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Tavares JV, Oliveira RS, Mencuccini M, Signori-Müller C, Pereira L, Diniz FC, Gilpin M, Marca Zevallos MJ, Salas Yupayccana CA, Acosta M, Pérez Mullisaca FM, Barros FDV, Bittencourt P, Jancoski H, Scalon MC, Marimon BS, Oliveras Menor I, Marimon BH, Fancourt M, Chambers-Ostler A, Esquivel-Muelbert A, Rowland L, Meir P, Lola da Costa AC, Nina A, Sanchez JMB, Tintaya JS, Chino RSC, Baca J, Fernandes L, Cumapa ERM, Santos JAR, Teixeira R, Tello L, Ugarteche MTM, Cuellar GA, Martinez F, Araujo-Murakami A, Almeida E, da Cruz WJA, Del Aguila Pasquel J, Aragāo L, Baker TR, de Camargo PB, Brienen R, Castro W, Ribeiro SC, Coelho de Souza F, Cosio EG, Davila Cardozo N, da Costa Silva R, Disney M, Espejo JS, Feldpausch TR, Ferreira L, Giacomin L, Higuchi N, Hirota M, Honorio E, Huaraca Huasco W, Lewis S, Flores Llampazo G, Malhi Y, Monteagudo Mendoza A, Morandi P, Chama Moscoso V, Muscarella R, Penha D, Rocha MC, Rodrigues G, Ruschel AR, Salinas N, Schlickmann M, Silveira M, Talbot J, Vásquez R, Vedovato L, Vieira SA, Phillips OL, Gloor E, Galbraith DR. Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests. Nature 2023; 617:111-117. [PMID: 37100901 PMCID: PMC10156596 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05971-3] [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: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
Abstract
Tropical forests face increasing climate risk1,2, yet our ability to predict their response to climate change is limited by poor understanding of their resistance to water stress. Although xylem embolism resistance thresholds (for example, [Formula: see text]50) and hydraulic safety margins (for example, HSM50) are important predictors of drought-induced mortality risk3-5, little is known about how these vary across Earth's largest tropical forest. Here, we present a pan-Amazon, fully standardized hydraulic traits dataset and use it to assess regional variation in drought sensitivity and hydraulic trait ability to predict species distributions and long-term forest biomass accumulation. Parameters [Formula: see text]50 and HSM50 vary markedly across the Amazon and are related to average long-term rainfall characteristics. Both [Formula: see text]50 and HSM50 influence the biogeographical distribution of Amazon tree species. However, HSM50 was the only significant predictor of observed decadal-scale changes in forest biomass. Old-growth forests with wide HSM50 are gaining more biomass than are low HSM50 forests. We propose that this may be associated with a growth-mortality trade-off whereby trees in forests consisting of fast-growing species take greater hydraulic risks and face greater mortality risk. Moreover, in regions of more pronounced climatic change, we find evidence that forests are losing biomass, suggesting that species in these regions may be operating beyond their hydraulic limits. Continued climate change is likely to further reduce HSM50 in the Amazon6,7, with strong implications for the Amazon carbon sink.
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Affiliation(s)
- Julia Valentim Tavares
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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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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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- AMAP (Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- School of Geography, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), Birmingham, UK
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
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- Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
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- Instituto de Geociências, Faculdade de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
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- Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
- Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
- Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
- Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
- Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana (UNAP), Iquitos, Peru
- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
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- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos-SP, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
- SOS Amazônia, Programa Governança e Proteção da Paisagem Verde na Amazônia, Rio Branco-AC, Brazil
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- Sección Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Acre, Campus Baixada do Sol, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
- Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
- Department of Physics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
- Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre de Grohmann (UNJBG), Tacna, Peru
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
- Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
- Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Sección Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
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- Museu Universitário, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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Draper FC, Costa FRC, Arellano G, Phillips OL, Duque A, Macía MJ, Ter Steege H, Asner GP, Berenguer E, Schietti J, Socolar JB, de Souza FC, Dexter KG, Jørgensen PM, Tello JS, Magnusson WE, Baker TR, Castilho CV, Monteagudo-Mendoza A, Fine PVA, Ruokolainen K, Coronado ENH, Aymard G, Dávila N, Sáenz MS, Paredes MAR, Engel J, Fortunel C, Paine CET, Goret JY, Dourdain A, Petronelli P, Allie E, Andino JEG, Brienen RJW, Pérez LC, Manzatto ÂG, Zambrana NYP, Molino JF, Sabatier D, Chave J, Fauset S, Villacorta RG, Réjou-Méchain M, Berry PE, Melgaço K, Feldpausch TR, Sandoval EV, Martinez RV, Mesones I, Junqueira AB, Roucoux KH, de Toledo JJ, Andrade AC, Camargo JL, Del Aguila Pasquel J, Santana FD, Laurance WF, Laurance SG, Lovejoy TE, Comiskey JA, Galbraith DR, Kalamandeen M, Aguilar GEN, Arenas JV, Guerra CAA, Flores M, Llampazo GF, Montenegro LAT, Gomez RZ, Pansonato MP, Moscoso VC, Vleminckx J, Barrantes OJV, Duivenvoorden JF, de Sousa SA, Arroyo L, Perdiz RO, Cravo JS, Marimon BS, Junior BHM, Carvalho FA, Damasco G, Disney M, Vital MS, Diaz PRS, Vicentini A, Nascimento H, Higuchi N, Van Andel T, Malhi Y, Ribeiro SC, Terborgh JW, Thomas RS, Dallmeier F, Prieto A, Hilário RR, Salomão RP, Silva RDC, Casas LF, Vieira ICG, Araujo-Murakami A, Arevalo FR, Ramírez-Angulo H, Torre EV, Peñuela MC, Killeen TJ, Pardo G, Jimenez-Rojas E, Castro W, Cabrera DG, Pipoly J, de Sousa TR, Silvera M, Vos V, Neill D, Vargas PN, Vela DM, Aragão LEOC, Umetsu RK, Sierra R, Wang O, Young KR, Prestes NCCS, Massi KG, Huaymacari JR, Gutierrez GAP, Aldana AM, Alexiades MN, Baccaro F, Céron C, Muelbert AE, Rios JMG, Lima AS, Lloyd JL, Pitman NCA, Gamarra LV, Oroche CJC, Fuentes AF, Palacios W, Patiño S, Torres-Lezama A, Baraloto C. Amazon tree dominance across forest strata. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:757-767. [PMID: 33795854 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01418-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
The forests of Amazonia are among the most biodiverse plant communities on Earth. Given the immediate threats posed by climate and land-use change, an improved understanding of how this extraordinary biodiversity is spatially organized is urgently required to develop effective conservation strategies. Most Amazonian tree species are extremely rare but a few are common across the region. Indeed, just 227 'hyperdominant' species account for >50% of all individuals >10 cm diameter at 1.3 m in height. Yet, the degree to which the phenomenon of hyperdominance is sensitive to tree size, the extent to which the composition of dominant species changes with size class and how evolutionary history constrains tree hyperdominance, all remain unknown. Here, we use a large floristic dataset to show that, while hyperdominance is a universal phenomenon across forest strata, different species dominate the forest understory, midstory and canopy. We further find that, although species belonging to a range of phylogenetically dispersed lineages have become hyperdominant in small size classes, hyperdominants in large size classes are restricted to a few lineages. Our results demonstrate that it is essential to consider all forest strata to understand regional patterns of dominance and composition in Amazonia. More generally, through the lens of 654 hyperdominant species, we outline a tractable pathway for understanding the functioning of half of Amazonian forests across vertical strata and geographical locations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Frederick C Draper
- Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. .,School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. .,Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.,Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.,Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Intergrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- UNELLEZ-Guanare, Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario (PORT), Mesa de Cavacas, Venezuela.,Compensation International Progress S. A.-Ciprogress Greenlife, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
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- Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
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- AMAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- AMAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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- INRA, UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CNRS, CIRAD, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, French Guiana
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- INRA, UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CNRS, CIRAD, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, French Guiana
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil
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- AMAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB) CNRS/UPS, Toulouse, France
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Intergrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.,Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Department of Environment and Development, Federal University of Amapá, Macapa, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.,Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquito, Peru
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquito, Peru
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.,Estación Biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
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- Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Centro de Estudos da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Washington DC, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Environment and Development, Federal University of Amapá, Macapa, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia-UFRA/CAPES, Belém, Brazil.,Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brasil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Fundación Natura Colombia, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela.,School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Universidad Autónoma del Beni, Riberalta, Bolivia
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- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones (IMANI), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Broward County Parks and Recreation, Miami, FL, USA.,Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University-Davie, Miami, FL, USA
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- Museu Universitário, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Universidad Autónoma del Beni, Riberalta, Bolivia
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- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, São Paulo State University (UNESP), São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
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- School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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- Herbario Alfredo Paredes (QAP), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Instituto de Ecología, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia
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- Universidad Tecnica del Norte, Herbario Nacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Research Institute Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
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- Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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Signori-Müller C, Oliveira RS, Barros FDV, Tavares JV, Gilpin M, Diniz FC, Zevallos MJM, Yupayccana CAS, Acosta M, Bacca J, Chino RSC, Cuellar GMA, Cumapa ERM, Martinez F, Mullisaca FMP, Nina A, Sanchez JMB, da Silva LF, Tello L, Tintaya JS, Ugarteche MTM, Baker TR, Bittencourt PRL, Borma LS, Brum M, Castro W, Coronado ENH, Cosio EG, Feldpausch TR, Fonseca LDM, Gloor E, Llampazo GF, Malhi Y, Mendoza AM, Moscoso VC, Araujo-Murakami A, Phillips OL, Salinas N, Silveira M, Talbot J, Vasquez R, Mencuccini M, Galbraith D. Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2310. [PMID: 33875648 PMCID: PMC8055652 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22378-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [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: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) are major substrates for plant metabolism and have been implicated in mediating drought-induced tree mortality. Despite their significance, NSC dynamics in tropical forests remain little studied. We present leaf and branch NSC data for 82 Amazon canopy tree species in six sites spanning a broad precipitation gradient. During the wet season, total NSC (NSCT) concentrations in both organs were remarkably similar across communities. However, NSCT and its soluble sugar (SS) and starch components varied much more across sites during the dry season. Notably, the proportion of leaf NSCT in the form of SS (SS:NSCT) increased greatly in the dry season in almost all species in the driest sites, implying an important role of SS in mediating water stress in these sites. This adjustment of leaf NSC balance was not observed in tree species less-adapted to water deficit, even under exceptionally dry conditions. Thus, leaf carbon metabolism may help to explain floristic sorting across water availability gradients in Amazonia and enable better prediction of forest responses to future climate change.
