Title: | Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests |
Authors: | Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane Phillips, Oliver L. Brienen, Roel J.W. Fauset, Sophie Sullivan, Martin J.P. Baker, Timothy R. Chao, Kuo Jung Feldpausch, Ted R. Gloor, Emanuel Higuchi, N. Houwing-Duistermaat, Jeanne Thomas, Raquel S. Toledo, Marisol Torres-Lezama, Armando Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela Van Der Heijden, Geertje M.F. van der Meer, Peter J. van der Hout, Peter Martínez, Rodolfo Vásquez Vieira, Simone Aparecida Cayo, Jeanneth Villalobos Lloyd, Jon Vos, Vincent A. Zagt, Roderick J. Zuidema, Pieter A. Galbraith, David R. Liu, Haiyan Malhi, Yadvinder Singh Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Júnior, Ben Hur Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel Poorter, L. Silveira, Marcos Torre, Emilio Vilanova Dávila, Esteban Álvarez Del Águila Pasquel, Jhon Almeida, Everton C. Alvarez, Loayza, Patricia Andrade, Ana C.S. Aragǎo, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira C.Cruz De Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro Arets, Eric J.M.M. Arroyo, Luzmila P. Aymard-C, Gerardo A. Baisie, Michel Baraloto, Christopher Camargo, Plínio Barbosa Barroso, Jorcely Blanc, Lilian Bonal, Damien Bongers, Frans Boot, René G.A. Brown, Foster I. Burban, Benoît T. Camargo, José Luís Campana Castro, Wendeson Moscoso, Victor Chama Chave, Jérôme Comiskey, James A. Valverde, Fernando Cornejo da Costa, Antonio Lola Cardozo, Nallaret Dávila Di Fiore, Anthony Dourdain, Aurélie Erwin, Terry L. Flores Llampazo, Gerardo Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia Herrera, Rafael A. Honorio Coronado, Euridice N. Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau Jimenez-Rojas, Eliana Killeen, Timothy J. Laurance, Susan G.W. Laurance, William F. Levesley, Aurora Lewis, Simon L. Ladvocat, Karina Liana Lisboa Melgaço Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela Lovejoy, Thomas E. Meir, Patrick W. Mendoza, Casimiro Morandi, Paulo Sérgio Neill, David A. Lima, Adriano José Nogueira Vargas, Percy Núñez Oliveira, Edmar Almeida de Camacho, Nadir Pallqui Pardo, Guido Peacock, Julie Pena-Claros, Marielos Peñuela-Mora, María Cristina Pickavance, Georgia C. Pipoly, John J. Pitman, Nigel C.A. Prieto, Adriana Pugh, Thomas A.M. Quesada, Carlos Alberto Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma Reis, Simone Matias de Almeida Rejou-Machain, Maxime Correa, Zorayda Restrepo Bayona, Lily Rodriguez Rudas, Agustín Salomão, Rafael Paiva Serrano, Julio Espejo, Javier Silva Silva, Natalino Singh, James Stahl, Clément Stropp, Juliana Swamy, Varun Talbot, Joey ter Steege, H. Terborgh, John W. |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Nature Communications |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 11, Número 1 |
Abstract: | The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots. While tree mortality rates vary greatly Amazon-wide, on average trees are as likely to die standing as they are broken or uprooted—modes of death with different ecological consequences. Species-level growth rate is the single most important predictor of tree death in Amazonia, with faster-growing species being at higher risk. Within species, however, the slowest-growing trees are at greatest risk while the effect of tree size varies across the basin. In the driest Amazonian region species-level bioclimatic distributional patterns also predict the risk of death, suggesting that these forests are experiencing climatic conditions beyond their adaptative limits. These results provide not only a holistic pan-Amazonian picture of tree death but large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth–survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality. © 2020, The Author(s). |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3 |
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