%0 Journal Article
%T Neighborhood Effects Explain Increasing Asynchronous Seedling Survival in a Subtropical Forest
%J The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - Wiley Online Library
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1601
%X In January and February 2008, a subtropical region of China experienced unusual snow and ice storms. Using seedling census data (2006¨C2014), we investigated the direct and indirect impacts of the 2008 winter storms and temporal climate variability on seedling demography in the Gutianshan 24©\ha subtropical forest dynamics plot. Local neighborhood interactions are highly susceptible to environmental fluctuations and play a stronger role in driving seedling demographic decoupling relative to the pure effects of climate and plant functional traits (43.9% vs. 22.2%), suggesting that divergent species responses to environmental change are driven primarily by indirect effects mediated by changing biotic environments. Photo credit: Yunquan Wang. Photo credit: Lei Chen. These photographs illustrate the article ¡°Neighborhood effects explain increasing asynchronous seedling survival in a subtropical forest¡± by L. Chen, Y. Q. Wang, X. C. Mi, X .J. Liu, H. B. Ren, J. H. Chen, K. P. Ma, and N. J. B. Kraft, published in Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2821
%U https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bes2.1601