Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest

Autores
Cavagna, Andrea; Fort, Hugo; Grigera, Tomás Sebastián
Año de publicación
2023
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We analyse population dynamics in Barro Colorado Island (Panama) using census data of a 50 ha forest plot spanning 35 years, and address the question whether this community is in a stationary state. Individual species abundances show large fluctuations, but assessing stationariety requires discriminating random fluctuations from actual trends. This requires evaluating mean quantities as well as the structure (i.e. the correlations) of the fluctuations around this mean. We argue that a species average is the best surrogate for the theoretically required but unfeasible history average. We define the overlap, a species-averaged measure of composition similarity, which reveals that the BCI population dynamics is stationary but not static, displaying fluctuations with a characteristic time of around 15 years, two orders of magnitude less than previously estimated.
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Física
Ecología
Rainforest
Ecosystem dynamics
Fluctuations
Time correlations
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
title Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
spellingShingle Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
Cavagna, Andrea
Física
Ecología
Rainforest
Ecosystem dynamics
Fluctuations
Time correlations
title_short Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
title_full Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
title_fullStr Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
title_full_unstemmed Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
title_sort Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cavagna, Andrea
Fort, Hugo
Grigera, Tomás Sebastián
author Cavagna, Andrea
author_facet Cavagna, Andrea
Fort, Hugo
Grigera, Tomás Sebastián
author_role author
author2 Fort, Hugo
Grigera, Tomás Sebastián
author2_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Física
Ecología
Rainforest
Ecosystem dynamics
Fluctuations
Time correlations
topic Física
Ecología
Rainforest
Ecosystem dynamics
Fluctuations
Time correlations
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We analyse population dynamics in Barro Colorado Island (Panama) using census data of a 50 ha forest plot spanning 35 years, and address the question whether this community is in a stationary state. Individual species abundances show large fluctuations, but assessing stationariety requires discriminating random fluctuations from actual trends. This requires evaluating mean quantities as well as the structure (i.e. the correlations) of the fluctuations around this mean. We argue that a species average is the best surrogate for the theoretically required but unfeasible history average. We define the overlap, a species-averaged measure of composition similarity, which reveals that the BCI population dynamics is stationary but not static, displaying fluctuations with a characteristic time of around 15 years, two orders of magnitude less than previously estimated.
Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos
description We analyse population dynamics in Barro Colorado Island (Panama) using census data of a 50 ha forest plot spanning 35 years, and address the question whether this community is in a stationary state. Individual species abundances show large fluctuations, but assessing stationariety requires discriminating random fluctuations from actual trends. This requires evaluating mean quantities as well as the structure (i.e. the correlations) of the fluctuations around this mean. We argue that a species average is the best surrogate for the theoretically required but unfeasible history average. We define the overlap, a species-averaged measure of composition similarity, which reveals that the BCI population dynamics is stationary but not static, displaying fluctuations with a characteristic time of around 15 years, two orders of magnitude less than previously estimated.
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