This book introduces the ecology of the high-altitude tropical cloud forests on Hainan Island in China. The findings are novel and reveal environmental characteristics, community features, diversity patterns, plant strategies, community assembly mechanisms, and diversity-ecosystem functions of tropical cloud forests in China. This book will bridge the gaps in our understanding of tropical forests and enrich the theory of tropical forest community ecology. Written by experts in the field, this book will serve as an invaluable reference for tropical forest ecology researchers.
Chapter 1. Environmental Characteristics in Tropical Cloud Forests
Chapter 2. Community structure and species diversity in tropical cloud forests
Chapter 3. Variation in plant diversity in three tropical cloud forests in Hainan Island
Chapter 4. Functional trait variation on community organization scale and systematic classification level of tropical cloud forests on Hainan Island, China
Chapter 5. Exploring the scale-dependence of functional trait relationship
Chapter 6. The non-random assembly of tropical cloud forest community based on two functional traits
Chapter 7. Changes in species co-occurrence patterns with increasing environmental stress across two types of tropical cloud forest
Chapter 8. Intraspecific trait variation promoting plant community assemblage in a tropical cloud forest
Chapter 9. Effects of species pool size and spatial scale variation on tropical cloud forest community assembly
Chapter 10. Distribution patterns of aboveground biomass of tropical cloud forests in Hainan Island
Chapter 11. Relationships between plant diversity and above-ground biomass correlated with soil phosphorus stresses in a tropical cloud forest
Dr Wenxing Long is a professor at the College of Forestry, Hainan University, China.