Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

Poorter, Lourens; Sande, Masha T. van der; Arets, E.J.M.M.; Ascarrunz, Nataly; Enquist, Brian J.; Finegan, Bryan; Licona, Juan Carlos; Martı́nez-Ramos, Miguel; Mazzei, Lucas; Meave, Jorge A.; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Nytch, Christopher J.; Oliveira, Alexandre Adalardo de; Pérez‐García, Eduardo A.; Rodríguez-Velázques, Jorge; Ruschel, Ademir Roberto; Salgado‐Negret, Beatriz; Schiavini, Ivan; Swenson, Nathan G.; Tenorio, Elkin A.; Thompson, Jill; Toledo, Marisol; Uriarte, María; Hout, P. van der; Zimmerman, Jess K.; Peña-Claros, Marielos

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“…Recently, substantial advance has been made to understand the species relative contribution to the ecosystem functioning on the functional trait‐based approach (e.g. Gross et al 2017; Poorter et al 2017; Zirbel et al 2017). Thus, this approach has great importance to explain the effects of multiple anthropogenic, abiotic, and abiotic factors (i.e.…”

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“…In tropical forest, the anthropogenic, abiotic factors, and stand age attributes (i.e. functional, taxonomic, and structural attributes) concomitantly shape ecosystem functioning, such as AGB stock (Ali et al 2017; Poorter et al 2017; Villa et al 2020a). Thus linking the functional diversity (i.e.…”

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“…Furthermore, the aboveground carbon stock recovery and conservation is an important ecosystem service to climate change mitigation (Villa et al 2020b). Recently, these changes during ecological restoration and ecosystem recovery have been evaluated in different studies under the trait‐based approach of plant communities (functional traits associated with colonization, establishment, growth, and survival) in different types of tropical, subtropical, and temperate forests (Poorter et al 2017, 2019; Yuan et al 2019; Hao et al 2020; Mensah et al 2020; Sanaei et al 2020; Villa et al 2020a; Wang & Ali 2021). Furthermore, this approach has relevance in different types of ecosystems, such as alpine grasslands (Wüest et al 2018), sandy grassland (Zuo et al 2016), and prairies (Zirbel et al 2017).…”

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“…In this context, there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) in tropical forests (Chisholm et al 2013; Poorter et al 2017). The BEF relationship is important for the understanding of how taxonomical and functional species diversity of tree communities affects the AGB stock and dynamic (e.g.…”

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“…The BEF relationship is important for the understanding of how taxonomical and functional species diversity of tree communities affects the AGB stock and dynamic (e.g. Poorter et al 2017; Hao et al 2020; Mensah et al 2020; Villa et al 2020b), including in areas undergoing secondary succession in human‐modified forest landscapes (Lohbeck et al 2015; Villa et al 2020b, 2021). Previous studies show that in tropical forests the dominant species (i.e.…”

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Functional composition enhances aboveground biomass stock undergoing active forest restoration on mining tailings in Mariana, Brazil

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Functional composition is an important driver of aboveground biomass (AGB) variation in the tropical forest and has been demonstrated through the mass ratio hypotheses (MRH) that explain how dominant species and their functional traits have an important role in the AGB increase. We hypothesized that AGB stock of tree species is promoted by the simultaneous effects of restoration treatments and Technosol quality through functional trait composition. We tested the main effects of taxonomic, stand structural, functional attributes and abiotic factors undergoing different restoration methods (planting of nursery-grown seedlings, seeding, and natural regeneration) and the effect of Technosol fertilization on AGB using different linear models. The functional traits were based on the community-weighted mean of the community of values of functional traits related to MRH. Stems and biomass distribution were categorized into the following functional groups: successional strategy, dispersal syndrome, nitrogen fixation, wood density (WD). As expected, during early restoration stage, the pioneer and anemochoric species were dominants mainly represented by naturally regenerated stems. However, the autochoric dispersal and nitrogen-fixing tree species were biomass dominant groups in active restoration, driven mostly by Senna alata which had high abundance and WD. We found that high WD and active restoration methods determine higher AGB stock on mining tailings where natural regeneration is limited. We conclude that functional composition reverses the effects of species richness and abundance on AGB tenting the MRH. Therefore, the effects of functional composition and restoration methods are key predictors on ecosystem functioning during forest restoration.

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Carbon sink and source function of Eastern Himalayan forests: implications of change in climate and biotic variables

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Intraspecific trait variation and species turnover in successional tropical forests: assessing trait imputation for community-weighted means

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Baraloto

2023

Plant Ecol

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Accounting for intraspeci c trait variation (ITV) is crucial to plant ecology for vegetation modeling efforts. ITV can be substantial; however, it remains unclear how ITV in uences community-weighted mean (CWM) trait estimates. We use leaf and root trait data from 423 trees of 72 species from 15 Angiosperm families in combination with community data from 164 25×25m plots comprising 580 species to evaluate the contributions of ITV and compositional turnover to CWMs, comparing unlogged primary tropical forest to selectively-logged and clear-cut secondary tropical forest. We also examine the effect of imputing missing trait values using phylogenetic generalized linear modeling (PhyloPars) on CWMs. For six of the seven traits, ITV negatively covaried with community compositional turnover to generate larger CWM differences between forest types than observed if ITV was not integrated. For example, plot average weighted mean speci c leaf area was 10.7 and 10.4 m 2 kg -1 for primary and secondary forests, not accounting for ITV, but shifted to 9.8 and 11.1 m 2 kg -1 after doing so. Our results from 72-species assemblages were largely consistent with results using phylogenetically-imputed traits for the entire community. The contribution of ITV to CWMs ranged from 25 to 75%, with nearly all trait variation due to forest type attributable to ITV. CWM trait estimates became more conservative with forest age, whereas ITV for many traits showed an opposing acquisitive shift (i.e., increasing in leaf area or root length), and because of negative covariation between ITV and species turnover, forest age-related weighted-mean trait differences increased.

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Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

Cited by 8 publications

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Functional composition enhances aboveground biomass stock undergoing active forest restoration on mining tailings in Mariana, Brazil

Functional composition enhances aboveground biomass stock undergoing active forest restoration on mining tailings in Mariana, Brazil

Carbon sink and source function of Eastern Himalayan forests: implications of change in climate and biotic variables

Intraspecific trait variation and species turnover in successional tropical forests: assessing trait imputation for community-weighted means

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