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Matas‐Granados L, Draper FC, Cayuela L, de Aledo JG, Arellano G, Saadi CB, Baker TR, Phillips OL, Honorio Coronado EN, Ruokolainen K, García‐Villacorta R, Roucoux KH, Guèze M, Sandoval EV, Fine PVA, Amasifuen Guerra CA, Gomez RZ, Stevenson Diaz PR, Monteagudo‐Mendoza A, Martinez RV, Socolar JB, Disney M, del Aguila Pasquel J, Llampazo GF, Arenas JV, Huaymacari JR, Grandez Rios JM, Macía MJ. Understanding different dominance patterns in western Amazonian forests. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14351. [PMID: 38111128 PMCID: PMC10952671 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
Abstract
Dominance of neotropical tree communities by a few species is widely documented, but dominant trees show a variety of distributional patterns still poorly understood. Here, we used 503 forest inventory plots (93,719 individuals ≥2.5 cm diameter, 2609 species) to explore the relationships between local abundance, regional frequency and spatial aggregation of dominant species in four main habitat types in western Amazonia. Although the abundance-occupancy relationship is positive for the full dataset, we found that among dominant Amazonian tree species, there is a strong negative relationship between local abundance and regional frequency and/or spatial aggregation across habitat types. Our findings suggest an ecological trade-off whereby dominant species can be locally abundant (local dominants) or regionally widespread (widespread dominants), but rarely both (oligarchs). Given the importance of dominant species as drivers of diversity and ecosystem functioning, unravelling different dominance patterns is a research priority to direct conservation efforts in Amazonian forests.
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Affiliation(s)
- Laura Matas‐Granados
- Departamento de Biología, Área de BotánicaUniversidad Autónoma de MadridMadridSpain
- Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC‐UAM)Universidad Autónoma de MadridMadridSpain
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- School of Geography and PlanningUniversity of LiverpoolLiverpoolUK
- School of GeographyUniversity of LeedsLeedsUK
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química InorgánicaUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos, MóstolesMadridSpain
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- Departamento de Biología, Área de BotánicaUniversidad Autónoma de MadridMadridSpain
- Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC‐UAM)Universidad Autónoma de MadridMadridSpain
- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química InorgánicaUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos, MóstolesMadridSpain
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- Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMichiganUSA
- Oikobit LLC, www.oikobit.comAlbuquerqueNew MexicoUSA
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- Departamento de Biología, Área de BotánicaUniversidad Autónoma de MadridMadridSpain
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- Programa Restauración de Ecosistemas (PRE)Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA)Puerto MaldonadoTambopata, Madre de DiosPeru
- Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCBC)IquitosLoretoPeru
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- School of Geography & Sustainable DevelopmentUniversity of St AndrewsSt AndrewsUK
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- Department of Integrative BiologyUniversity of California BerkeleyBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias AgrariasUniversidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM)ChachapoyasPeru
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- Department of GeographyUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía PeruanaIquitosPeru
- Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia PeruanaIquitosPeru
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- Facultad de Ciencias BiológicasUniversidad Nacional de la Amazonía PeruanaIquitosPeru
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- Departamento de Biología, Área de BotánicaUniversidad Autónoma de MadridMadridSpain
- Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC‐UAM)Universidad Autónoma de MadridMadridSpain
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Draper FC, Asner GP, Honorio Coronado EN, Baker TR, García-Villacorta R, Pitman NCA, Fine PVA, Phillips OL, Zárate Gómez R, Amasifuén Guerra CA, Flores Arévalo M, Vásquez Martínez R, Brienen RJW, Monteagudo-Mendoza A, Torres Montenegro LA, Valderrama Sandoval E, Roucoux KH, Ramírez Arévalo FR, Mesones Acuy Í, Del Aguila Pasquel J, Tagle Casapia X, Flores Llampazo G, Corrales Medina M, Reyna Huaymacari J, Baraloto C. Dominant tree species drive beta diversity patterns in western Amazonia. Ecology 2019; 100:e02636. [PMID: 30693479 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
The forests of western Amazonia are among the most diverse tree communities on Earth, yet this exceptional diversity is distributed highly unevenly within and among communities. In particular, a small number of dominant species account for the majority of individuals, whereas the large majority of species are locally and regionally extremely scarce. By definition, dominant species contribute little to local species richness (alpha diversity), yet the importance of dominant species in structuring patterns of spatial floristic turnover (beta diversity) has not been investigated. Here, using a network of 207 forest inventory plots, we explore the role of dominant species in determining regional patterns of beta diversity (community-level floristic turnover and distance-decay relationships) across a range of habitat types in northern lowland Peru. Of the 2,031 recorded species in our data set, only 99 of them accounted for 50% of individuals. Using these 99 species, it was possible to reconstruct the overall features of regional beta diversity patterns, including the location and dispersion of habitat types in multivariate space, and distance-decay relationships. In fact, our analysis demonstrated that regional patterns of beta diversity were better maintained by the 99 dominant species than by the 1,932 others, whether quantified using species-abundance data or species presence-absence data. Our results reveal that dominant species are normally common only in a single forest type. Therefore, dominant species play a key role in structuring western Amazonian tree communities, which in turn has important implications, both practically for designing effective protected areas, and more generally for understanding the determinants of beta diversity patterns.
