Search Results - "Gunatilleke, C V Savitri"
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Effects of topography on structuring local species assemblages in a Sri Lankan mixed dipterocarp forest
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-01-2013)“…1. One of the primary goals in community ecology is to determine the relative importance of processes and mechanisms that control biodiversity. Here, we…”
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Spatial patterns reveal negative density dependence and habitat associations in tropical trees
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-09-2011)“…Understanding how plant species coexist in tropical rainforests is one of the biggest challenges in community ecology. One prominent hypothesis suggests that…”
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Testing the independent species’ arrangement assertion made by theories of stochastic geometry of biodiversity
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-08-2012)“…The assertion that the spatial location of different species is independent of each other is fundamental in major ecological theories such as neutral theory…”
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Neighborhood diversity of large trees shows independent species patterns in a mixed dipterocarp forest in Sri Lanka
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-07-2015)“…Interactions among neighboring individuals influence plant performance and should create spatial patterns in local community structure. In order to assess the…”
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Effect of spatial processes and topography on structuring species assemblages in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-02-2014)“…Niche and neutral theories emphasize different processes that contribute to the maintenance of species diversity and should leave different spatial structures…”
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How individual species structure diversity in tropical forests
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-11-2007)“…A persistent challenge in ecology is to explain the high diversity of tree species in tropical forests. Although the role of species characteristics in…”
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Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests
Published in PloS one (01-06-2016)“…Studies of forest dynamics plots (FDPs) have revealed a variety of negative density-dependent (NDD) demographic interactions, especially among conspecific…”
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Correction: Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests
Published in PloS one (20-12-2016)“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156913.]…”
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Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (25-05-2018)“…Chisholm and Fung claim that our method of estimating conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) in recruitment is systematically biased, and present an…”
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Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (25-05-2018)“…Hülsmann and Hartig suggest that ecological mechanisms other than specialized natural enemies or intraspecific competition contribute to our estimates of…”
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Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude
Published in Royal Society open science (01-09-2018)“…The relationship between β-diversity and latitude still remains to be a core question in ecology because of the lack of consensus between studies. One…”
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Impacts of cardamom cultivation on montane forest ecosystems in Sri Lanka
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-06-2012)“…► We investigated the effects of cardamom cultivation on high conservation value montane rain forests in central Sri Lanka. ► The density of trees, saplings…”
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Strategies for restoring tree seedling recruitment in high conservation value tropical montane forests underplanted with cardamom
Published in Applied vegetation science (01-01-2015)“…QUESTION: What strategies are most appropriate for restoring tree seedling recruitment whilst avoiding the spread of invasive plant species in high…”
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Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (30-06-2017)“…Theory predicts that higher biodiversity in the tropics is maintained by specialized interactions among plants and their natural enemies that result in…”
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Temporal population variability in local forest communities has mixed effects on tree species richness across a latitudinal gradient
Published in Ecology letters (01-01-2020)“…Among the local processes that determine species diversity in ecological communities, fluctuation‐dependent mechanisms that are mediated by temporal…”
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Effects of topography on structuring local species assemblages in a S ri L ankan mixed dipterocarp forest
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-01-2013)“…One of the primary goals in community ecology is to determine the relative importance of processes and mechanisms that control biodiversity. Here, we examined…”
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The effect of shade on leaf structure and physiology of tree seedlings from a mixed dipterocarp forest
Published in Botanical journal of the Linnean Society (01-11-2011)“…This study builds upon past work investigating seedling leaf physiology and structure among tropical trees. We seek to explain how related and unrelated…”
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