dc.contributor.author | Dexter, KG | |
dc.contributor.author | Smart, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Baldauf, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Baker, TR | |
dc.contributor.author | Balinga, MPB | |
dc.contributor.author | Brienen, RJW | |
dc.contributor.author | Fauset, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Feldpausch, TR | |
dc.contributor.author | Ferreira-Da Silva, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Muledi, JI | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, SL | |
dc.contributor.author | Lopez-Gonzalez, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Marimon-Junior, BH | |
dc.contributor.author | Marimon, BS | |
dc.contributor.author | Meerts, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Page, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Parthasarathy, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Phillips, OL | |
dc.contributor.author | Sunderland, TCH | |
dc.contributor.author | Theilade, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Weintritt, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Affum-Baffoe, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Araujo, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Arroyo, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Begne, SK | |
dc.contributor.author | Carvalho-Das Neves, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Collins, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Cuni-Sanchez, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Djuikouo, MNK | |
dc.contributor.author | Elias, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Foli, EG | |
dc.contributor.author | Jeffery, KJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Killeen, TJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Malhi, Y | |
dc.contributor.author | Maracahipes, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Mendoza, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Monteagudo-Mendoza, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Morandi, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Oliveira-Dos Santos, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Parada, AG | |
dc.contributor.author | Pardo, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Peh, KS-H | |
dc.contributor.author | Salomao, RP | |
dc.contributor.author | Silveira, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Sinatora-Miranda, H | |
dc.contributor.author | Slik, JWF | |
dc.contributor.author | Sonke, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Taedoumg, HE | |
dc.contributor.author | Toledo, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Umetsu, RK | |
dc.contributor.author | Villaroel, RG | |
dc.contributor.author | Vos, VA | |
dc.contributor.author | White, LJT | |
dc.contributor.author | Pennington, RT | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-31T13:37:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-08-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | To provide an inter-continental overview of the floristics and biogeography of drought-adapted tropical vegetation formations, we compiled a dataset of inventory plots in South America (n=93), Africa (n=84), and Asia (n=92) from savannas (subject to fire), seasonally dry tropical forests (not generally subject to fire), and moist forests (no fire). We analysed floristic similarity across vegetation formations within and between continents. Our dataset strongly suggests that different formations tend to be strongly clustered floristically by continent, and that among continents, superficially similar vegetation formations (e.g. savannas) are floristically highly dissimilar. Neotropical moist forest, savanna and seasonally dry tropical forest are floristically distinct, but elsewhere there is no clear floristic division of savanna and seasonally dry tropical forest, though moist and dry formations are separate. We suggest that because of their propensity to burn, many formations termed “dry forest” in Africa and Asia are best considered as savannas. The floristic differentiation of similar vegetation formations from different continents suggests that cross-continental generalisations of the ecology, biology and conservation of savannas and seasonally dry tropical forests may be difficult. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | KGD, RTP, TRB, and OLP acknowledge the National
Environment Research Council (U.K.) Standard Grant NE/
I028122/1, and KGD and RTP thank CIFOR, through their
funding from USAID’s Biodiversity Bureau for financial
support. KGD was funded by an NSF International
Research Fellowship (OISE-1103573) during the time this
research was completed. This paper is in part a product of
the RAINFOR network, supported by a Gordon and Betty
Moore Foundation grant, the European Union's Seventh
Framework Programme (GEO-CARBON; ERC grant “Tropical
Forests in the Changing Earth System), and a Natural
Environment Research Council (NERC) Urgency Grant and
NERC Consortium Grants AMAZONICA (NE/F005806/1)
and TROBIT (NE/D005590/1). RJWB is funded independently
by Research Fellowship (NE/I021160/1). SLL is
funded by a Royal Society Fellowship. OLP is supported
by an ERC Advanced Grant and a Royal Society Wolfson
Research Merit Award. This work was partially supported
by a grant from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific
and Technological Development (CNPq)/Long Term Ecological
Research (PELD) project (Proc. 403725/2012-7). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 17 (supplement 2), pp. 10 - 32 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1505/146554815815834859 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34568 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Commonwealth Forestry Association | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2015 Commonwealth Forestry Association | en_GB |
dc.subject | savanna | en_GB |
dc.subject | seasonally dry tropical forest | en_GB |
dc.subject | moist forest | en_GB |
dc.subject | metacommunities | en_GB |
dc.subject | resilience | en_GB |
dc.title | Floristics and biogeography of vegetation in seasonally dry tropical regions | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1465-5489 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available on open access from the Commonwealth Forestry Association via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | International Forestry Review | en_GB |