Diversity maintenance mechanism of woody plant in an Ia Mor evergreen broadleaved forest, Gia Lai province
Keywords:
Diversity structure,, coexistence mechanisms,, neighboring species, ISAR model, woody plantAbstract
Understanding the underlying mechanisms that maintain the biodiversity of tropical forests is one of the primary focuses in community ecology. This article presented research results on the individual species-area relationship (ISAR) of woody species in the evergreen broadleaved forest at an Ia Mor area of Gia Lai province. Research data were collected from all individual trees with a diameter at breast height (dbh) ≥ 2.5 cm in a 2 ha -study plot (100 × 200 m). The ISAR models were built to analyze the influence of one species on the neighboring species diversity by using R version 4.1.1 software. Research results showed that the density and individual size of one species affect the individual species structure of the plant community. During the life-history stages, the juvenile trees influence more than the subadult and adult trees in promoting neighboring species diversity. Neutral species were numerically dominant against diversity accumulators and diversity repellers, accounting for 61 to 94 percent of the total number of species analyzed. From the obtained results, this study showed that asymmetric competition among individual trees of different life-history stages and the predominance of neutral species were two underlying processes that adjusted the individual species structure in the Ia Mor evergreen broadleaved forest
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