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Affiliation(s)
- Caroline Signori-Müller
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
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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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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú
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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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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Earth System Science Centre, National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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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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- Sección Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Sección Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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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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- Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- CREAF, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
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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
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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- International Master Program of Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life, Imperial College London Sciences, London, UK
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- School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.,University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Escuela de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Ambientales, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Boyacá, Colombia.,Fundación ConVida, Medellín, Colombia
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- Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
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- Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, University in Durham, Durham, NC, USA
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- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Florestais, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Dirección de la Carrera de Biología, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
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- UNELLEZ-Guanare, Herbario Universitario (PORT), Portuguesa, Venezuela Compensation International Progress S.A. Ciprogress-Greenlife, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
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- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
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- Department of Biological Sciences, International Center for Tropical Botany, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus Floresta, Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil
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- UR Forest & Societies, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
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- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
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- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Florestais, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversite Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- 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
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- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela.,IIAMA, Universitat Politécnica de València, València, Spain
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- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.,School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Unidad Académica del Trópico, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
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- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.,Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
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- 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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- Broward County Parks Recreation, Oakland Park, FL, USA
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- Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- School of Geography, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
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- 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
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- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- 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.
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
- IIAMA, Universitat Politécnica de València, València, Spain
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- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Unidad Académica del Trópico, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
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- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso PPG-Ecologia e Conservação, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
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- 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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- Broward County Parks Recreation, Oakland Park, FL, USA
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- Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- School of Geography, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
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- 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
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- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
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- Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales, CIMA Cordillera Azul, Lima, Peru
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
- Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Belém, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
- Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
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- Guyana Forestry Commission, Georgetown, Guyana
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- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France
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- Institute for Conservation Research, Escondido, CA, USA
| | - Joey Talbot
- Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- 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
