Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests.
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Hordijk, Iris
Poorter, Lourens
Liang, Jingjing
Reich, Peter B.
de-Miguel, Sergio
Nabuurs, Gert-Jan
Gamarra, Javier G. P.
Chen, Han Y. H.
Zhou, Mo
Wiser, Susan K.
Pretzsch, Hans
Paquette, Alain
Picard, Nicolas
Hérault, Bruno
Bastin, Jean-Francois
Alberti, Giorgio
Abegg, Meinrad
Adou Yao, Yves C.
Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M.
Alvarado, Braulio V.
Alvarez-Davila, Esteban
Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia
Alves, Luciana F.
Amaral, Iêda
Ammer, Christian
Antón-Fernández, Clara
Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
Arroyo, Luzmila
Avitabile, Valerio
Aymard C, Gerardo A.
Baker, Timothy
Banki, Olaf
Barroso, Jorcely
Bastian, Meredith L.
Birigazzi, Luca
Birnbaum, Philippe
Bitariho, Robert
Boeckx, Pascal
Bongers, Frans
Bouriaud, Olivier
Brancalion, Pedro H. S.
Brandl, Susanne
Brearley, Francis Q.
Brienen, Roel
Broadbent, Eben N.
Bruelheide, Helge
Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto
Cesar, Ricardo G.
Cesljar, Goran
Chazdon, Robin L.
Chisholm, Chelsea
Cienciala, Emil
Clark, Connie J.
Clark, David B.
Colletta, Gabriel
Coomes, David
Cornejo Valverde, Fernando
Corral-Rivas, Jose J.
Crim, Philip
Cumming, Jonathan
Dayanandan, Selvadurai
de Gasper, André L.
Decuyper, Mathieu
Derroire, Géraldine
DeVries, Ben
Djordjevic, Ilija
Dourdain, Aurélie
Dolezal, Jiri
Engone Obiang, Nestor Laurier
Enquist, Brian
Eyre, Teresa
Fandohan, Adandé Belarmain
Fayle, Tom M.
Ferreira, Leandro V.
Feldpausch, Ted R.
Finér, Leena
Fischer, Markus
Fletcher, Christine
Frizzera, Lorenzo
Gianelle, Damiano
Glick, Henry B.
Harris, David
Hector, Andrew
Hemp, Andreas
Herbohn, John
Hillers, Annika
Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N.
Hui, Cang
Cho, Hyunkook
Ibanez, Thomas
Jung, Ilbin
Imai, Nobuo
Jagodzinski, Andrzej M.
Jaroszewicz, Bogdan
Johannsen, Vivian
Joly, Carlos A.
Jucker, Tommaso
Karminov, Viktor
Kartawinata, Kuswata
Kearsley, Elizabeth
Kenfack, David
Kennard, Deborah
Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian
Keppel, Gunnar
Khan, Mohammed Latif
Killeen, Timothy
Kim, Hyun Seok
Kitayama, Kanehiro
Köhl, Michael
Korjus, Henn
Kraxner, Florian
Laarmann, Diana
Lang, Mait
Lewis, Simon
Lu, Huicui
Lukina, Natalia
Maitner, Brian
Malhi, Yadvinder
Marcon, Eric
Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes
Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur
Marshall, Andrew Robert
Martin, Emanuel
Martynenko, Olga
Meave, Jorge A.
Melo-Cruz, Omar
Mendoza, Casimiro
Merow, Cory
Miscicki, Stanislaw
Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel
Moreno, Vanessa
Mukul, Sharif A.
Mundhenk, Philip
Nava-Miranda, Maria G.
Neill, David
Neldner, Victor
Nevenic, Radovan
Ngugi, Michael
Niklaus, Pascal A.
Oleksyn, Jacek
Ontikov, Petr
Ortiz-Malavasi, Edgar
Pan, Yude
Parada-Gutierrez, Alexander
Parfenova, Elena
Park, Minjee
Parren, Marc
Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy
Peri, Pablo L.
Pfautsch, Sebastian
Phillips, Oliver L.
Piedade, Maria Teresa
Piotto, Daniel
Pitman, Nigel C. A.
Pollastrini, Martina
Polo, Irina
Poulsen, Axel Dalberg
Poulsen, John R.
Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez
Restrepo-Correa, Zorayda
Rodeghiero, Mirco
Rolim, Samir
Roopsind, Anand
Rovero, Francesco
Rutishauser, Ervan
Saikia, Purabi
Salas-Eljatib, Christian
Schall, Peter
Schepaschenko, Dmitry
Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael
Schmid, Bernhard
Schöngart, Jochen
Searle, Eric B.
Seben, Vladimír
Selvi, Federico
Serra-Diaz, Josep M.
Sheil, Douglas
Shvidenko, Anatoly
Silva-Espejo, Javier
Silveira, Marcos
Singh, James
Sist, Plinio
Slik, Ferry
Sonké, Bonaventure
Souza, Alexandre F.
ter Steege, Hans
Stereńczak, Krzysztof
Svenning, Jens-Christian
Svoboda, Miroslav
Swanepoel, Ben
Targhetta, Natalia
Tchebakova, Nadja
Thomas, Raquel
Tikhonova, Elena
Umunay, Peter
Usoltsev, Vladimir
Valencia, Renato
Valladares, Fernando
van der Plas, Fons
Van Do, Tran
Van Nuland, Michael E.
Vasquez Martinez, Rodolfo
Verbeeck, Hans
Viana, Helder
Vibrans, Alexander C.
Vieira, Simone
von Gadow, Klaus
Wang, Hua-Feng
Watson, James
Werner, Gijsbert D. A.
Wittmann, Florian
Wortel, Verginia
Zagt, Roderick
Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Tomasz
Zhang, Chunyu
Zhao, Xiuhai
Zhu, Zhi-Xin
Zo-Bi, Irie Casimir
Maynard, Daniel S.
Crowther, Thomas W.
Date published
May 22, 2025
Abstract
Species’ traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. The extent to which traits of dominant and rare tree species differ remains untested across a broad environmental range, limiting our understanding of how species traits and the environment shape forest functional composition. We use a global dataset of tree composition of >22,000 forest plots and 11 traits of 1663 tree species to ask how locally dominant and rare species differ in their trait values, and how these differences are driven by climatic gradients in temperature and water availability in forest biomes across the globe. We find three consistent trait differences between locally dominant and rare species across all biomes; dominant species are taller, have softer wood and higher loading on the multivariate stem strategy axis (related to narrow tracheids and thick bark). The difference between traits of dominant and rare species is more strongly driven by temperature compared to water availability, as temperature might affect a larger number of traits. Therefore, climate change driven global temperature rise may have a strong effect on trait differences between dominant and rare tree species and may lead to changes in species abundances and therefore strong community reassembly.
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Priority 4: Accelerated Taxonomy
Journal title
Nature Communications
Volume
16
Article number
4773
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Place of publication
Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany
eISSN
2041-1723
Date accepted
May 2, 2025
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IF = 15.7 (2024)