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Charles D. Canham
Researcher at Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Publications - 146
Citations - 20704
Charles D. Canham is an academic researcher from Institute of Ecosystem Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forest dynamics & Understory. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 146 publications receiving 19484 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles D. Canham include Princeton University & New York Botanical Garden.
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Forest models defined by field measurements : Estimation, error analysis and dynamics
Stephen W. Pacala,Charles D. Canham,John Saponara,John A. Silander,Richard K. Kobe,Eric Ribbens +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a spatial and mechanistic model is developed for the dynamics of transition oak-northern hardwoods forests in northeastern North America to extrapolate from measurable fine-scale and short-term interactions among individual trees to large scale and long-term dynamics of forest communities.
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Light regimes beneath closed canopies and tree-fall gaps in temperate and tropical forests
Charles D. Canham,Julie S. Denslow,William J. Platt,James R. Runkle,Thomas A. Spies,Peter S. White +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared light regimes beneath closed canopies and tree-fall gaps for five temperate and tropical forests using fish-eye photography of intact forest canopie and a model for calculating light penetration through idealized gaps.
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Juvenile Tree Survivorship as a Component of Shade Tolerance
TL;DR: The results indicate that interspecific differences in sapling mortality are critical components of forest community dynamics and the importance of these effects is demonstrated through a spatially explicit simulator of forest dynamics (SORTIE).
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Causes and consequences of resource heterogeneity in forests : interspecific variation in light transmission by canopy trees
TL;DR: The light transmission characteristics of the nine deciduous and coniferous species that dominate the transition oak–northern hardwood forests of southern New England are analyzed.
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Reconciling niche and neutrality: the continuum hypothesis
TL;DR: Results demonstrate that niche and neutrality form ends of a continuum from competitive to stochastic exclusion, and whether the relative importance of niche vs. neutral processes in controlling community dynamics will vary depending on community species richness, niche overlap and dispersal capabilities of species.