Aim: Successional and soil filtering processes are key drivers of the assembly of tropical tree communities, yet little is known about how they interact. Herein, we determine whether successional pathways depend on soil type, how the soil filtering effect varies during forest succession and whether succession is accompanied by changes in trait composition. Location: South-western Central African Republic. Methods: We used inventory data on 90 dominant tree species (72% of the stems ≥ 30 cm d.b.h.) in 15,420 plots (each 0.5 ha) distributed over an 8300-km2 mosaic of primary and secondary forests on contrasting clay and sandy soils. We gathered data on six traits: dispersal mode, nitrogen fixation, deciduousness, leaf area, wood density and...
1. Soil nutrient availability and functional traits interact in complex ways during the assembly of ...
peer reviewedRegeneration of tropical forest occurs naturally and mainly through early secondary suc...
1. Despite extensive development of successional theory, few empirical studies have evaluated whethe...
International audienceAim: Successional and soil filtering processes are key drivers of the assembly...
1.Secondary forests are increasingly dominant in human-modified tropical landscapes, but the drivers...
Secondary forests are increasingly dominant in human-modified tropical landscapes, but the drivers o...
1. Soil resource partitioning and dispersal limitation have been shown to shape the tree community s...
Functional Diversity is considered an important driver of community assembly in environmental and su...
1. Many studies have examined individual environmental drivers of tropical tree species distribution...
Second-growth forests provide an important avenue for at least partially recuperating biodiversity a...
1. A longstanding goal of ecology and conservation biology is to understand the environmental and bi...
The role of niche assembly processes in shaping ecological communities is a subject of great interes...
Background and aims – There is increasing recognition that plant traits mediate environmental influe...
Both habitat filtering and dispersal limitation influence the compositional structure of forest comm...
Tropical tree communities are diverse in both their taxonomic composition and in their functional st...
1. Soil nutrient availability and functional traits interact in complex ways during the assembly of ...
peer reviewedRegeneration of tropical forest occurs naturally and mainly through early secondary suc...
1. Despite extensive development of successional theory, few empirical studies have evaluated whethe...
International audienceAim: Successional and soil filtering processes are key drivers of the assembly...
1.Secondary forests are increasingly dominant in human-modified tropical landscapes, but the drivers...
Secondary forests are increasingly dominant in human-modified tropical landscapes, but the drivers o...
1. Soil resource partitioning and dispersal limitation have been shown to shape the tree community s...
Functional Diversity is considered an important driver of community assembly in environmental and su...
1. Many studies have examined individual environmental drivers of tropical tree species distribution...
Second-growth forests provide an important avenue for at least partially recuperating biodiversity a...
1. A longstanding goal of ecology and conservation biology is to understand the environmental and bi...
The role of niche assembly processes in shaping ecological communities is a subject of great interes...
Background and aims – There is increasing recognition that plant traits mediate environmental influe...
Both habitat filtering and dispersal limitation influence the compositional structure of forest comm...
Tropical tree communities are diverse in both their taxonomic composition and in their functional st...
1. Soil nutrient availability and functional traits interact in complex ways during the assembly of ...
peer reviewedRegeneration of tropical forest occurs naturally and mainly through early secondary suc...
1. Despite extensive development of successional theory, few empirical studies have evaluated whethe...