Open science + data

Feel free to play around with the data or models. Issues or questions can be discussed on each of the GitHub Issue pages.

Lai et al. (2024): tree competition and diameter growth along broad environmental gradients

Lai et al. (2022): tree competition and diameter growth

Falster et al. (2021): AusTraits — a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

Lai, Craven, et al. (2021): trait–environment dependent sapling demography using boral

Lai, Tan, et al. (2021): novelforestSG—diversity, abiotic factors and brms model

Lai et al. (2020): fourth-corner joint species distribution model using boral

Song et al. (2020): allometree—an R package for urban tree size allometry

References

Falster, A. D., Gallagher, R., Wenk, E., Wright, I., Indiarto, D., Andrew, S. C., Lawson, J., Allen, S., Fuchs, A., Adams, M. A., Collin, W., Alfonzetti, M., Angevin, T., Atkin, O. K., Auld, T., Baker, A., Buckton, G., Burrows, G., Caldwell, E., … Kasia Ziemińska. (2021). AusTraits – a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Nature Scientific Data, 8(1), 254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6
Lai, H. R., Bellingham, P. J., McCarthy, J. K., Richardson, S. J., Wiser, S. K., & Stouffer, D. B. (2024). Detecting non-additive biotic interactions and assessing their biological relevance among temperate rainforest trees. The American Naturalist, 204(2). https://doi.org/10.1086/730807
Lai, H. R., Chong, K. Y., Yee, A. T. K., Mayfield, M. M., & Stouffer, D. B. (2022). Non-additive biotic interactions improve predictions of tropical tree growth and impact community size structure. Ecology, 103(2), e03588. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3588
Lai, H. R., Chong, K. Y., Yee, A. T. K., Tan, H. T. W., & Breugel, M. van. (2020). Functional traits that moderate tropical tree recruitment during post-windstorm secondary succession. Journal of Ecology, 108(4), 1322–1333. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13347
Lai, H. R., Craven, D., Hall, J. S., Hui, F. K. C., & Breugel, M. van. (2021). Successional syndromes of saplings in tropical secondary forests emerge from environment-dependent trait–demography relationships. Ecology Letters, 24(9), 1776–1787. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13784
Lai, H. R., Tan, G. S. Y., Neo, L., Kee, C. Y., Yee, A. T. K., Tan, H. T. W., & Chong, K. Y. (2021). Decoupled responses of native and exotic tree diversities to distance from old-growth forest and soil phosphorus in novel secondary forests. Applied Vegetation Science, 24(1), e12548. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12548
Song, X. P., Lai, H. R., Wijedasa, L. S., Tan, P. Y., Edwards, P. J., & Richards, D. R. (2020). Height-diameter allometry for the management of city trees in the tropics. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), 114017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbbad