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Esquivel-Muelbert A, Phillips OL, Brienen RJW, Fauset S, Sullivan MJP, Baker TR, Chao KJ, Feldpausch TR, Gloor E, Higuchi N, Houwing-Duistermaat J, Lloyd J, Liu H, Malhi Y, Marimon B, Marimon Junior BH, Monteagudo-Mendoza A, Poorter L, Silveira M, Torre EV, Dávila EA, Del Aguila Pasquel J, Almeida E, Loayza PA, Andrade A, Aragão LEOC, Araujo-Murakami A, Arets E, Arroyo L, Aymard C GA, Baisie M, Baraloto C, Camargo PB, Barroso J, Blanc L, Bonal D, Bongers F, Boot R, Brown F, Burban B, Camargo JL, Castro W, Moscoso VC, Chave J, Comiskey J, Valverde FC, da Costa AL, Cardozo ND, Di Fiore A, Dourdain A, Erwin T, Llampazo GF, Vieira ICG, Herrera R, Honorio Coronado E, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco I, Jimenez-Rojas E, Killeen T, Laurance S, Laurance W, Levesley A, Lewis SL, Ladvocat KLLM, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Lovejoy T, Meir P, Mendoza C, Morandi P, Neill D, Nogueira Lima AJ, Vargas PN, de Oliveira EA, Camacho NP, Pardo G, Peacock J, Peña-Claros M, Peñuela-Mora MC, Pickavance G, Pipoly J, Pitman N, Prieto A, Pugh TAM, Quesada C, Ramirez-Angulo H, de Almeida Reis SM, Rejou-Machain M, Correa ZR, Bayona LR, Rudas A, Salomão R, Serrano J, Espejo JS, Silva N, Singh J, Stahl C, Stropp J, Swamy V, Talbot J, Ter Steege H, Terborgh J, Thomas R, Toledo M, Torres-Lezama A, Gamarra LV, van der Heijden G, van der Meer P, van der Hout P, Martinez RV, Vieira SA, Cayo JV, Vos V, Zagt R, Zuidema P, Galbraith D. Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests. Nat Commun 2021; 12:209. [PMID: 33397985 PMCID: PMC7782710 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20537-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert
- School of Geography, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. .,School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. .,Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
| | - Martin J P Sullivan
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
| | | | - Kuo-Jung Chao
- International Master Program of Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Ted R Feldpausch
- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | | | - Niro Higuchi
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
| | | | - Jon Lloyd
- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life, Imperial College London Sciences, London, UK
| | - Haiyan Liu
- School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
| | - Yadvinder Malhi
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Beatriz Marimon
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - Ben Hur Marimon Junior
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | | | - Lourens Poorter
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | - Marcos Silveira
- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
| | - Emilio Vilanova Torre
- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.,University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Esteban Alvarez Dávila
- Escuela de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Boyacá, Colombia.,Fundación ConVida, Medellín, Colombia
| | | | - Everton Almeida
- Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
| | - Patricia Alvarez Loayza
- Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, University in Durham, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Ana Andrade
- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Florestais, Manaus, AM, Brazil
| | - Luiz E O C Aragão
- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
| | - Alejandro Araujo-Murakami
- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
| | - Eric Arets
- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | - Luzmila Arroyo
- Dirección de la Carrera de Biología, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
| | - Gerardo A Aymard C
- UNELLEZ-Guanare, Herbario Universitario (PORT), Portuguesa, Venezuela Compensation International Progress S.A. Ciprogress-Greenlife, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
| | - Michel Baisie
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - Christopher Baraloto
- Department of Biological Sciences, International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
| | | | - Jorcely Barroso
- Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus Floresta, Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil
| | - Lilian Blanc
- UR Forest & Societies, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
| | - Damien Bonal
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - Frans Bongers
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | - René Boot
- Department of Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - Benoit Burban
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - José Luís Camargo
- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Florestais, Manaus, AM, Brazil
| | - Wendeson Castro
- Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
| | | | - Jerome Chave
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversite Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse, France
| | - James Comiskey
- Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO, USA
| | | | - Antonio Lola da Costa
- Instituto de Geociências, Faculdade de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Para, Belém, Brazil
| | | | - Anthony Di Fiore
- Department of Anthropology and Primate Molecular Ecology and Evolution Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
| | - Aurélie Dourdain
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - Terry Erwin
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, USA
| | | | | | - Rafael Herrera
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela.,IIAMA, Universitat Politécnica de València, València, Spain
| | | | | | - Eliana Jimenez-Rojas
- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia
| | | | - Susan Laurance
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
| | - William Laurance
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
| | | | - Simon L Lewis
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
| | | | | | - Thomas Lovejoy
- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
| | - Patrick Meir
- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.,School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Casimiro Mendoza
- Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Unidad Académica del Trópico, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
| | - Paulo Morandi
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - David Neill
- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
| | | | | | - Edmar Almeida de Oliveira
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - Nadir Pallqui Camacho
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
| | - Guido Pardo
- Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Trinidad, Bolivia
| | | | - Marielos Peña-Claros
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | | | | | - John Pipoly
- Broward County Parks Recreation, Oakland Park, FL, USA
| | - Nigel Pitman
- Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Thomas A M Pugh
- School of Geography, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
| | - Carlos Quesada
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
| | - Hirma Ramirez-Angulo
- Institute of Research for Forestry Development (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
| | - Simone Matias de Almeida Reis
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - Maxime Rejou-Machain
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | | | - Lily Rodriguez Bayona
- Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales, CIMA Cordillera Azul, Lima, Peru
| | - Agustín Rudas
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Rafael Salomão
- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.,Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil
| | - Julio Serrano
- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
| | - Javier Silva Espejo
- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú.,Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
| | | | - James Singh
- Guyana Forestry Commission, Georgetown, Guyana
| | - Clement Stahl
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | | | - Varun Swamy
- Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA, USA
| | - Joey Talbot
- Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
| | - Hans Ter Steege
- Biodiversity Dynamics, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.,Systems Ecology, Free University, De Boelelaan 1087, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - John Terborgh
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
| | - Raquel Thomas
- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
| | - Marisol Toledo
- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
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- Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
| | | | | | - Simone Aparecida Vieira
- Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
| | | | - Vincent Vos
- Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Trinidad, Bolivia
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Esquivel-Muelbert A, Phillips OL, Brienen RJW, Fauset S, Sullivan MJP, Baker TR, Chao KJ, Feldpausch TR, Gloor E, Higuchi N, Houwing-Duistermaat J, Lloyd J, Liu H, Malhi Y, Marimon B, Marimon Junior BH, Monteagudo-Mendoza A, Poorter L, Silveira M, Torre EV, Dávila EA, Del Aguila Pasquel J, Almeida E, Loayza PA, Andrade A, Aragão LEOC, Araujo-Murakami A, Arets E, Arroyo L, Aymard C GA, Baisie M, Baraloto C, Camargo PB, Barroso J, Blanc L, Bonal D, Bongers F, Boot R, Brown F, Burban B, Camargo JL, Castro W, Moscoso VC, Chave J, Comiskey J, Valverde FC, da Costa AL, Cardozo ND, Di Fiore A, Dourdain A, Erwin T, Llampazo GF, Vieira ICG, Herrera R, Honorio Coronado E, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco I, Jimenez-Rojas E, Killeen T, Laurance S, Laurance W, Levesley A, Lewis SL, Ladvocat KLLM, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Lovejoy T, Meir P, Mendoza C, Morandi P, Neill D, Nogueira Lima AJ, Vargas PN, de Oliveira EA, Camacho NP, Pardo G, Peacock J, Peña-Claros M, Peñuela-Mora MC, Pickavance G, Pipoly J, Pitman N, Prieto A, Pugh TAM, Quesada C, Ramirez-Angulo H, de Almeida Reis SM, Rejou-Machain M, Correa ZR, Bayona LR, Rudas A, Salomão R, Serrano J, Espejo JS, Silva N, Singh J, Stahl C, Stropp J, Swamy V, Talbot J, Ter Steege H, Terborgh J, Thomas R, Toledo M, Torres-Lezama A, Gamarra LV, van der Heijden G, van der Meer P, van der Hout P, Martinez RV, Vieira SA, Cayo JV, Vos V, Zagt R, Zuidema P, Galbraith D. Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5515. [PMID: 33168823 PMCID: PMC7652827 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots. While tree mortality rates vary greatly Amazon-wide, on average trees are as likely to die standing as they are broken or uprooted-modes of death with different ecological consequences. Species-level growth rate is the single most important predictor of tree death in Amazonia, with faster-growing species being at higher risk. Within species, however, the slowest-growing trees are at greatest risk while the effect of tree size varies across the basin. In the driest Amazonian region species-level bioclimatic distributional patterns also predict the risk of death, suggesting that these forests are experiencing climatic conditions beyond their adaptative limits. These results provide not only a holistic pan-Amazonian picture of tree death but large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth-survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality.
