Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 355 |
| Pages (from-to) | article no. 355 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Communications Biology |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 3 Mar 2025 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Mar 2025 |
Keywords
- Aboveground biomass
- Allometric models
- Aluminum accumulation
- Climate surfaces
- Dicymbe-corymbosa caesalpiniaceae
- Habitat specialization
- Seed size
- Species-richness
- Tropical rain-forests
- Wood density
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In: Communications Biology, Vol. 8, No. 1, 355, 03.03.2025, p. article no. 355.
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T1 - Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests
AU - ter Steege, Hans
AU - Poorter, Lourens
AU - Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús
AU - Fortunel, Claire
AU - Magnusson, William
AU - Phillips, Oliver
AU - Pos, Edwin
AU - Luize, Bruno Garcia
AU - Baraloto, Chris
AU - Guevara, Juan Ernesto
AU - Endara, María-José
AU - Baker, Tim
AU - Umaña, Maria Natalia
AU - van der Sande, Masha
AU - Pombo, Maihyra Marina
AU - McGlone, Matt
AU - Draper, Freddie
AU - do Amaral, Iêda Leão
AU - Coelho, Luiz de Souza
AU - Wittmann, Florian
AU - Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia de
AU - Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade
AU - Salomão, Rafael
AU - Castilho, Carolina
AU - Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga
AU - Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez
AU - Sabatier, Daniel
AU - Molino, Jean-François
AU - Demarchi, Layon
AU - Cardenas Revilla, Juan David
AU - Schöngart, Jochen
AU - Irume, Mariana Victória
AU - Martins, Maria Pires
AU - da Silva Guimarães, José Renan
AU - Ramos, José Ferreira
AU - Bánki, Olaf S.
AU - Quaresma, Adriano Costa
AU - Pitman, Nigel
AU - Peres, Carlos
AU - de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos
AU - Hawes, Joseph
AU - Almeida, Everton José
AU - Barbosa, Luciane Ferreira
AU - Cavalheiro, Larissa
AU - Santos, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos
AU - Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de
AU - Vargas, Percy Núñez
AU - Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire
AU - Venticinque, Eduardo Martins
AU - Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto
AU - Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa
AU - Terborgh, John
AU - Casula, Katia Regina
AU - Honorio Coronado, Euridice
AU - Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel
AU - Carlos Montero, Juan
AU - De Souza, Cintia Rodrigues
AU - Oliveira, Marcus Vinicio Neves de
AU - Costa, Flávia
AU - Engel, Julien
AU - Feldpausch, Ted
AU - Castaño Arboleda, Nicolás
AU - Durgante, Flávia Machado
AU - Zartman, Charles Eugene
AU - Killeen, Timothy
AU - Marimon, Beatriz
AU - Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur
AU - Vasquez, Rodolfo
AU - Mostacedo, Bonifacio
AU - Assis, Rafael
AU - Amaral, Dário Dantas do
AU - Castellanos, Hernán
AU - Householder, John Ethan
AU - de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante
AU - Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni
AU - Andrade, Ana
AU - Camargo, José Luís
AU - Laurance, Susan
AU - Laurance, William
AU - Rincón, Lorena Maniguaje
AU - Mori, Gisele Biem
AU - Schietti, Juliana
AU - Sousa, Thaiane
AU - de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle
AU - Lopes, Maria Aparecida
AU - Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima
AU - Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça
AU - de Queiroz, Helder Lima
AU - Vasconcelos, Caroline
AU - Aymard C, Gerardo
AU - Brienen, Roel
AU - Sousa Assis, Pâmella Leite de
AU - Gris, Darlene
AU - Ribeiro, Karoline Aparecida Felix
AU - Stevenson, Pablo
AU - Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
AU - Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat
AU - Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira
AU - Mogollón, Hugo
AU - Silman, Miles
AU - Ferreira, Leandro Valle
AU - Lozada, José Rafael
AU - Comiskey, James
AU - de Toledo, José Julio
AU - Damasco, Gabriel
AU - García-Villacorta, Roosevelt
AU - Lopes, Aline
AU - Rios Paredes, Marcos
AU - Vicentini, Alberto
AU - Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
AU - Cornejo Valverde, Fernando
AU - Alonso, Alfonso
AU - Arroyo, Luzmila
AU - Dallmeier, Francisco
AU - Gomes, Vitor
AU - Huari, William Nauray
AU - Neill, David
AU - Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina
AU - de Aguiar, Daniel
AU - Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues
AU - Bredin, Yennie
AU - de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen
AU - Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes
AU - de Souza, Fernanda Coelho
AU - Feeley, Kenneth
AU - Gribel, Rogerio
AU - Haugaasen, Torbjørn
AU - Noronha, Janaína Costa
AU - Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti
AU - Pipoly, John
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Berenguer, Erika
AU - Silva, Izaias Brasil da
AU - Ferreira, Joice
AU - Ferreira, Maria Julia
AU - Fine, Paul
AU - Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro
AU - Levis, Carolina
AU - Carlos Licona, Juan
AU - Zegarra, Boris Eduardo Villa
AU - Vos, Vincent Antoine
AU - Cerón, Carlos
AU - Fonty, Émile
AU - Henkel, Terry
AU - Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau
AU - Silveira, Marcos
AU - Stropp, Juliana
AU - Thomas, Raquel
AU - Daly, Doug
