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  • Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories 
    Wills, Christopher; Wang, Bin; Fang, Shuai; Wang, Yunquan; Jin, Yi; Lutz, James; Thompson, Jill; Harms, Kyle E.; Pulla, Sandeep; Pasion, Bonifacio; Germain, Sara; Liu, Heming; Smokey, Joseph; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Butt, Nathalie; Chu, Chengjin; Chuyong, George; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Dattaraja, H. S.; Davies, Stuart; Ediriweera, Sisira; Esufali, Shameema; Fletcher, Christine Dawn; Gunatilleke, Nimal; Gunatilleke, Savi; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; He, Fangliang; Hubbell, Stephen; Hao, Zhanqing; Itoh, Akira; Kenfack, David; Li, Buhang; Li, Xiankun; Ma, Keping; Morecroft, Michael; Mi, Xiangcheng; Malhi, Yadvinder; Ong, Perry; Rodriguez, Lillian Jennifer; Suresh, H. S.; Sun, I. Fang; Sukumar, Raman; Tan, Sylvester; Thomas, Duncan; Uriarte, Maria; Wang, Xihua; Wang, Xugao; Yao, T. L.; Zimmermann, Jess (2021)
    Author summary Worldwide, ecosystems are collapsing or in danger of collapse, but the precise causes of these collapses are often unknown. Observational and experimental evidence shows that all ecosystems are characterized ...
  • Intraspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent seedling recruitment in a subtropical evergreen forest 
    Du, Yanjun; Queenborough, Simon A.; Chen, Lei; Wang, Yunquan; Mi, Xiangcheng; Ma, Keping; Comita, Liza S. (2017)
    Recent evidence suggests that plant performance can be influenced by the phylogenetic diversity of neighboring plants. However, no study to date has examined the effect of such phylogenetic density dependence on the ...
  • Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of China 
    Legendre, Pierre; Mi, Xiangcheng; Ren, Haibao; Ma, Keping; Yu, Mingjian; Sun, I-F; He, Fangliang (2009)
    The classical environmental control model assumes that species distribution is determined by the spatial variation of underlying habitat conditions. This niche-based model has recently been challenged by the neutral theory ...
  • Patterns of nitrogen-fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America 
    Menge, Duncan N. L.; Chisholm, Ryan A.; Davies, Stuart J.; Salim, Kamariah Abu; Allen, David; Alvarez, Mauricio; Bourg, Norm; Brockelman, Warren Y.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Butt, Nathalie; Cao, Min; Chanthorn, Wirong; Chao, Wei-Chun; Clay, Keith; Condit, Richard S.; Cordell, Susan; da Silva, João Batista; Dattaraja, H. S.; de Andrade, Ana Cristina Segalin; Oliveira, Alexandre A. de; Ouden, Jan den; Drescher, Michael; Fletcher, Christine; Giardina, Christian P.; Gunatilleke, C. V. S.; Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N.; Hau, Billy C. H.; He, Fangliang; Howe, Robert; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Inman-Narahari, Faith M.; Jansen, Patrick A.; Johnson, Daniel J.; Kong, Lee Sing; Král, Kamil; Ku, Chen-Chia; Lai, Jiangshan; Larson, Andrew J.; Li, Xiankun; Li, Yide; Lin, Luxiang; Lin, YiChing; Liu, Shirong; Lum, Shawn K. Y.; Lutz, James A.; Ma, Keping; Malhi, Yadvinder; McMahon, Sean; McShea, William; Mi, Xiangcheng; Morecroft, Michael; Myers, Jonathan A.; Nathalang, Anuttara; Novotny, Vojtech; Ong, Perry; Orwig, David A.; Ostertag, Rebecca; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Phillips, Richard P.; Rahman, Kassim Abd; Sack, Lawren; Sang, Weiguo; Shen, Guochun; Shringi, Ankur; Shue, Jessica; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I. -F; Suresh, H. S.; Tan, Sylvester; Thomas, Sean C.; Toko, Pagi S.; Valencia, Renato; Vallejo, Martha I.; Vicentini, Alberto; Vr ka, Tomá ; Wang, Bin; Wang, Xihua; Weiblen, George D.; Wolf, Amy; Xu, Han; Yap, Sandra; Zhu, Li; Fung, Tak (2019)
    Symbiotic nitrogen (N)-fixing trees can provide large quantities of new N to ecosystems, but only if they are sufficiently abundant. The overall abundance and latitudinal abundance distributions of N-fixing trees are well ...
