24 janvier
Kenneth JOPS Variation in Life History and the Structure of Plant Communities
invité par Hélène MORLON - Section Ecologie et Biologie de l’Evolution
12h
Le séminaire de Kenneth JOPS (University of Illinois) aura lieu dans la salle Favard, IBENS 46 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
Abstract : Plants have evolved a wide variety of life history strategies, from annual plants that complete their life cycle in a year to long-lived trees that can take decades to reach reproductive maturity. We demonstrate through stochastic modeling that this variation has significant consequences for community assembly and biodiversity. Applying this approach to a neotropical forest plot in Barro Colorado Island, Panama, we can explain fluctuations in species abundances across a large and diverse system using only census and life history data.