AU - Dexter, Kyle
AU - Milliken, William
AU - Molina, Guido Pardo
AU - Pennington, Toby
AU - Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss
AU - Campelo, Wegliane
AU - Claros, Alfredo Fuentes
AU - Klitgaard, Bente
AU - Pena, José Luis Marcelo
AU - Montenegro, Luis Torres
AU - Tello, J. Sebastián
AU - Vriesendorp, Corine
AU - Chave, Jerome
AU - Di Fiore, Anthony
AU - Hilário, Renato Richard
AU - de Oliveira Pereira, Luciana
AU - Phillips, Juan Fernando
AU - Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo
AU - van Andel, Tinde
AU - Hildebrand, Patricio von
AU - Balee, William
AU - Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques
AU - Bonates, Luiz Carlos de Matos
AU - Dávila Doza, Hilda Paulette
AU - Zárate Gómez, Ricardo
AU - Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo
AU - Gonzales, Therany
AU - Hoffman, Bruce
AU - Junqueira, André Braga
AU - Malhi, Yadvinder
AU - Miranda, Ires Paula de Andrade
AU - Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite
AU - Prieto, Adriana
AU - Rudas, Agustín
AU - Ruschel, Ademir
AU - Silva, Natalino
AU - Vela, César
AU - Zent, Egleé
AU - Zent, Stanford
AU - Cano, Angela
AU - Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina
AU - Correa, Diego
AU - Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa
AU - Flores, Bernardo Monteiro
AU - Galbraith, David
AU - Holmgren, Milena
AU - Kalamandeen, Michelle
AU - Lobo, Guilherme
AU - Mori Vargas, Tony
AU - Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade
AU - Oliveira, Alexandre
AU - Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma
AU - Rocha, Maira
AU - Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
AU - Heijden, Geertje van der
AU - Torre, Emilio Vilanova
AU - Baider, Cláudia
AU - Balslev, Henrik
AU - Cárdenas, Sasha
AU - Casas, Luisa Fernanda
AU - Farfan-Rios, William
AU - Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo
AU - Mendoza, Casimiro
AU - Mesones, Italo
AU - Parada, Germaine Alexander
AU - Torres-Lezama, Armando
AU - Villarroel, Daniel
AU - Zagt, Roderick
AU - Alexiades, Miguel
AU - de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida
AU - Fortier, Riley
AU - Garcia-Cabrera, Karina
AU - Hernandez, Lionel
AU - Cuenca, Walter Palacios
AU - Pansini, Susamar
AU - Pauletto, Daniela
AU - Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez
AU - Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe
AU - Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis
AU - Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela
AU - Levesley, Aurora
AU - Pickavance, Georgia
N1 - Joseph E. Hawes, Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation, University of Cumbria, UK. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material.
PY - 2025/3/3
Y1 - 2025/3/3
N2 - Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a leaf economics spectrum reflecting slow to fast returns on investments in leaf nutrients and carbon. When species assemble to communities it is assumed that these spectra are filtered by the environment to produce community level functional composition. It is unknown what are the main drivers for community functional composition in a large area such as Amazonia. We use 13 functional traits, including wood density, seed mass, leaf characteristics, breeding system, nectar production, fruit type, and root characteristics of 812 tree genera (5211 species), and find that they describe two main axes found at the global scale. At community level, the first axis captures not only the ‘fast-slow spectrum’, but also most size-related traits. Climate and disturbance explain a minor part of this variance compared to soil fertility. Forests on poor soils differ largely in terms of trait values from those on rich soils. Trait composition and soil fertility exert a strong influence on forest functioning: biomass and relative biomass production.
AB - Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a leaf economics spectrum reflecting slow to fast returns on investments in leaf nutrients and carbon. When species assemble to communities it is assumed that these spectra are filtered by the environment to produce community level functional composition. It is unknown what are the main drivers for community functional composition in a large area such as Amazonia. We use 13 functional traits, including wood density, seed mass, leaf characteristics, breeding system, nectar production, fruit type, and root characteristics of 812 tree genera (5211 species), and find that they describe two main axes found at the global scale. At community level, the first axis captures not only the ‘fast-slow spectrum’, but also most size-related traits. Climate and disturbance explain a minor part of this variance compared to soil fertility. Forests on poor soils differ largely in terms of trait values from those on rich soils. Trait composition and soil fertility exert a strong influence on forest functioning: biomass and relative biomass production.
KW - Aboveground biomass
KW - Allometric models
KW - Aluminum accumulation
KW - Climate surfaces
KW - Dicymbe-corymbosa caesalpiniaceae
KW - Habitat specialization
KW - Seed size
KW - Species-richness
KW - Tropical rain-forests
KW - Wood density
U2 - 10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8
DO - 10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8
M3 - Journal Article
SN - 2399-3642
VL - 8
SP - article no. 355
JO - Communications Biology
JF - Communications Biology
IS - 1
M1 - 355
ER -