  • Phylogenetic and Functional Alpha and Beta Diversity in Temperate and Tropical Tree Communities 
    Swenson, Nathan G.; Erickson, David L.; Mi, Xiangcheng; Bourg, Norman Alan; Forero-Montana, Jimena; Ge, Xuejun; Howe, Robert; Lake, Jeffrey K.; Liu, Xiaojuan; Ma, Keping; Pei, Nancai; Thompson, Jill; Uriarte, María; Wolf, Amy T.; Wright, S. Joseph; Ye, Wanhu; Zhang, Jinlong; Zimmerman, Jess; Kress, W. John (2012)
  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests 
    Chisholm, Ryan A.; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Abdul Rahman, Kassim; Bebber, Daniel P.; Bin, Yue; Bohlman, Stephanie A.; Bourg, Norman A.; Brinks, Joshua; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Butt, Nathalie; Cao, Honglin; Cao, Min; Cárdenas, Dairon; Chang, Li-Wan; Chiang, Jyh-Min; Chuyong, George; Condit, Richard S.; Dattaraja, Handanakere S.; Davies, Stuart; Duque, Alvaro; Fletcher, Christine; Gunatilleke, Nimal; Gunatilleke, Savitri; Hao, Zhanqing; Harrison, Rhett D.; Howe, Robert; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Itoh, Akira; Kenfack, David; Kiratiprayoon, Somboon; Larson, Andrew J.; Lian, Juyu; Lin, Dunmei; Liu, Haifeng; Lutz, James A.; Ma, Keping; Malhi, Yadvinder; McMahon, Sean M.; McShea, William J.; Meegaskumbura, Madhava; Mohd Razman, Salim; Morecroft, Michael D.; Nytch, Christopher J.; Oliveira, Alexandre; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Pulla, Sandeep; Punchi-Manage, Ruwan; Romero-Saltos, Hugo; Sang, Weiguo; Schurman, Jon; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I-F; Suresh, Hebbalalu S.; Tan, Sylvester; Thomas, Duncan; Thomas, Sean; Thompson, Jill; Valencia, Renato; Wolf, Amy; Yap, Sandra; Ye, Wanhui; Yuan, Zuoqiang; Zimmerman, Jess K. (2013)
    * The relationship between species richness and ecosystem function, as measured by productivity or biomass, is of long-standing theoretical and practical interest in ecology. This is especially true for forests, which ...
  • Six steps for building a technological knowledge base for future taxonomic work 
    Orr, Michael C.; Feijó, Anderson; Chesters, Douglas; Vogler, Alfried P.; Bossert, Silas; Ferrari, Rafael R.; Costello, Mark John; Hughes, Alice C.; Krogmann, Lars; Ascher, John S.; Zhou, Xin; Li, De-Zhu; Bai, Ming; Chen, Jun; Ge, Deyan; Luo, Arong; Qiao, Gexia; Williams, Paul H.; Zhang, Ai-bing; Ma, Keping; Zhang, Feng; Zhu, Chao-Dong (2022)
  • Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude 
    Sreekar, Rachakonda; Katabuchi, Masatoshi; Nakamura, Akihiro; Corlett, Richard T.; Slik, J. W. F.; Fletcher, Christine; He, Fangliang; Weiblen, George D.; Shen, Guochun; Xu, Han; Sun, I. -F; Cao, Ke; Ma, Keping; Chang, Li-Wan; Cao, Min; Jiang, Mingxi; Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N.; Ong, Perry; Yap, Sandra; Gunatilleke, C. V. S.; Novotny, Vojtech; Brockelman, Warren Y.; Xiang, Wusheng; Mi, Xiangcheng; Li, Xiankun; Wang, Xihua; Qiao, Xiujuan; Li, Yide; Tan, Sylvester; Condit, Richard; Harrison, Rhett D.; Koh, Lian Pin (2018)
    The relationship between β-diversity and latitude still remains to be a core question in ecology because of the lack of consensus between studies. One hypothesis for the lack of consensus between studies is that spatial ...