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Affiliation(s)
- Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert
- School of Geography, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
- Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
| | | | | | - Sophie Fauset
- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
| | - Martin J P Sullivan
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
| | | | - Kuo-Jung Chao
- International Master Program of Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Ted R Feldpausch
- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | | | - Niro Higuchi
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
| | | | - Jon Lloyd
- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life, Imperial College London Sciences, London, UK
| | - Haiyan Liu
- School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
| | - Yadvinder Malhi
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Beatriz Marimon
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - Ben Hur Marimon Junior
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | | | - Lourens Poorter
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | - Marcos Silveira
- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
| | - Emilio Vilanova Torre
- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Esteban Alvarez Dávila
- Escuela de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Boyacá, Colombia
- Fundación ConVida, Medellín, Colombia
| | | | - Everton Almeida
- Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
| | - Patricia Alvarez Loayza
- Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, University in Durham, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Ana Andrade
- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Florestais, Manaus, AM, Brazil
| | - Luiz E O C Aragão
- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
| | - Alejandro Araujo-Murakami
- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
| | - Eric Arets
- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | - Luzmila Arroyo
- Dirección de la Carrera de Biología, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
| | - Gerardo A Aymard C
- UNELLEZ-Guanare, Herbario Universitario (PORT), Portuguesa, Venezuela Compensation International Progress S.A. Ciprogress-Greenlife, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
| | - Michel Baisie
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - Christopher Baraloto
- Department of Biological Sciences, International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
| | | | - Jorcely Barroso
- Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus Floresta, Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil
| | - Lilian Blanc
- UR Forest & Societies, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
| | - Damien Bonal
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - Frans Bongers
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | - René Boot
- Department of Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - Benoit Burban
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - José Luís Camargo
- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Florestais, Manaus, AM, Brazil
| | - Wendeson Castro
- Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
| | | | - Jerome Chave
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversite Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse, France
| | - James Comiskey
- Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO, USA
| | | | - Antonio Lola da Costa
- Instituto de Geociências, Faculdade de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Para, Belém, Brazil
| | | | - Anthony Di Fiore
- Department of Anthropology and Primate Molecular Ecology and Evolution Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
| | - Aurélie Dourdain
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | - Terry Erwin
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, USA
| | | | | | - Rafael Herrera
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
- IIAMA, Universitat Politécnica de València, València, Spain
| | | | | | - Eliana Jimenez-Rojas
- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia
| | | | - Susan Laurance
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
| | - William Laurance
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
| | | | - Simon L Lewis
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
| | | | | | - Thomas Lovejoy
- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
| | - Patrick Meir
- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Casimiro Mendoza
- Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Unidad Académica del Trópico, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
| | - Paulo Morandi
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - David Neill
- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
| | | | | | - Edmar Almeida de Oliveira
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - Nadir Pallqui Camacho
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
| | - Guido Pardo
- Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Trinidad, Bolivia
| | | | - Marielos Peña-Claros
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | | | | | - John Pipoly
- Broward County Parks Recreation, Oakland Park, FL, USA
| | - Nigel Pitman
- Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - Adriana Prieto
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Thomas A M Pugh
- School of Geography, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
| | - Carlos Quesada
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
| | - Hirma Ramirez-Angulo
- Institute of Research for Forestry Development (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
| | - Simone Matias de Almeida Reis
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
| | - Maxime Rejou-Machain
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | | | - Lily Rodriguez Bayona
- Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales, CIMA Cordillera Azul, Lima, Peru
| | - Agustín Rudas
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Rafael Salomão
- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
- Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil
| | - Julio Serrano
- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
| | - Javier Silva Espejo
- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
- Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
| | | | - James Singh
- Guyana Forestry Commission, Georgetown, Guyana
| | - Clement Stahl
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
| | | | - Varun Swamy
- Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA, USA
| | - Joey Talbot
- Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
| | - Hans Ter Steege
- Biodiversity Dynamics, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Systems Ecology, Free University, De Boelelaan 1087, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - John Terborgh
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
| | - Raquel Thomas
- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
| | - Marisol Toledo
- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
| | | | | | | | - Peter van der Meer
- Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
| | | | | | - Simone Aparecida Vieira
- Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
| | | | - Vincent Vos
- Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Trinidad, Bolivia
| | | | - Pieter Zuidema