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- Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- 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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Sullivan MJP, Lewis SL, Affum-Baffoe K, Castilho C, Costa F, Sanchez AC, Ewango CEN, Hubau W, Marimon B, Monteagudo-Mendoza A, Qie L, Sonké B, Martinez RV, Baker TR, Brienen RJW, Feldpausch TR, Galbraith D, Gloor M, Malhi Y, Aiba SI, Alexiades MN, Almeida EC, de Oliveira EA, Dávila EÁ, Loayza PA, Andrade A, Vieira SA, Aragão LEOC, Araujo-Murakami A, Arets EJMM, Arroyo L, Ashton P, Aymard C. G, Baccaro FB, Banin LF, Baraloto C, Camargo PB, Barlow J, Barroso J, Bastin JF, Batterman SA, Beeckman H, Begne SK, Bennett AC, Berenguer E, Berry N, Blanc L, Boeckx P, Bogaert J, Bonal D, Bongers F, Bradford M, Brearley FQ, Brncic T, Brown F, Burban B, Camargo JL, Castro W, Céron C, Ribeiro SC, Moscoso VC, Chave J, Chezeaux E, Clark CJ, de Souza FC, Collins M, Comiskey JA, Valverde FC, Medina MC, da Costa L, Dančák M, Dargie GC, Davies S, Cardozo ND, de Haulleville T, de Medeiros MB, del Aguila Pasquel J, Derroire G, Di Fiore A, Doucet JL, Dourdain A, Droissart V, Duque LF, Ekoungoulou R, Elias F, Erwin T, Esquivel-Muelbert A, Fauset S, Ferreira J, Llampazo GF, Foli E, Ford A, Gilpin M, Hall JS, Hamer KC, Hamilton AC, Harris DJ, Hart TB, Hédl R, Herault B, Herrera R, Higuchi N, Hladik A, Coronado EH, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco I, Huasco WH, Jeffery KJ, Jimenez-Rojas E, Kalamandeen M, Djuikouo MNK, Kearsley E, Umetsu RK, Kho LK, Killeen T, Kitayama K, Klitgaard B, Koch A, Labrière N, Laurance W, Laurance S, Leal ME, Levesley A, Lima AJN, Lisingo J, Lopes AP, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Lovejoy T, Lovett JC, Lowe R, Magnusson WE, Malumbres-Olarte J, Manzatto ÂG, Marimon BH, Marshall AR, Marthews T, de Almeida Reis SM, Maycock C, Melgaço K, Mendoza C, Metali F, Mihindou V, Milliken W, Mitchard ETA, Morandi PS, Mossman HL, Nagy L, Nascimento H, Neill D, Nilus R, Vargas PN, Palacios W, Camacho NP, Peacock J, Pendry C, Peñuela Mora MC, Pickavance GC, Pipoly J, Pitman N, Playfair M, Poorter L, Poulsen JR, Poulsen AD, Preziosi R, Prieto A, Primack RB, Ramírez-Angulo H, Reitsma J, Réjou-Méchain M, Correa ZR, de Sousa TR, Bayona LR, Roopsind A, Rudas A, Rutishauser E, Abu Salim K, Salomão RP, Schietti J, Sheil D, Silva RC, Espejo JS, Valeria CS, Silveira M, Simo-Droissart M, Simon MF, Singh J, Soto Shareva YC, Stahl C, Stropp J, Sukri R, Sunderland T, Svátek M, Swaine MD, Swamy V, Taedoumg H, Talbot J, Taplin J, Taylor D, ter Steege H, Terborgh J, Thomas R, Thomas SC, Torres-Lezama A, Umunay P, Gamarra LV, van der Heijden G, van der Hout P, van der Meer P, van Nieuwstadt M, Verbeeck H, Vernimmen R, Vicentini A, Vieira ICG, Torre EV, Vleminckx J, Vos V, Wang O, White LJT, Willcock S, Woods JT, Wortel V, Young K, Zagt R, Zemagho L, Zuidema PA, Zwerts JA, Phillips OL. Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests. Science 2020; 368:869-874. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw7578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Martin J. P. Sullivan
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
| | | | - Carolina Castilho
- Embrapa Roraima, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Brasília, Brazil
| | - Flávia Costa
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
| | - Aida Cuni Sanchez
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
| | - Corneille E. N. Ewango
- DR Congo Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestiere (CEFRECOF), Epulu, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo
| | - Wannes Hubau
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
- Department of Environment, Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Beatriz Marimon
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina-MT, Brazil
| | | | - Lan Qie
- School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
| | - Bonaventure Sonké
- Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
| | | | | | | | - Ted R. Feldpausch
- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | | | - Manuel Gloor
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
| | - Yadvinder Malhi
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Shin-Ichiro Aiba
- Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
| | | | - Everton C. Almeida
- Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém - PA, Brazil
| | | | - Esteban Álvarez Dávila
- Escuela de Ciencias Agrícolas, Pecuarias y del Medio Ambiente, National Open University and Distance, Bogotá, Colombia
| | | | - Ana Andrade
- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
| | | | - Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- 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 René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
| | | | - Luzmila Arroyo
- Dirección de la Carrera de Biología, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
| | - Peter Ashton
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
| | - Gerardo Aymard C.
- Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario, Guanare, Venezuela
| | | | | | - Christopher Baraloto
- International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
| | - Plínio Barbosa Camargo
- Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
| | - Jos Barlow
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
| | - Jorcely Barroso
- Centro Multidisciplinar, Universidade Federal do Acre, Cruzeiro do Sul, AC, Brazil
| | - Jean-François Bastin
- Institure of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Environment, Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVELab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Sarah A. Batterman
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA
| | - Hans Beeckman
- Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
| | - Serge K. Begne
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
| | | | - Erika Berenguer
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
| | | | - Lilian Blanc
- UR Forest and Societies, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
| | - Pascal Boeckx
- Isotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
| | - Jan Bogaert
- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
| | | | - Frans Bongers
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | | | - Francis Q. Brearley
- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
| | - Terry Brncic
- Congo Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Brazzavile, Republic of Congo
| | | | - Benoit Burban
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, CIRAD, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, 97310 Kourou, French Guiana
| | - José Luís Camargo
- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
| | - Wendeson Castro
- Programa de Pós-Graduação Ecologia e Manejo de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
| | - Carlos Céron
- Herbario Alfredo Paredes, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
| | - Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro
- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
| | | | - Jerôme Chave
- Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174 (CNRS/IRD/UPS), CNRS, Toulouse, France
| | | | - Connie J. Clark
- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
| | | | - Murray Collins
- Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK
- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - James A. Comiskey
- Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
| | | | | | - Lola da Costa
- Instituto de Geociências, Faculdade de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Para, Belém, PA, Brazil
| | - Martin Dančák
- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
| | | | - Stuart Davies
- Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama
| | | | - Thales de Haulleville
- Service of Wood Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
| | - Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros
- Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Brasília, Brazil
| | | | - Géraldine Derroire
- Cirad, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParisTech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane), Kourou, French Guiana
| | - Anthony Di Fiore
- Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
| | - Jean-Louis Doucet
- Forest Resources Management, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
| | - Aurélie Dourdain
- Cirad, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParisTech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane), Kourou, French Guiana
| | - Vincent Droissart
- AMAP, Universite de Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, France
| | | | | | - Fernando Elias
- Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil
| | - Terry Erwin
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
| | | | - Sophie Fauset
- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
| | - Joice Ferreira
- Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Brasília, Brazil
| | | | - Ernest Foli
- Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), Kumasi, Ghana
| | | | | | - Jefferson S. Hall
- Smithsonian Institution Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA
| | | | | | | | - Terese B. Hart
- Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA
| | - Radim Hédl
- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Palacký University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
| | - Bruno Herault
- Isotope Bioscience Laboratory (ISOFYS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- CIRAD, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
- Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
| | - Rafael Herrera
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
| | - Niro Higuchi
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
| | - Annette Hladik
- Département Hommes, Natures, Sociétés, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturel, Paris, France
| | | | | | | | - Kathryn J. Jeffery
- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
| | | | - Michelle Kalamandeen
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Marie Noël Kamdem Djuikouo
- Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Department of Environment, Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
| | - Elizabeth Kearsley
- Department of Environment, Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVELab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
| | | | - Lip Khoon Kho
- Tropical Peat Research Institute, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Selangor, Malaysia
| | | | | | | | - Alexander Koch
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pok Ful Lam, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
| | - Nicolas Labrière
- Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174 (CNRS/IRD/UPS), CNRS, Toulouse, France
| | - William Laurance
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD, Australia
| | - Susan Laurance
- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD, Australia
| | - Miguel E. Leal
- Uganda Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, Kampala, Uganda
| | | | | | - Janvier Lisingo
- Faculté de Gestion de Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo
| | - Aline P. Lopes
- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
| | | | - Tom Lovejoy
- Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
| | - Jon C. Lovett
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, London, UK
| | - Richard Lowe
- Botany Department, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
| | - William E. Magnusson
- Coordenação da Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Mauaus, Brazil
| | - Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte
- cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes / Azorean Biodiversity Group, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal
- LIBRe – Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Ângelo Gilberto Manzatto
- Laboratório de Biogeoquímica Ambiental Wolfgang C. Pfeiffer, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho - RO, Brazil
| | - Ben Hur Marimon
- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina-MT, Brazil
| | - Andrew R. Marshall
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
- Flamingo Land Ltd., North Yorkshire, UK
| | - Toby Marthews
- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
| | - Simone Matias de Almeida Reis
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina-MT, Brazil
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Colin Maycock
- School of International Tropical Forestry, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
| | | | - Casimiro Mendoza
- Escuela de Ciencias Forestales, Unidad Académica del Trópico, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Sacta, Bolivia
| | - Faizah Metali
- Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
| | - Vianet Mihindou
- Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon
- Ministère de la Forêt, de la Mer, de l'Environnement, Chargé du Plan Climat, Libreville, Gabon
| | | | | | - Paulo S. Morandi
- UNEMAT - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina-MT, Brazil
| | - Hannah L. Mossman
- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
| | - Laszlo Nagy
- Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
| | | | - David Neill
- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
| | - Reuben Nilus
- Forest Research Centre, Sabah Forestry Department, Sepilok, Malaysia
| | - Percy Núñez Vargas
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
| | - Walter Palacios
- Carrera de Ingeniería Forestal, Universidad Tecnica del Norte, Ibarra, Ecuador
| | - Nadir Pallqui Camacho
- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
| | | | | | | | | | - John Pipoly
- Public Communications and Outreach Group, Parks and Recreation Division, Oakland Park, FL, USA
| | - Nigel Pitman
- Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - Maureen Playfair
- Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS), Paramaribo, Suriname
| | - Lourens Poorter
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
| | - John R. Poulsen
- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
| | | | - Richard Preziosi
- Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
| | - Adriana Prieto
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Leticia, Colombia
| | | | - Hirma Ramírez-Angulo
- Institute of Research for Forestry Development (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
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- Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales, CIMA Cordillera Azul, Lima, Peru
| | - Anand Roopsind
- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
| | - Agustín Rudas
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Leticia, Colombia
| | - Ervan Rutishauser
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama
- Carboforexpert, Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - Rafael P. Salomão
- Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia/CAPES, Belém, PA, Brazil
- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil
| | - Juliana Schietti
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
| | - Douglas Sheil
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
