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Title: Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro-topographic gradients
Authors: Oliveira, Rafael S.
Costa, Flávia Regina Capellotto
van Baalen, Emma Jan A.
Jonge, Arjen de
Bittencourt, Paulo R.L.
Almanza, Yanina
Barros, Fernanda de Vasconcellos
Cordoba, Edher C.
Fagundes, Marina V.
Garcia, Sabrina
Guimarães, Zilza Thayane Matos
Hertel, Mariana Fernandes
Schietti, Juliana
Rodrigues-Souza, Jefferson
Poorter, L.
Keywords: Angiosperm
Coexistence
Drought Resistance
Ecosystem Resilience
Environmental Gradient
Environmental Indicator
Forest Ecosystem
Functional Change
Phosphorus
Rainforest
Spatial Distribution
Topography
Tropical Forest
Vulnerability
Water Availability
Water Table
Amazonia
Magnoliophyta
Water
Phylogeny
Physiology
Rainforest
Species Difference
Tree
Xylem
Phylogeny
Rainforest
Species Specificity
Trees
Water
Xylem
Issue Date: 2019
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: New Phytologist
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 221, Número 3, Pags. 1457-1465
Abstract: Species distribution is strongly driven by local and global gradients in water availability but the underlying mechanisms are not clear. Vulnerability to xylem embolism (P 50 ) is a key trait that indicates how species cope with drought and might explain plant distribution patterns across environmental gradients. Here we address its role on species sorting along a hydro-topographical gradient in a central Amazonian rainforest and examine its variance at the community scale. We measured P 50 for 28 tree species, soil properties and estimated the hydrological niche of each species using an indicator of distance to the water table (HAND). We found a large hydraulic diversity, covering as much as 44% of the global angiosperm variation in P 50 . We show that P 50 : contributes to species segregation across a hydro-topographic gradient in the Amazon, and thus to species coexistence; is the result of repeated evolutionary adaptation within closely related taxa; is associated with species tolerance to P-poor soils, suggesting the evolution of a stress-tolerance syndrome to nutrients and drought; and is higher for trees in the valleys than uplands. The large observed hydraulic diversity and its association with topography has important implications for modelling and predicting forest and species resilience to climate change. © 2018 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2018 New Phytologist Trust
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1111/nph.15463
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