FOR201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kayapo People, Clidemia Hirta, Ecological Succession
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Lecture 5: tree autecology and its importance to tropical conservation. Autecology = how trees go about in different ways making a living. Superficial view of forests and trees will be similar from place to place. Over asia, africa, latin america have similar looking trees. There are ecologically quite similar species occurring. Have different physiology, structure of leaves, biotic interactions. All these leaves have a petiole that"s stuck in middle of leaf called peltate. All 3 species have similar leaf habit and large exaggerated lobed leaves. Often handful of species that you"ll see all the time along road sides, abandoned agricultural areas, open habitats (10-20 spp) Adapted (physiology, morphology) so allow them to establish in disturbed habitats. In later successional forests, might find hundreds of tree species that are late- successional species. Depend on finding places to germinate under closed canopy. Late successional seeds will be dispersed then die. Photosynthetic rate as function of light level.
