ArticleEcology and evolution2023
Which demographic processes control competitive equilibria? Bayesian calibration of a size-structured forest population model.
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- Understanding Beech Predominance Through Sapling and Adult Demography Along Environmental Gradients.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Synergies and trade-offs in forest carbon pools: separating universal drivers from forest type-specific controls.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Which demographic processes control competitive equilibria? Bayesian calibration of a size-structured forest population model.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
In forest communities, light competition is a key process for community assembly. Species' differences in seedling and sapling tolerance to shade cast by overstory trees is thought to determine species composition at late-successional stages. Most forests are distant from these late-successional equilibria, impeding a formal evaluation of their potential species composition. To extrapolate competitive equilibria from short-term data, we therefore introduce the JAB model, a parsimonious dynamic model with interacting size-structured populations, which focuses on sapling demography including the tolerance to overstory competition. We apply the JAB model to a two-"species" system from temperate European forests, that is, the shade-tolerant species
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