  • Species-area relationships explained by the joint effects of dispersal limitation and habitat heterogeneity 
    Shen, Guochun; Yu, Mingjian; Hu, Xin-Sheng; Mi, Xiangcheng; Ren, Haibao; Sun, I-F; Ma, Keping (2009)
    Species area relationships (SARs) characterize the spatial distribution of species diversity in community ecology, but the biological mechanisms underlying the SARs have not been fully explored. Here, we examined the roles ...
  • Stochastic dilution effects weaken deterministic effects of niche-based processes in species rich forests 
    Wang, Xugao; Wiegand, Thorsten; Kraft, Nathan Jared Boardman; Swenson, Nathan Garrick; Davies, Stuart J.; Hao, Zhanqing; Howe, Robert W.; Lin, Yiching; Ma, Keping; Mi, Xiangcheng; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sun, I. F.; Wolf, Amy T. (2016)
    Recent theory predicts that stochastic dilution effects may result in species-rich communities with statistically independent species spatial distributions, even if the underlying ecological processes structuring the ...
  • Temporal population variability in local forest communities has mixed effects on tree species richness across a latitudinal gradient 
    Fung, Tak; Chisholm, Ryan A.; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Bourg, Norm; Brockelman, Warren Y.; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao; Chitra-Tarak, Rutuja; Chuyong, George; Condit, Richard; Dattaraja, Handanakere S.; Davies, Stuart J.; Ewango, Corneille E. N.; Fewless, Gary; Fletcher, Christine; Gunatilleke, C. V. S.; Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N.; Hao, Zhanqing; Hogan, J. A.; Howe, Robert; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Kenfack, David; Lin, YiChing; Ma, Keping; Makana, Jean-Remy; McMahon, Sean; McShea, William J.; Mi, Xiangcheng; Nathalang, Anuttara; Ong, Perry S.; Parker, Geoffrey; Rau, E. -P; Shue, Jessica; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I. -F; Suresh, Hebbalalu S.; Tan, Sylvester; Thomas, Duncan; Thompson, Jill; Valencia, Renato; Vallejo, Martha I.; Wang, Xugao; Wang, Yunquan; Wijekoon, Pushpa; Wolf, Amy; Yap, Sandra; Zimmerman, Jess (2020)
    Among the local processes that determine species diversity in ecological communities, fluctuation-dependent mechanisms that are mediated by temporal variability in the abundances of species populations have received ...
  • Topographic Variation in Aboveground Biomass in a Subtropical Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forest in China 
    Lin, Dunmei; Lai, Jiangshan; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Mi, Xiangcheng; Ma, Keping (2012)
    The subtropical forest biome occupies about 25% of China, with species diversity only next to tropical forests. Despite the recognized importance of subtropical forest in regional carbon storage and cycling, uncertainties ...
  • Traits of dominant tree species predict local scale variation in forest aboveground and topsoil carbon stocks 
    Lin, Dunmei; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Lai, Jiangshan; Mi, Xiangcheng; Ren, Haibao; Ma, Keping (2016)
  • Tree co-occurrence and transcriptomic response to drought 
    Swenson, Nathan G.; Iida, Yoshiko; Howe, Robert; Wolf, Amy; Umaña, María Natalia; Petprakob, Krittika; Turner, Benjamin L.; Ma, Keping (2017)
    The distribution and co-occurrence of species are partly the outcome of their interactions with environmental drivers. Drought is a key driver related to the distribution of plant species. Drought events continue to increase ...
  • The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots 
    De Cáceres, Miquel; Legendre, Pierre; Valencia, Renato; Cao, Min; Chang, Li-Wan; Chuyong, George; Condit, Richard S.; Hao, Zhanqing; Hsieh, Chang-Fu; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Kenfack, David; Ma, Keping; Mi, Xiangcheng; Noor, Supardi; Nur, Md; Kassim, Abdul Rahman; Ren, Haibao; Su, Sheng-Hsin; Sun, I. -F; Thomas, Duncan; Ye, Wanhui; He, Fangliang (2012)
    Aimsâ With the aim of understanding why some of the world's forests exhibit higher tree beta diversity values than others, we asked: (1) what is the contribution of environmentally related variation versus pure spatial ...

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