The pace of life for forest trees
| Title: | The pace of life for forest trees |
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| Authors: | L Bialic-Murphy; RM McElderry; A Esquivel-Muelbert; J van den Hoogen; PA Zuidema; OL Phillips; EA de Oliveira; PA Loayza; E Alvarez-Davila; LF Alves; VA Maia; SA Vieira; LC Arantes da Silva; A Araujo-Murakami; E Arets; J Astigarraga; F Baccaro; T Baker; O Banki; J Barroso; L Blanc; D Bonal; F Bongers; KM Bordin; R Brienen; MB de Medeiros; JL Camargo; FC Araújo; CV Castilho; W Castro; VC Moscoso; J Comiskey; F Costa; SC Müller; EC de Almeida; AC Lôla da Costa; V de Andrade Kamimura; F de Oliveira; J Del Aguila Pasquel; G Derroire; K Dexter; A Di Fiore; L Duchesne; T Emílio; CL Farrapo; S Fauset; FC Draper; TR Feldpausch; RF Ramos; VF Martins; MF Simon; MG Reis; AG Manzatto; B Herault; R Herrera; EH Coronado; R Howe; I Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; WH Huasco; KJ Zanini; C Joly; T Killeen; J Klipel; SG Laurance; WF Laurance; MAL Fontes; WL Oviedo; WE Magnusson; RM Dos Santos; JLM Peña; KMP de Abreu; B Marimon; BHM Junior; K Melgaço; OA Melo Cruz; C Mendoza; A Monteagudo-Mendoza; PS Morandi; FM Gianasi; H Nascimento; M Nascimento; D Neill; W Palacios; NCP Camacho; G Pardo; RT Pennington; MC Peñuela-Mora; NCA Pitman; L Poorter; AP Cruz; H Ramírez-Angulo; SM Reis; ZR Correa; CR Rodriguez; AR Lleras; FAM Santos; RS Bergamin; J Schietti; G Schwartz; J Serrano; AM Silva-Sene; M Silveira; J Stropp; H ter Steege; J Terborgh; MW Tobler; L Valenzuel-Gamarra; PJ van de Meer; G van der Heiden; R Vasquez; E Vilanova; VA Vos; A Wolf; CW Woodall; V Wortel; JA Zwerts; TAM Pugh; TW Crowther |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Collection: | Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR): Figshare |
| Subject Terms: | Forest ecology; life history traits; life expectancy; longevity; fast-slow continuum; trade-offs; niche differentiation; demographic diversity; tree growth stategies; demography |
| Description: | Tree growth and longevity trade-offs fundamentally shape the terrestrial carbon balance. Yet, we lack a unified understanding of how such trade-offs vary across the world's forests. By mapping life history traits for a wide range of species across the Americas, we reveal considerable variation in life expectancies from 10 centimeters in diameter (ranging from 1.3 to 3195 years) and show that the pace of life for trees can be accurately classified into four demographic functional types. We found emergent patterns in the strength of trade-offs between growth and longevity across a temperature gradient. Furthermore, we show that the diversity of life history traits varies predictably across forest biomes, giving rise to a positive relationship between trait diversity and productivity. Our pan-latitudinal assessment provides new insights into the demographic mechanisms that govern the carbon turnover rate across forest biomes. |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: | unknown |
| Relation: | 10871/137716; https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_pace_of_life_for_forest_trees/29812349 |
| Availability: | https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_pace_of_life_for_forest_trees/29812349 |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.D753ECA |
| Database: | BASE |