| | - Richarlly C. Silva
- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
- Instituto Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
| | - Murielle Simo-Droissart
- Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
| | - Marcelo Fragomeni Simon
- Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Brasília, Brazil
| | - James Singh
- Guyana Forestry Commission, Georgetown, Guyana
| | | | - Clement Stahl
- INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, CIRAD, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, 97310 Kourou, French Guiana
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
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- Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems, Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia
- Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA. USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaounde 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Bioversity International, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- UK Research and Innovation, Innovate UK, London, UK
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- Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY, USA
- Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Environment, Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology (CAVELab), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, OR, USA
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- International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado, La Paz, Bolivia
- Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Riberalta, Bolivia
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
- Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon
- Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, Libreville, Gabon
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Bangor, Bangor, UK
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- Forest Management, Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS), Paramaribo, Suriname
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- Department of Geography and The Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS), Paramaribo, Suriname
- Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Esquivel‐Muelbert A, Baker TR, Dexter KG, Lewis SL, Brienen RJW, Feldpausch TR, Lloyd J, Monteagudo‐Mendoza A, Arroyo L, Álvarez-Dávila E, Higuchi N, Marimon BS, Marimon-Junior BH, Silveira M, Vilanova E, Gloor E, Malhi Y, Chave J, Barlow J, Bonal D, Davila Cardozo N, Erwin T, Fauset S, Hérault B, Laurance S, Poorter L, Qie L, Stahl C, Sullivan MJP, ter Steege H, Vos VA, Zuidema PA, Almeida E, Almeida de Oliveira E, Andrade A, Vieira SA, Aragão L, Araujo‐Murakami A, Arets E, Aymard C GA, Baraloto C, Camargo PB, Barroso JG, Bongers F, Boot R, Camargo JL, Castro W, Chama Moscoso V, Comiskey J, Cornejo Valverde F, Lola da Costa AC, del Aguila Pasquel J, Di Fiore A, Fernanda Duque L, Elias F, Engel J, Flores Llampazo G, Galbraith D, Herrera Fernández R, Honorio Coronado E, Hubau W, Jimenez‐Rojas E, Lima AJN, Umetsu RK, Laurance W, Lopez‐Gonzalez G, Lovejoy T, Aurelio Melo Cruz O, Morandi PS, Neill D, Núñez Vargas P, Pallqui Camacho NC, Parada Gutierrez A, Pardo G, Peacock J, Peña‐Claros M, Peñuela‐Mora MC, Petronelli P, Pickavance GC, Pitman N, Prieto A, Quesada C, Ramírez‐Angulo H, Réjou‐Méchain M, Restrepo Correa Z, Roopsind A, Rudas A, Salomão R, Silva N, Silva Espejo J, Singh J, Stropp J, Terborgh J, Thomas R, Toledo M, Torres‐Lezama A, Valenzuela Gamarra L, van de Meer PJ, van der Heijden G, van der Hout P, Vasquez Martinez R, Vela C, Vieira ICG, Phillips OL. Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. Glob Chang Biol 2019; 25:39-56. [PMID: 30406962 PMCID: PMC6334637 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Revised: 06/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Most of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate-induced biodiversity changes are widely documented elsewhere, few studies have addressed this issue for lowland tropical ecosystems. Here we investigate whether the floristic and functional composition of intact lowland Amazonian forests have been changing by evaluating records from 106 long-term inventory plots spanning 30 years. We analyse three traits that have been hypothesized to respond to different environmental drivers (increase in moisture stress and atmospheric CO2 concentrations): maximum tree size, biogeographic water-deficit affiliation and wood density. Tree communities have become increasingly dominated by large-statured taxa, but to date there has been no detectable change in mean wood density or water deficit affiliation at the community level, despite most forest plots having experienced an intensification of the dry season. However, among newly recruited trees, dry-affiliated genera have become more abundant, while the mortality of wet-affiliated genera has increased in those plots where the dry season has intensified most. Thus, a slow shift to a more dry-affiliated Amazonia is underway, with changes in compositional dynamics (recruits and mortality) consistent with climate-change drivers, but yet to significantly impact whole-community composition. The Amazon observational record suggests that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is driving a shift within tree communities to large-statured species and that climate changes to date will impact forest composition, but long generation times of tropical trees mean that biodiversity change is lagging behind climate change.
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Baker TR, Vela Díaz DM, Chama Moscoso V, Navarro G, Monteagudo A, Pinto R, Cangani K, Fyllas NM, Lopez Gonzalez G, Laurance WF, Lewis SL, Lloyd J, Ter Steege H, Terborgh JW, Phillips OL. Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests. J Ecol 2016; 104:497-506. [PMID: 27609991 DOI: 10.5521/forestplots.net/2015_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Understanding the resilience of moist tropical forests to treefall disturbance events is important for understanding the mechanisms that underlie species coexistence and for predicting the future composition of these ecosystems. Here, we test whether variation in the functional composition of Amazonian forests determines their resilience to disturbance.We studied the legacy of natural treefall disturbance events in four forests across Amazonia that differ substantially in functional composition. We compared the composition and diversity of all free-standing woody stems 2-10 cm diameter in previously disturbed and undisturbed 20 × 20 m subplots within 55, one-hectare, long-term forest inventory plots.Overall, stem number increased following disturbance, and species and functional composition shifted to favour light-wooded, small-seeded taxa. Alpha-diversity increased, but beta-diversity was unaffected by disturbance, in all four forests.Changes in response to disturbance in both functional composition and alpha-diversity were, however, small (2 - 4% depending on the parameter) and similar among forests. Synthesis. This study demonstrates that variation in the functional composition of Amazonian forests does not lead to large differences in the response of these forests to treefall disturbances, and overall, these events have a minor role in maintaining the diversity of these ecosystems.
