Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests
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Journal article
Creator (person)
ter Steege, Hans
Henkel, Terry W.
Helal, Nora
Marimon, Beatriz S.
Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur
Huth, Andreas
Groeneveld, Jürgen
Sabatier, Daniel
Coelho, Luiz de Souza
Filho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima
Salomão, Rafael P.
Amaral, Iêda Leão
Matos, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida
Castilho, Carolina V.
Phillips, Oliver L.
Guevara, Juan Ernesto
Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga
Cárdenas López, Dairon
Magnusson, William E.
Wittmann, Florian
Irume, Mariana Victória
Martins, Maria Pires
Guimarães, José Renan da Silva
Molino, Jean-François
Bánki, Olaf S.
Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez
Pitman, Nigel C. A.
Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo
Ramos, José Ferreira
Luize, Bruno Garcia
Moraes de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia
Núñez Vargas, Percy
Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire
Venticinque, Eduardo Martins
Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto
Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa
Terborgh, John
Casula, Katia Regina
Honorio Coronado, Euridice N.
Montero, Juan Carlos
Feldpausch, Ted R.
Duque, Alvaro
Costa, Flávia R. C.
Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño
Schöngart, Jochen
Killeen, Timothy J.
Vasquez, Rodolfo
Mostacedo, Bonifacio
Demarchi, Layon O.
Assis, Rafael L.
Baraloto, Chris
Engel, Julien
Petronelli, Pascal
Castellanos, Hernán
de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante
Quaresma, Adriano
Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni
Andrade, Ana
Camargo, José Luís
Laurance, Susan G. W.
Laurance, William F.
Rincón, Lorena M.
Schietti, Juliana
Sousa, Thaiane R.
de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle
Lopes, Maria Aparecida
Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima
Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo
Lima de Queiroz, Helder
Aymard C., Gerardo A.
Brienen, Roel
Revilla, Juan David Cardenas
Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat
Stevenson, Pablo R.
Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira
Duivenvoorden, Joost F.
Mogollón, Hugo F.
Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
Ferreira, Leandro Valle
Lozada, José Rafael
Comiskey, James A.
de Toledo, José Julio
Damasco, Gabriel
Dávila, Nállarett
Draper, Freddie
García-Villacorta, Roosevelt
Lopes, Aline
Vicentini, Alberto
Alonso, Alfonso
Dallmeier, Francisco
Gomes, Vitor H. F.
Lloyd, Jon
Neill, David
de Aguiar, Daniel Praia Portela
Arroyo, Luzmila
Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes
de Souza, Fernanda Coelho
do Amaral, Dário Dantas
Feeley, Kenneth J.
Gribel, Rogerio
Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti
Barlow, Jos
Berenguer, Erika
Ferreira, Joice
Fine, Paul V. A.
Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro
Jimenez, Eliana M.
Licona, Juan Carlos
Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina
Villa, Boris
Cerón, Carlos
Maas, Paul
Silveira, Marcos
Stropp, Juliana
Thomas, Raquel
Baker, Tim R.
Daly, Doug
Dexter, Kyle G.
Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau
Milliken, William
Pennington, Toby
Ríos Paredes, Marcos
Fuentes, Alfredo
Klitgaard, Bente
Pena, José Luis Marcelo
Peres, Carlos A.
Silman, Miles R.
Tello, J. Sebastián
Chave, Jerome
Cornejo Valverde, Fernando
Di Fiore, Anthony
Hilário, Renato Richard
Phillips, Juan Fernando
Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo
van Andel, Tinde R.
von Hildebrand, Patricio
Noronha, Janaína Costa
Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques
Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues
de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos
Carpanedo, Rainiellen de Sá
Dávila Doza, Hilda Paulette
Fonty, Émile
GómeZárate z, Ricardo
Gonzales, Therany
Gallardo Gonzales, George Pepe
Hoffman, Bruce
Junqueira, André Braga
Malhi, Yadvinder
Miranda, Ires Paula de Andrade
Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite
Prieto, Adriana
Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesus
Rudas, Agustín
Ruschel, Ademir R.
Silva, Natalino
Vela, César I. A.
Vos, Vincent Antoine
Zent, Egleé L.
Zent, Stanford
Weiss Albuquerque, Bianca
Cano, Angela
Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina
Correa, Diego F.
Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa
Flores, Bernardo Monteiro
Galbraith, David
Holmgren, Milena
Kalamandeen, Michelle
Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade
Oliveira, Alexandre A.
Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma
Rocha, Maira
Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
Sierra, Rodrigo
Tirado, Milton
Umaña Medina, Maria Natalia
van der Heijden, Geertje
Vilanova Torre, Emilio
Vriesendorp, Corine
Wang, Ophelia
Young, Kenneth R.
Ahuite Reategui, Manuel Augusto
Baider, Cláudia
Balslev, Henrik
Cárdenas, Sasha
Casas, Luisa Fernanda
Farfan-Rios, William
Ferreira, Cid
Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo
Mendoza, Casimiro
Mesones, Italo
Torres-Lezama, Armando
Giraldo, Ligia Estela Urrego
Villarroel, Daniel
Zagt, Roderick
Alexiades, Miguel N.
de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida
Garcia-Cabrera, Karina
Hernandez, Lionel
Palacios Cuenca, Walter
Pansini, Susamar
Pauletto, Daniela
Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy
Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe
Sandoval, Elvis H. Valderrama
Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis
Levesley, Aurora
Pickavance, Georgia
Melgaço, Karina
Date published
September 25, 2019
Abstract
Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such “monodominant” forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inventory plots from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing a simple defining metric of at least half of the trees ≥ 10 cm diameter belonging to one species, we found only a few occurrences of monodominance in Amazonia, and the phenomenon was not significantly linked to previously hypothesized life history traits such wood density, seed mass, ectomycorrhizal associations, or Rhizobium nodulation. In our analysis, coppicing (the formation of sprouts at the base of the tree or on roots) was the only trait significantly linked to monodominance. While at specific locales coppicing or ectomycorrhizal associations may confer a considerable advantage to a tree species and lead to its monodominance, very few species have these traits. Mining of the ATDN dataset suggests that monodominance is quite rare in Amazonia, and may be linked primarily to edaphic factors.
Journal title
Scientific Reports
Volume
9
Issue
1
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
eISSN
2045-2322
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