Palm functional trait responses to local environmental factors in the Colombian Amazon

Trujillo, William; Rivera, Carlos; Jácome, Jorge González; García, Néstor; Eiserhardt, Wolf L.; Balslev, Henrik

doi:10.1017/s0266467421000493

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“…Across scales, environmental conditions drive plant species distributions (Guisan and Zimmermann 2000), functional properties, and community structure (Bruelheide et al 2018) as species coping well with prevailing biotic and abiotic conditions maintain viable populations if the species can disperse to the region. Therefore, plant communities and their relationships with environment have been widely studied to characterize and predict ecosystem structure and functioning on a broad range of scales and biomes (Bruelheide et al 2018, Bjorkman et al 2018a, Rolhauser et al 2021, Trujillo et al 2022). However, different interpretations and conclusions regarding these relationships arise depending on the scale of the study and thereby available data.…”

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Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales

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Patterns and processes shaping ecosystems vary across spatiotemporal scales. As plant functional traits reflect ecosystem properties, investigating their relationships with environment provides an important tool to understand and predict ecosystem structure and functioning. This is particularly important in the tundra where a changing climate may trigger severe alterations in plant communities as both summer and winter conditions are changing. Here, we investigate the relationships between key environmental drivers including summer temperature, snow persistence, topographic position and soil pH, and species height, specific leaf area (SLA) and seed mass as plant traits. The study is carried out at three spatial extents in the arctic-alpine region of Fennoscandia, modelling the trait-environment relationships at each scale to investigate whether the relationships are scale dependent. Our results show that summer temperature and snow persistence are the most important variables explaining community trait composition. Temperature is important especially to vegetation height, which increased towards higher temperatures, whereas seed mass and SLA are related to snow persistence. Seed mass decreased towards longer snow persistence, while SLA responded in scale-dependent ways. Topographic position and soil pH affect community trait composition moderately. Overall, our study demonstrates that traitenvironment relationships in the tundra are largely consistent across spatial scales. Our findings highlight the ecological relevance of snow for all three functional traits regardless of scale, showing that snow information could be particularly important to better understand large-scale trends in plant community composition and ecosystem functioning as seasonal snow cover is shrinking globally.

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The role of wild palms in agroforestry systems in the Neotropics: A review

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Casas,

Balslev

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People and Nature

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Wild palms are among the most important plants in the Neotropics due to their wide distribution, species richness and cultural relevance for humans. In addition to their presence in forests, these plants also occur in anthropogenic systems throughout their range of distribution, but their role in these systems is often overlooked. We explored databases of scientific publications to attain a panorama about the presence of wild palm species in agroforestry systems (AFS), their management and their role in those systems. Our keywords in the search engines were names of palm genera that occur in the Americas and types of agroforestry practices. We gathered and analysed information from 154 studies. For each record, we registered: study sites, management actions, agroforestry practices and uses. We identified 65 species belonging to 24 genera managed in AFS, mainly including agrisilvicultural and silvopastoral systems, homegardens and agroforests. We identified traits phylogenetically determined such as stem height, number and length of leaves, and fruit size that influence the presence of wild palms in AFS. Furthermore, we point out three major ways that favour the presence and management of palms in AFS: (1) the management of the canopy and the raise of palms in the understorey, (2) intentional enhancement or cultivation and (3) tolerance of palms during deforestation/fragmentation. We emphasize that a change in the vision of palms as key components of agroforestry would favour future research and plans to improve their performance in these systems while ensuring their conservation. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Divergent patterns and drivers of leaf functional traits of Robinia pseudoacacia and Pinus tabulaeformis plantations along a precipitation gradient in the Loess plateau, China

Zhang,

Wang,

Guo

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Palm functional trait responses to local environmental factors in the Colombian Amazon

Cited by 5 publications

References 56 publications

Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales

Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales

The role of wild palms in agroforestry systems in the Neotropics: A review

Divergent patterns and drivers of leaf functional traits of Robinia pseudoacacia and Pinus tabulaeformis plantations along a precipitation gradient in the Loess plateau, China

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