Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density dependence in a lowland rain forest

Mailyn A. Gonzalez (1) , Aurã©lien Roger (2, 1) , Elodie A Courtois (3, 1) , Franck Jabot (4, 1) , Natalia Norden (5, 1) , C. E. Timothy Paine (3) , Christopher Baraloto (3) , Christophe Thã©baud (1) , Jã©rã´me Chave (1)

1 EDB - Evolution et Diversité Biologique
2 UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne
3 ECOFOG - Ecologie des forêts de Guyane
4 AgroParisTech
5 UCONN - University of Connecticut

Keywords: Tropical plant communities; APG II; rbcL megatree; Density dependence; DNA barcoding; French guiana; Phylogenetic diversity; Species diversity

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Genetics

Mailyn A. Gonzalez, Aurã©lien Roger, Elodie A Courtois, Franck Jabot, Natalia Norden, et al.. Shifts in species and phylogenetic diversity between sapling and tree communities indicate negative density dependence in a lowland rain forest. Journal of Applied Ecology, 2010, 98 (1), pp.137-146. ⟨10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01607.x⟩. ⟨hal-01095399⟩