examines how climatic conditions are associated with liana density and diversity, by analyzing old-growth continental forests at <1050m in elevation and with mean annual precipitation >850mm yr-1.To broaden the discussion of determinants of liana density and diversity beyond climatic factors, the authors comment on differences between temperate and tropical forests and between continental and island regions. The chapter focuses on sites in the Global Liana Database (GLD) from temperate forests in Australia, subtropical forest in Argentina, and an island in the Caribbean, and also reviews the available literature.
AB - This chapter examines the pantropical patterns of liana abundance and species diversity and their correlates with climatic characteristics to gain insight into which processes are important for the distribution of tropical lianas. The analyses follow from the standard sampling protocol of liana diversity and abundance used by Alwyn Gentry in the 1980s and 1990s. The chapter examines how climatic conditions are associated with liana density and diversity, by analyzing old-growth continental forests at <1050m in elevation and with mean annual precipitation >850mm yr-1.To broaden the discussion of determinants of liana density and diversity beyond climatic factors, the authors comment on differences between temperate and tropical forests and between continental and island regions. The chapter focuses on sites in the Global Liana Database (GLD) from temperate forests in Australia, subtropical forest in Argentina, and an island in the Caribbean, and also reviews the available literature.
KW - Global Liana Database (GLD)
KW - Liana diversity
KW - Subtropical forests
KW - Tropical islands
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U2 - 10.1002/9781118392409.ch11
DO - 10.1002/9781118392409.ch11
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84926472392
SN - 9781118392492
SP - 131
EP - 146
BT - Ecology of Lianas
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -