Community Ecology
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Volume 3: Issue 2
Fitting abundance distribution models in tropical arboreal communities of SE Brazil
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R. Cielo Filho Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Campinas State University Caixa postal 6109, Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brasil

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F.R. Martins Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Campinas State University Caixa postal 6109, Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brasil

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A. Gneri Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Campinas State University Caixa postal 6065, Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brasil

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169–180
Online Publication Date:
19 Jul 2005
Publication Date:
01 Nov 2002
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/comec.3.2002.2.4
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Diversity; Diversity; Community structure; Cohens's table; Disturbance; Simpsons's index variance; Stress; Tropical forests
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The species abundance distribution of ecological communities has been represented through several mathematical models, of which the most common are: geometric series, logseries, lognormal, and a type of broken stick, this latter found only in animal communities. There is no consensus on the underlying biological processes, but initial observations on plant communities related these models to equilibrium and high richness (lognormal), stress or disturbance and low richness (logseries and geometric series). Recently the value of these relationships was challenged, and other descriptors were considered better predictors of richness, disturbance and stress. We aimed at investigating how these models and their parameters, as well as dominance and evenness are related with species richness, stress and disturbance in six tropical forest communities, SE Brazil: two well-conserved fragments, two disturbed by fire, and two swampy forests (anoxic stress). The models did not show consistent relationships with richness, disturbance or stress. The parameters and indices of diversity a (logseries) and l (lognormal) varied closely with richness, and the dominance was larger in the communities submitted to stress or disturbance. Our results indicate the need of further studies in order to validate (or refute) the use of abundance distribution models for detection of patterns related to richness, stress or disturbance in tropical arboreal communities. On the other hand, richness and dominance did respond to disturbance and stress.

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