Trees represent community composition of other plant life-forms, but not their diversity, abundance or responses to fragmentation

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	Trees represent community composition of other plant life-forms, but not their diversity, abundance or responses to fragmentation
	Pasion, Bonifacio O.; Roeder, Mareike; Liu, Jiajia; Yasuda, Mika; Corlett, Richard T.; Slik, J. W. Ferry; Tomlinson, Kyle W.; Tomlinson, KW (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Integrat Conservat, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China.
刊名	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
	2018
卷号	8 期号:x 页码:-
ISSN号	2045-2322
英文摘要	Our understanding of the patterns of plant diversity in tropical forests and their responses to fragmentation are mostly based on tree surveys. But are these patterns and responses representative of other plant life-forms? We sampled trees, lianas, herbs, and ferns in a fragmented tropical forest landscape in South-west China. We compared community types generated by clustering presence-absence data for the non-tree life-forms with those generated for trees. We tested how well measures of tree diversity, density and composition, predicted cognate indices in other life-forms. We compared fragmentation responses, with respect to the three measures, of all four life-forms. Presence-absence data from all life-forms generated three community clusters, with only small differences between classifications, suggesting that tree data identified community types representative of all vascular plant life-forms. Tree species diversity and density indices poorly predicted cognate indices of lianas and ferns, but represented herbs well. However, the slopes of these relationships differed substantially between community types. All life-forms responded to fragmentation variables but their responses did not consistently match with responses of trees. Plot-level tree data can identify vegetation community types, but is poorly representative of the richness and density of other life-forms, and poorly represents forest fragmentation responses for the entire plant community.
学科主题	Science & Technology - Other Topics
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语种	英语
公开日期	2018-09-05
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.xtbg.org.cn/handle/353005/10996]
专题	西双版纳热带植物园_2012年后新成立研究组
通讯作者	Corlett, Richard T.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pasion, Bonifacio O.,Roeder, Mareike,Liu, Jiajia,et al. Trees represent community composition of other plant life-forms, but not their diversity, abundance or responses to fragmentation[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2018,8(x):-.
APA	Pasion, Bonifacio O..,Roeder, Mareike.,Liu, Jiajia.,Yasuda, Mika.,Corlett, Richard T..,...&Tomlinson, KW .(2018).Trees represent community composition of other plant life-forms, but not their diversity, abundance or responses to fragmentation.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,8(x),-.
MLA	Pasion, Bonifacio O.,et al."Trees represent community composition of other plant life-forms, but not their diversity, abundance or responses to fragmentation".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 8.x(2018):-.