Biogeographical patterns of liana abundance and diversity
- DeWalt, Saara J.
- Schnitzer, Stefan A.
- Alves, Luciana Ferreira
- Bongers, Frans
- Burnham, Robyn Jeanette
- Cai, Zhiquan
- Carson, Walter P.
- Chave, Jérôme
- Chuyong, George Bindeh
- Costa, Flávia Regina Capellotto
- Ewango, Corneille E.N.
- Gallagher, Rachael V.
- Gerwing, Jeffrey John
- Amezcua, Esteban Gortaire
- Hart, Terese B.
- Ibarra-Manríquez, Guillermo
- Ickes, Kalan
- Kenfack, David
- Letcher, Susan G.
- Macía, Manuel J.
- Makana, Jean Rémy
- Malizia, Agustina
- Martínez-Ramos, Miguel
- Mascaro, Joseph
- Muthumperumal, Chellam
- Muthuramkumar, Sankaralingam
- Nogueira, Anselmo
- Parren, Marc P.E.
- Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy
- Pérez-Salicrup, Diego R.
- Putz, Francis E.
- Romero-Saltos, Hugo
- Sridhar Reddy, M.
- Sainge, Moses Nsanyi
- Thomas, Duncan W.
- Melis, Juliano Van
DOIAbstract
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...
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