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- Timothy R Baker
- School of Geography University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT UK
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- Department of Biology Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis MO 63130 USA
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- Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana Sargento Lores 385 Iquitos Peru
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology James Cook University Cairns Qld 4870 Australia
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology James Cook University Cairns Qld 4870 Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Systematics Faculty of Biology University of Athens Panepistimiopolis 15701 Athens Greece
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology James Cook University Cairns Qld4870 Australia; Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Av. André Araujo 2936 Manaus Brazil
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- School of Geography University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT UK; University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK
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- Imperial College Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road Ascot West Berkshire SL5 7PY UK
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center PO Box 9517 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands
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- Center for Tropical Conservation Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University Box 90328 Durham NC 27708 USA
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- School of Geography University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT UK
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Baker TR, Vela Díaz DM, Chama Moscoso V, Navarro G, Monteagudo A, Pinto R, Cangani K, Fyllas NM, Lopez Gonzalez G, Laurance WF, Lewis SL, Lloyd J, Ter Steege H, Terborgh JW, Phillips OL. Consistent, small effects of treefall disturbances on the composition and diversity of four Amazonian forests. J Ecol 2016; 104:497-506. [PMID: 27609991 PMCID: PMC4991291 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
Abstract
Understanding the resilience of moist tropical forests to treefall disturbance events is important for understanding the mechanisms that underlie species coexistence and for predicting the future composition of these ecosystems. Here, we test whether variation in the functional composition of Amazonian forests determines their resilience to disturbance.We studied the legacy of natural treefall disturbance events in four forests across Amazonia that differ substantially in functional composition. We compared the composition and diversity of all free-standing woody stems 2-10 cm diameter in previously disturbed and undisturbed 20 × 20 m subplots within 55, one-hectare, long-term forest inventory plots.Overall, stem number increased following disturbance, and species and functional composition shifted to favour light-wooded, small-seeded taxa. Alpha-diversity increased, but beta-diversity was unaffected by disturbance, in all four forests.Changes in response to disturbance in both functional composition and alpha-diversity were, however, small (2 - 4% depending on the parameter) and similar among forests. Synthesis. This study demonstrates that variation in the functional composition of Amazonian forests does not lead to large differences in the response of these forests to treefall disturbances, and overall, these events have a minor role in maintaining the diversity of these ecosystems.
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- Timothy R Baker
- School of Geography University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT UK
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- Department of Biology Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis MO 63130 USA
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- Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana Sargento Lores 385 Iquitos Peru
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology James Cook University Cairns Qld 4870 Australia
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology James Cook University Cairns Qld 4870 Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Systematics Faculty of Biology University of Athens Panepistimiopolis 15701 Athens Greece
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology James Cook University Cairns Qld4870 Australia; Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Av. André Araujo 2936 Manaus Brazil
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- School of Geography University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT UK; University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK
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- Imperial College Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road Ascot West Berkshire SL5 7PY UK
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center PO Box 9517 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands
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- Center for Tropical Conservation Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University Box 90328 Durham NC 27708 USA
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- School of Geography University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT UK
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Mitchard ETA, Feldpausch TR, Brienen RJW, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Monteagudo A, Baker TR, Lewis SL, Lloyd J, Quesada CA, Gloor M, ter Steege H, Meir P, Alvarez E, Araujo-Murakami A, Aragão LEOC, Arroyo L, Aymard G, Banki O, Bonal D, Brown S, Brown FI, Cerón CE, Chama Moscoso V, Chave J, Comiskey JA, Cornejo F, Corrales Medina M, Da Costa L, Costa FRC, Di Fiore A, Domingues TF, Erwin TL, Frederickson T, Higuchi N, Honorio Coronado EN, Killeen TJ, Laurance WF, Levis C, Magnusson WE, Marimon BS, Marimon Junior BH, Mendoza Polo I, Mishra P, Nascimento MT, Neill D, Núñez Vargas MP, Palacios WA, Parada A, Pardo Molina G, Peña-Claros M, Pitman N, Peres CA, Poorter L, Prieto A, Ramirez-Angulo H, Restrepo Correa Z, Roopsind A, Roucoux KH, Rudas A, Salomão RP, Schietti J, Silveira M, de Souza PF, Steininger MK, Stropp J, Terborgh J, Thomas R, Toledo M, Torres-Lezama A, van Andel TR, van der Heijden GMF, Vieira ICG, Vieira S, Vilanova-Torre E, Vos VA, Wang O, Zartman CE, Malhi Y, Phillips OL. Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 2014; 23:935-946. [PMID: 26430387 PMCID: PMC4579864 DOI: 10.1111/geb.12168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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AIM The accurate mapping of forest carbon stocks is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle, for assessing emissions from deforestation, and for rational land-use planning. Remote sensing (RS) is currently the key tool for this purpose, but RS does not estimate vegetation biomass directly, and thus may miss significant spatial variations in forest structure. We test the stated accuracy of pantropical carbon maps using a large independent field dataset. LOCATION Tropical forests of the Amazon basin. The permanent archive of the field plot data can be accessed at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5521/FORESTPLOTS.NET/2014_1. METHODS Two recent pantropical RS maps of vegetation carbon are compared to a unique ground-plot dataset, involving tree measurements in 413 large inventory plots located in nine countries. The RS maps were compared directly to field plots, and kriging of the field data was used to allow area-based comparisons. RESULTS The two RS carbon maps fail to capture the main gradient in Amazon forest carbon detected using 413 ground plots, from the densely wooded tall forests of the north-east, to the light-wooded, shorter forests of the south-west. The differences between plots and RS maps far exceed the uncertainties given in these studies, with whole regions over- or under-estimated by > 25%, whereas regional uncertainties for the maps were reported to be < 5%. MAIN CONCLUSIONS Pantropical biomass maps are widely used by governments and by projects aiming to reduce deforestation using carbon offsets, but may have significant regional biases. Carbon-mapping techniques must be revised to account for the known ecological variation in tree wood density and allometry to create maps suitable for carbon accounting. The use of single relationships between tree canopy height and above-ground biomass inevitably yields large, spatially correlated errors. This presents a significant challenge to both the forest conservation and remote sensing communities, because neither wood density nor species assemblages can be reliably mapped from space.
