Presented By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Why so many “slow” species? Rethinking trade-offs in tropical forests
María Natalia Umaña, University of Michigan
Seminar Summary - In this talk, I examine how functional constraints shape ecological strategies and ultimately the diversity of tropical forests. I show that the classic trade-off frameworks that organize much of ecological thinking are more flexible than often assumed: constraints can vary across scales, traits can provide redundant solutions to the same functional challenge, and key functional axes can become decoupled. Together, these patterns suggest that biodiversity may emerge from the interaction of multiple, partially independent dimensions of organismal function.
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