Canopy openness in gaps determines the influence of herbaceous climbers and insect folivory on the survival of a tropical pioneer tree,Neoboutonia macrocalyxPax

Gaps created 10 years ago by clearing of conifer plantations in K ibale N ational P ark, U ganda, still experience very little tree regeneration. We studied the arrested succession by examining the survival of N eoboutonia macrocalyx P ax in different sized canopy gaps. We examined whether N eoboutonia seedlings can survive in gaps, which the tree rarely colonizes naturally and whether survival is limited by the size of the canopy opening,...