Evidence concerning mechanisms hypothesized to explain species coexistence in hyper-
diverse communities is reviewed for tropical forest plants. Three hypotheses receive strong …

Understanding tropical forest succession is critical for the development of tropical forest
conservation strategies worldwide, given that tropical secondary forests can be considered …

Our knowledge of the ecology of tropical rain-forest trees is limited, with detailed information
available for perhaps only a few hundred of the many thousand of species that occur. Yet a …

The maintenance of species diversity by treefall gaps is a long‐standing paradigm in forest
ecology. Gaps are presumed to provide an environment in which tree species of differing …

Small-scale gap disturbance in forests is reviewed. Caused by the death of individual or
multiple trees with subsequent fall from the canopy, gaps have been extensively studied in …

Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently
facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures …

The ecology of the period between seed germination and the establishment of independent
juvenile plants is discussed with reference to the utilization of seed reserves, resource …

To explore the importance of light availability for seedling growth in low light environments,
we examined light-dependent growth, biomass allocation and mortality of tree seedlings …

We examined the importance of intermediate-sized gaps and a dense shrub layer on tree
seedling recruitment in a southern Appalachian deciduous forest. We created 12 canopy …

Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the
fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other …