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Coelho de Souza F, Dexter KG, Phillips OL, Pennington RT, Neves D, Sullivan MJP, Alvarez-Davila E, Alves Á, Amaral I, Andrade A, Aragao LEOC, Araujo-Murakami A, Arets EJMM, Arroyo L, Aymard C GA, Bánki O, Baraloto C, Barroso JG, Boot RGA, Brienen RJW, Brown F, Camargo JLC, Castro W, Chave J, Cogollo A, Comiskey JA, Cornejo-Valverde F, da Costa AL, de Camargo PB, Di Fiore A, Feldpausch TR, Galbraith DR, Gloor E, Goodman RC, Gilpin M, Herrera R, Higuchi N, Honorio Coronado EN, Jimenez-Rojas E, Killeen TJ, Laurance S, Laurance WF, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Lovejoy TE, Malhi Y, Marimon BS, Marimon-Junior BH, Mendoza C, Monteagudo-Mendoza A, Neill DA, Vargas PN, Peñuela Mora MC, Pickavance GC, Pipoly JJ, Pitman NCA, Poorter L, Prieto A, Ramirez F, Roopsind A, Rudas A, Salomão RP, Silva N, Silveira M, Singh J, Stropp J, Ter Steege H, Terborgh J, Thomas-Caesar R, Umetsu RK, Vasquez RV, Célia-Vieira I, Vieira SA, Vos VA, Zagt RJ, Baker TR. Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests. Nat Ecol Evol 2019; 3:1754-1761. [PMID: 31712699 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-1007-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Higher levels of taxonomic and evolutionary diversity are expected to maximize ecosystem function, yet their relative importance in driving variation in ecosystem function at large scales in diverse forests is unknown. Using 90 inventory plots across intact, lowland, terra firme, Amazonian forests and a new phylogeny including 526 angiosperm genera, we investigated the association between taxonomic and evolutionary metrics of diversity and two key measures of ecosystem function: aboveground wood productivity and biomass storage. While taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity were not important predictors of variation in biomass, both emerged as independent predictors of wood productivity. Amazon forests that contain greater evolutionary diversity and a higher proportion of rare species have higher productivity. While climatic and edaphic variables are together the strongest predictors of productivity, our results show that the evolutionary diversity of tree species in diverse forest stands also influences productivity. As our models accounted for wood density and tree size, they also suggest that additional, unstudied, evolutionarily correlated traits have significant effects on ecosystem function in tropical forests. Overall, our pan-Amazonian analysis shows that greater phylogenetic diversity translates into higher levels of ecosystem function: tropical forest communities with more distantly related taxa have greater wood productivity.
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- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Geography Department, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Botany, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Escuela de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Sede José Celestino Mutis, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Projeto TEAM-Manaus, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Projeto TEAM-Manaus, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragment Project, INPA and STRI, Manaus, Brazil
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- Geography Department, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.,National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- UNELLEZ-Guanare, Programa del Agro y del Mar, Herbario Universitario PORT, Mesa de Cavacas, Venezuela
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Tropenbos International, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragment Project, INPA and STRI, Manaus, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Jardín Botánico de Medellín Joaquín Antonio Uribe, Medellin, Colombia
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- National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.,Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Geography Department, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centro de Ecología, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela.,Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Univerity of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brasil
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Environmental Science and Policy Department, George Mason University, Washington DC, USA
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Unidad Académica del Trópico, Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Sacta, Bolivia
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- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
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- Broward County Parks and Recreation Division, Davie, FL, USA
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- Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
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- Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
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- Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil.,Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, Brasil
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- Museu Universitário, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Guyana Forestry Commission, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Institute of Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas Maceio, Maceio, Brazil
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.,Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,School of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado-Regional Norte Amazónico, Riberalta, Bolivia.,Universidad Autónoma del Beni, Riberalta, Bolivia
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Meir P, Mencuccini M, Binks O, da Costa AL, Ferreira L, Rowland L. Short-term effects of drought on tropical forest do not fully predict impacts of repeated or long-term drought: gas exchange versus growth. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2018; 373:20170311. [PMID: 30297468 PMCID: PMC6178433 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Are short-term responses by tropical rainforest to drought (e.g. during El Niño) sufficient to predict changes over the long-term, or from repeated drought? Using the world's only long-term (16-year) drought experiment in tropical forest we examine predictability from short-term measurements (1-2 years). Transpiration was maximized in droughted forest: it consumed all available throughfall throughout the 16 years of study. Leaf photosynthetic capacity [Formula: see text] was maintained, but only when averaged across tree size groups. Annual transpiration in droughted forest was less than in control, with initial reductions (at high biomass) imposed by foliar stomatal control. Tree mortality increased after year three, leading to an overall biomass loss of 40%; over the long-term, the main constraint on transpiration was thus imposed by the associated reduction in sapwood area. Altered tree mortality risk may prove predictable from soil and plant hydraulics, but additional monitoring is needed to test whether future biomass will stabilize or collapse. Allocation of assimilate differed over time: stem growth and reproductive output declined in the short-term, but following mortality-related changes in resource availability, both showed long-term resilience, with partial or full recovery. Understanding and simulation of these phenomena and related trade-offs in allocation will advance more effectively through greater use of optimization and probabilistic modelling approaches.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'The impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on the terrestrial tropical carbon cycle: patterns, mechanisms and implications'.
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- Patrick Meir
- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, UK
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- CREAF, Campus UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallés 08193, Spain
- ICREA, Barcelona 08193, Spain
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Instituto de Geosciências, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA 66075-110, Brazil
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK
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