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- Edward T A Mitchard
- School of GeoSciences, University of EdinburghEdinburgh, EH9 3JN, UK
- *Correspondence: Edward T. A. Mitchard, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Crew Building, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JN, UK., E-mail:
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- School of Geography, University of LeedsLeeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterExeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
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- School of Geography, University of LeedsLeeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- Department of Geography, University College LondonUK
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial CollegeLondon, UK
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- School of Geography, University of LeedsLeeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeiden, the Netherlands
- Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht UniversityUtrecht, the Netherlands
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- School of GeoSciences, University of EdinburghEdinburgh, EH9 3JN, UK
- Research School of Biology, Australian National UniversityCanberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
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- Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Grupo de Investigación en Servicios Ecosistémicos y Cambio ClimáticoMedellin, Colombia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René MorenoCasilla 2489, Av. Irala 565, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of ExeterExeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
- Remote Sensing Division, National Institute for Space Research – INPESão José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René MorenoCasilla 2489, Av. Irala 565, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- UNELLEZ-Guanare, Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario (PORT)Mesa de Cavacas, Estado Portuguesa, 3350, Venezuela
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- IBED, University of AmsterdamPOSTBUS 94248, 1090 GE, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- L'Institut National de la Recherche AgronomiqueUMR 1137 EEF, 54280, Champenoux, France
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- Ecosystem Services Unit, Winrock InternationalArlington, VA, 22202, USA
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- Woods Hole Research CenterFalmouth, MA, USA
- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da NaturezaRio Branco, AC, 69910-900, Brazil
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- Herbario Alfredo Paredes (QAP), Universidad Central del EcuadorQuito, Ecuador
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- Université Paul Sabatier, Laboratoire EDBbâtiment 4R3, 31062, Toulouse, France
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- Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Facultad de Ciencias ForestalesLima, Peru
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- Geociencias, Universidade Federal de ParaBelem, Brazil
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- FFCLRP-USP, Department of Biology, Universidade de São Paulo05508-090, Brazil
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- Department of Entomology, Smithsonian InstitutionP.O. Box 37012, MRC 187, Washington, DC, 20013-7012, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManaus, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of LeedsLeeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía PeruanaAv. José A. Quiñones km. 2.5, Iquitos, Peru
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- World Wildlife Fund1250 24th Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20037, USA
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS), School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook UniversityCairns, Queensland, 4878, Australia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManaus, Brazil
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- Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Campus de Nova XavantinaCaixa Postal 08, CEP 78.690-000, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Campus de Nova XavantinaCaixa Postal 08, CEP 78.690-000, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Grupo de Investigación en Servicios Ecosistémicos y Cambio ClimáticoMedellin, Colombia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of TechnologyRoorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India
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- Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte FlumineseCampos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brasil
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- Puyo, Universidad Estatal AmazónicaPaso lateral km 2½ via a Napo, Pastaza, Ecuador
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- Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Universidad Técnica del NorteEcuador
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René MorenoCasilla 2489, Av. Irala 565, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen UniversityP.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Instituto Boliviano de Investigación ForestalSanta Cruz, Bolivia
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- Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke UniversityBox 90381, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Centre for Biodiversity Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East AngliaNorwich, NR4 7JT, UK
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen UniversityP.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de ColombiaBogota, Colombia
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- Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Grupo de Investigación en Servicios Ecosistémicos y Cambio ClimáticoMedellin, Colombia
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- Department of Biology, University of FloridaP.O. 118526, 511 Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611-8526, USA
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- Museu Paraense Emilio GoeldiAv. Magalhães Barata, 376, São Braz, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da NaturezaRio Branco, AC, 69910-900, Brazil
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- Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation InternationalWashington, DC, USA
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- Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre of the European CommissionVia Enrico Fermi, 2748 TP 440, I-21027, Ispra, Italy
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke UniversityBox 90381, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Iwokrama International Centre77 High Street Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Instituto Boliviano de Investigación ForestalSanta Cruz, Bolivia
- Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René MorenoSanta Cruz, Bolivia
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- University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeP.O Box 413, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
- Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteApartado, Postal 0843-03092, Panamá, Panama
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- Museu Paraense Emilio GoeldiAv. Magalhães Barata, 376, São Braz, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais, Universidade Estadual de CampinasCampinas, Brazil
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- Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Universidad Técnica del NorteEcuador
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- Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology, Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of OxfordOxford, UK
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