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Journé V, Andrus R, Aravena MC, Ascoli D, Berretti R, Berveiller D, Bogdziewicz M, Boivin T, Bonal R, Caignard T, Calama R, Camarero JJ, Chang-Yang CH, Courbaud B, Courbet F, Curt T, Das AJ, Daskalakou E, Davi H, Delpierre N, Delzon S, Dietze M, Donoso Calderon S, Dormont L, Maria Espelta J, Fahey TJ, Farfan-Rios W, Gehring CA, Gilbert GS, Gratzer G, Greenberg CH, Guo Q, Hacket-Pain A, Hampe A, Han Q, Lambers JHR, Hoshizaki K, Ibanez I, Johnstone JF, Kabeya D, Kays R, Kitzberger T, Knops JMH, Kobe RK, Kunstler G, Lageard JGA, LaMontagne JM, Leininger T, Limousin JM, Lutz JA, Macias D, McIntire EJB, Moore CM, Moran E, Motta R, Myers JA, Nagel TA, Noguchi K, Ourcival JM, Parmenter R, Pearse IS, Perez-Ramos IM, Piechnik L, Poulsen J, Poulton-Kamakura R, Qiu T, Redmond MD, Reid CD, Rodman KC, Rodriguez-Sanchez F, Sanguinetti JD, Scher CL, Marle HSV, Seget B, Sharma S, Silman M, Steele MA, Stephenson NL, Straub JN, Swenson JJ, Swift M, Thomas PA, Uriarte M, Vacchiano G, Veblen TT, Whipple AV, Whitham TG, Wright B, Wright SJ, Zhu K, Zimmerman JK, Zlotin R, Zywiec M, Clark JS. Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecol Lett 2022; 25:1471-1482. [PMID: 35460530 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in forest regeneration and biotic interactions responsible for biodiversity. A global synthesis of raw seedproduction data shows a 250-fold increase in seed abundance from cold-dry to warm-wet climates, driven primarily by a 100-fold increase in seed production for a given tree size. The modest (threefold) increase in forest productivity across the same climate gradient cannot explain the magnitudes of these trends. The increase in seeds per tree can arise from adaptive evolution driven by intense species interactions or from the direct effects of a warm, moist climate on tree fecundity. Either way, the massive differences in seed supply ramify through food webs potentially explaining a disproportionate role for species interactions in the wet tropics.
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Affiliation(s)
- Valentin Journé
- Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire EcoSystemes et Societes En Montagne (LESSEM), St. Martin-d'Heres, France
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- Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
| | - Marie-Claire Aravena
- Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (FCFCN), Santiago, Chile
| | - Davide Ascoli
- Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Grugliasco, TO, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Grugliasco, TO, Italy
| | - Daniel Berveiller
- Universite Paris-Saclay, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systematique et Evolution, Orsay, France
| | - Michal Bogdziewicz
- Department of Systematic Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
| | - Thomas Boivin
- Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Ecologie des Forets Mediterranennes, Avignon, France
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- Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Universite Bordeaux, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Biodiversity, Genes, and Communities (BIOGECO), Pessac, France
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- Centro de Investigacion Forestal (INIA-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire EcoSystemes et Societes En Montagne (LESSEM), St. Martin-d'Heres, France
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- Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Ecologie des Forets Mediterranennes, Avignon, France
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- Aix Marseille universite, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (IN-RAE), Aix-en-Provence, France
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- USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Three Rivers, California, USA
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- Institute of Mediterranean and Forest Ecosystems, HellenicAgricultural Organization ¨ DEMETER¨, Athens, Greece
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- Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Ecologie des Forets Mediterranennes, Avignon, France
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- Universite Paris-Saclay, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systematique et Evolution, Orsay, France
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- Universite Bordeaux, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Biodiversity, Genes, and Communities (BIOGECO), Pessac, France
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- Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Sergio Donoso Calderon
- Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (FCFCN), Santiago, Chile
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain
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- Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Adaptive Western Landscapes, University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and Institute of Forest Ecology, Wien, Austria
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- Bent Creek Experimental Forest, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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- Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Universite Bordeaux, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Biodiversity, Genes, and Communities (BIOGECO), Pessac, France
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- Department of Plant Ecology Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan
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- School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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- Department of Plant Ecology Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas - Universidad Nacional del Comahue), Bariloche, Argentina
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- Health and Environmental Sciences Department, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Plant Biology, Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire EcoSystemes et Societes En Montagne (LESSEM), St. Martin-d'Heres, France
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- USDA, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA
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- Department of Wildland Resources, and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, California, USA
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- Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Grugliasco, TO, Italy
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of forestry and renewable forest resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
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- Valles Caldera National Preserve, National Park Service, Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA
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- Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Inst. de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IRNAS-CSIC), Seville, Andalucia, Spain
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Bilogo Dpto. Conservacin y Manejo Parque Nacional Lanin Elordi y Perito Moreno 8370, San Marten de los Andes, Argentina
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (FCFCN), Santiago, Chile
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biology, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Ecology, State University of New York-Brockport, Brockport, New York, USA
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Territory, Agroenergy (DISAA), University of Milan, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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- Botany, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, USA
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- Geography Department and Russian and East European Institute, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire EcoSystemes et Societes En Montagne (LESSEM), St. Martin-d'Heres, France.,Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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