Resilience to chronic defoliation in a dioecious understorey tropical rain forest palm

  1. Leonel Lopez-Toledo1,2,†,
  2. Niels P. R. Anten3,4,
  3. Bryan A. Endress2,
  4. David D. Ackerly5,
  5. Miguel Martínez-Ramos1,*

Article first published online: 6 JUN 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01992.x

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Journal of Ecology

Journal of Ecology

Volume 100, Issue 5, pages 1245–1256, September 2012

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Lopez-Toledo, L., Anten, N. P. R., Endress, B. A., Ackerly, D. D. and Martínez-Ramos, M. (2012), Resilience to chronic defoliation in a dioecious understorey tropical rain forest palm. Journal of Ecology, 100: 1245–1256. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01992.x

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  1. 1

    Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701. Col. San José de La Huerta, C. P. 58190, Morelia, Michoacán, México

  2. 2

    Division of Applied Plant Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global, 15600 San Pasqual Valley Road Escondido, CA 92027, USA

  3. 3

    Ecology & Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 800.84, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  4. 4

    Center for Crop System Analysis, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430 6700 AK, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  5. 5

    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  1. †

    Present address: Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales-Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia 58337, Michoacán, Mexico.

* Correspondence author. E-mail: mmartine@oikos.unam.mx

  1. †

    Present address: Instituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales-Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia 58337, Michoacán, Mexico.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 14 AUG 2012
  2. Article first published online: 6 JUN 2012
  3. Received 4 September 2011; accepted 4 May 2012 Handling Editor: Luis Santamaria

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Figure S1.Climate inter-annual (1994?2003) variation at the Chajul Biological Station, southeastern Mexico.

Figure S2.Relationships between leaf persistency and stem length for recovering Chamaedorea elegans palms subjected to different defoliation levels.

Figure S3.Relationships between leaf length and stemlength for recovering Chamaedorea elegans palms subjected to different defoliation levels.

Figure S4.Temporal changes inmortality rate of recovering Chamaedorea elegans palms as a function of defoliation treatments and stem length.

Figure S5. Relationships between mean annual fruit production and stem length for recovering Chamaedorea elegans female palms subjected to different defoliation treatments in south-eastMexico.

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