Claim · model-written summary
Epiphyte species frequency distributions were unimodal across both stand sets.
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e0“species frequency distribution was unimodal, regardless of whether considering all stands or only stands with very large epiphyte communities”
t0“vascular epiphytes”
Title
Helena J. R. Einzmann; Letizia Weichgrebe; Gerhard Zotz Journal of Ecology 2021. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13618
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Epiphyte abundance and diversity increased at metacommunity and stand levels over 21 years.
- Observation More than two thirds of epiphyte species had positive population growth rates.
- Observation Colonization of empty Annona trees continued.
- Association The most abundant epiphyte species colonized empty trees first.
- Observation Epiphyte community composition became more similar among colonized trees over time.
- Association Epiphyte habitat size explained much stand-level variation in species richness in all censuses.
- Association Species abundant overall tended to be abundant at the stand scale.
- Association Population growth rates decreased as population size increased, with substantial asynchrony.
- Observation The authors infer that the epiphyte metacommunity has not reached equilibrium.
- Observation The epiphyte metacommunity was still expanding after one century of development.