Ecological Archives E088-135-A3

Simon A. Queenborough, David F. R. P. Burslem, Nancy C. Garwood, and Renato Valencia. 2007. Neighborhood and community interactions determine the spatial pattern of tropical tree seedling survival. Ecology 88:2248–2258.

Appendix C. Survival of seedlings of 15 Myristicaceae species in 30 seedling plots within the Yasuní forest dynamics plot over three years.

 

Seedling abundance

Adult abundance

Initial seedling
density/ha

Species

Pre-existing

Surviving

 

Frequency

Basal area

 
 

June 2002

Dec 2002

Dec 2003

June 2004

June 2005

% survival

>1 cm dbh

>10 cm dbh

>1 cm dbh

>10 cm dbh

 

Compsoneura capitellata

47

44

41

41

41

0.87

110

35

1.36

1.24

38

Compsoneura sprucei

15

15

13

13

13

0.87

44

6

0.30

0.26

12

Iryanthera grandis

14

14

13

12

12

0.86

61

24

1.84

1.78

12

Iryanthera juruensis

12

11

8

8

6

0.50

136

8

0.52

0.38

10

Iryanthera hostmannii

153

151

137

128

125

0.82

838

6

0.86

0.15

127

Otoba glycycarpa

456

417

356

311

269

0.59

373

203

39.74

39.48

378

Virola dixonii

46

46

39

38

31

0.67

74

9

1.11

0.99

38

Virola duckei

616

582

442

325

237

0.38

123

65

13.87

13.77

513

Virola elongata

443

389

302

263

230

0.52

78

13

2.73

2.67

369

Virola flexuosa

9

9

9

7

7

0.78

75

27

3.16

3.06

8

Virola 'microfuzzy'

227

201

185

159

129

0.57

71

13

2.73

2.66

189

Virola mollissima

58

55

52

48

41

0.71

52

9

0.91

0.86

48

Virola obovata

47

46

46

46

46

0.98

83

18

0.88

0.81

38

Virola pavonis

94

88

72

63

53

0.56

212

62

8.29

8.17

78

Virola cf. calophylla

93

89

78

71

65

0.70

224

25

4.07

3.92

78

TOTAL

2330

2157

1793

1533

1305

 

2554

523

82.37

80.20

 


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