Summary 1 This article reviews the application of some summary statistics from current
theory of spatial point processes for extracting information from spatial patterns of plants …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Ecologists often face the task of studying the association between single species and one or
several groups of sites representing habitat types, community types, or other categories …

The importance of niche vs. neutral assembly mechanisms in structuring tropical tree
communities remains an important unsettled question in community ecology [Bell G (2005) …

Mechanistic models of community assembly state that biotic and abiotic filters constrain
species establishment through selection on their functional traits. Predicting this assembly …

Both habitat filtering and dispersal limitation influence the compositional structure of forest
communities, but previous studies examining the relative contributions of these processes …

Water availability is the most important factor determining tree species distribution in the
tropics, but the underlying mechanisms are still not clear. In this study, we compared …

Ecologists have long recognized that plant performance is affected by the density and
composition of neighbouring individuals. With the advent of highly resolved species‐level …

We used point pattern analysis to examine the spatial distribution of 46 common tree
species (diameter at breast height> 10 cm) in a fully mapped-m tropical forest plot in …

Clustering at multiple critical scales may be common for plants since many different factors
and processes may cause clustering. This is especially true for tropical rain forests for which …