Wiegand, Kerstin

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","376"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","386"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","95"],["dc.contributor.author","Punchi-Manage, Ruwan"],["dc.contributor.author","Wiegand, Thorsten"],["dc.contributor.author","Wiegand, Kerstin"],["dc.contributor.author","Getzin, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri"],["dc.contributor.author","Gunatilleke, I. A. U. Nimal"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:52:23Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:52:23Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","Niche and neutral theories emphasize different processes that contribute to the maintenance of species diversity and should leave different spatial structures in species assemblages. In this study we used variation partitioning in combination with distance‐based Moran's eigenvector maps and habitat variables to determine the relative importance of the effects of pure habitat, pure spatial, and spatially structured habitat processes on the spatial distribution of tree species composition and richness in a 25‐ha tropical rain forest of Sinharaja/Sri Lanka. We analyzed the contribution of those components at three spatial scales (10 m, 20 m, and 50 m) for all trees and the three life stages: recruits, juveniles, and adults. At the 10‐m scale, 80% of the variation in species composition remained unexplained for recruits and adults, but only 55% for juveniles. With increasingly broader scales these figures were strongly reduced, mainly by an increasing contribution of the spatially structured habitat component, which explained 4–30%, 20–47%, and 8–35% of variation in species composition for recruits, juveniles, and adults, respectively. The pure spatial component was most important at the 20‐m scale and reached 20%, 32%, and 23% for recruits, juveniles, and adults, respectively. The spatially structured habitat component described variability at broader scales than the pure spatial component. Our results suggest that stochastic processes and spatially structuring processes of community dynamics, such as dispersal limitation and habitat association, contributed jointly to explain species composition and richness at the Sinharaja forest, but their relative importance changed with scale and life stage. Species assembly at the local scale was more strongly impacted by stochasticity, whereas the signal of habitat was stronger at the 50‐m scale where plant‐scale stochasticity is averaged out. Recent research points to an emerging consensus on the relative contribution of stochasticity, habitat, and spatial processes in governing community assembly, but how these components change with life stage, and how this is influenced by sample size, remains to be explored."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1890/12-2102.1"],["dc.identifier.gro","3148904"],["dc.identifier.pmid","24669731"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/5541"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Wiegand Crossref Import"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0012-9658"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Abteilung Ökosystemmodellierung"],["dc.subject.gro","Distance-based Moran's eigenvector maps"],["dc.subject.gro","Neutral theory"],["dc.subject.gro","Niche theory"],["dc.subject.gro","Sinharaja forest"],["dc.subject.gro","Spatial scale"],["dc.subject.gro","Species composition and richness"],["dc.subject.gro","Sri Lanka"],["dc.subject.gro","Variation partitioning"],["dc.title","Effect of spatial processes and topography on structuring species assemblages in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1823"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","7"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1834"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","96"],["dc.contributor.author","Punchi-Manage, Ruwan"],["dc.contributor.author","Wiegand, Thorsten"],["dc.contributor.author","Wiegand, Kerstin"],["dc.contributor.author","Getzin, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Huth, Andreas"],["dc.contributor.author","Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri"],["dc.contributor.author","Gunatilleke, I. A. U. Nimal"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:52:23Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:52:23Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","Interactions among neighbors influence plant performance and should create spatial patterns in local community structure. In order to assess the role of large trees in generating spatial patterns in local species richness we used the individual species-area relationship (ISAR) to evaluate the species richness of trees of different size classes (and dead trees) in neighborhoods with varying size around large trees of different focal species. To reveal signals of species interactions we compared the ISAR function of the individuals of focal species with that of randomly selected nearby locations. We expected that large trees should strongly affect the community structure of smaller trees in their neighborhood, but that these effects should fade away with increasing size class. Unexpectedly we found that only few focal species showed signals of species interactions with trees of the different size classes and that this was less likely for less abundant focal species. However, the few and relatively weak depa..."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1890/14-1477.1"],["dc.identifier.gro","3148901"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/5538"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Wiegand Crossref Import"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0012-9658"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Abteilung Ökosystemmodellierung"],["dc.subject.gro","Independence null model"],["dc.subject.gro","Individual species-area relationship"],["dc.subject.gro","Neighborhood diversity"],["dc.subject.gro","Point pattern analysis"],["dc.subject.gro","Sinharaja tropical forest"],["dc.subject.gro","Spatial scale"],["dc.subject.gro","Stochastic dilution"],["dc.title","Neighborhood diversity of large trees shows independent species patterns in a mixed dipterocarp forest in Sri Lanka"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]