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- Frederick C Draper
- Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, 975 S. Myrtle Ave Tempe, Arizona, 85281, USA.,Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California, 94305, USA.,International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, 4013 South Douglas Road, Miami, Florida, 33133, USA
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- Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, 975 S. Myrtle Ave Tempe, Arizona, 85281, USA.,Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California, 94305, USA
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, E145 Corson Hall, Ithaca, New york, 14853, USA
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- Keller Science Action Center, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, Illinois, 60605, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 Berkeley, California, 94720, USA
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Av. Quiñones 0784, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Sargento Lores 385, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Sargento Lores 385, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Jardín Botanico de Missouri, Prolongación Bolognesi Lote 6, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru.,Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Av. de La Cultura 773, Cusco, 08000, Peru
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Sargento Lores 385, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Sargento Lores 385, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews, North Street, St. Andrews, KY16 9AL, United Kingdom
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- Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Sargento Lores 385, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140 Berkeley, California, 94720, USA
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Av. Quiñones 0784, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru.,School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan, 49931, USA
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Av. Quiñones 0784, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Sargento Lores 385, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, 4013 South Douglas Road, Miami, Florida, 33133, USA
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ter Steege H, Pitman NCA, Sabatier D, Baraloto C, Salomão RP, Guevara JE, Phillips OL, Castilho CV, Magnusson WE, Molino JF, Monteagudo A, Núñez Vargas P, Montero JC, Feldpausch TR, Coronado ENH, Killeen TJ, Mostacedo B, Vasquez R, Assis RL, Terborgh J, Wittmann F, Andrade A, Laurance WF, Laurance SGW, Marimon BS, Marimon BH, Guimarães Vieira IC, Amaral IL, Brienen R, Castellanos H, Cárdenas López D, Duivenvoorden JF, Mogollón HF, Matos FDDA, Dávila N, García-Villacorta R, Stevenson Diaz PR, Costa F, Emilio T, Levis C, Schietti J, Souza P, Alonso A, Dallmeier F, Montoya AJD, Fernandez Piedade MT, Araujo-Murakami A, Arroyo L, Gribel R, Fine PVA, Peres CA, Toledo M, Aymard C GA, Baker TR, Cerón C, Engel J, Henkel TW, Maas P, Petronelli P, Stropp J, Zartman CE, Daly D, Neill D, Silveira M, Paredes MR, Chave J, Lima Filho DDA, Jørgensen PM, Fuentes A, Schöngart J, Cornejo Valverde F, Di Fiore A, Jimenez EM, Peñuela Mora MC, Phillips JF, Rivas G, van Andel TR, von Hildebrand P, Hoffman B, Zent EL, Malhi Y, Prieto A, Rudas A, Ruschell AR, Silva N, Vos V, Zent S, Oliveira AA, Schutz AC, Gonzales T, Trindade Nascimento M, Ramirez-Angulo H, Sierra R, Tirado M, Umaña Medina MN, van der Heijden G, Vela CIA, Vilanova Torre E, Vriesendorp C, Wang O, Young KR, Baider C, Balslev H, Ferreira C, Mesones I, Torres-Lezama A, Urrego Giraldo LE, Zagt R, Alexiades MN, Hernandez L, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco I, Milliken W, Palacios Cuenca W, Pauletto D, Valderrama Sandoval E, Valenzuela Gamarra L, Dexter KG, Feeley K, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Silman MR. Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora. Science 2013; 342:1243092. [PMID: 24136971 DOI: 10.1126/science.1243092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 391] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
The vast extent of the Amazon Basin has historically restricted the study of its tree communities to the local and regional scales. Here, we provide empirical data on the commonness, rarity, and richness of lowland tree species across the entire Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), collected in 1170 tree plots in all major forest types. Extrapolations suggest that Amazonia harbors roughly 16,000 tree species, of which just 227 (1.4%) account for half of all trees. Most of these are habitat specialists and only dominant in one or two regions of the basin. We discuss some implications of the finding that a small group of species--less diverse than the North American tree flora--accounts for half of the world's most diverse tree community.
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