Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees
Survival rates of large trees determine forest biomass dynamics. Survival rates of small trees have been linked to mechanisms that maintain biodiversity across tropical forests. How species survival rates change with size offers insight into the links between biodiversity and ecosystem function acro...
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| author | Johnson, Daniel J. Needham, Jessica Xu, Chonggang Massoud, Elias C. Davies, Stuart J. Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh Chambers, Jeffery Q. Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao Chiang, Jyh-Min Chuyong, George B. Condit, Richard Cordell, Susan Fletcher, Christine Giardina, Christian P. Giambelluca, Thomas W. Gunatilleke, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Hsieh, Chang-Fu Hubbell, Stephen Inman-Narahari, Faith Kassim, Abdul Rahman Katabuchi, Masatoshi Kenfack, David Litton, Creighton M. Lum, Shawn Mohamad, Mohizah Nasardin, Musalmah Ong, Perry S. Ostertag, Rebecca Sack, Lawren Swenson, Nathan G. Sun, I Fang Tan, Sylvester Thomas, Duncan W. Thompson, Jill Umaña, Maria Natalia Uriarte, Maria Valencia, Renato Yap, Sandra Zimmerman, Jess McDowell, Nate G. McMahon, Sean M. |
| author2 | Asian School of the Environment |
| author_facet | Asian School of the Environment Johnson, Daniel J. Needham, Jessica Xu, Chonggang Massoud, Elias C. Davies, Stuart J. Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh Chambers, Jeffery Q. Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao Chiang, Jyh-Min Chuyong, George B. Condit, Richard Cordell, Susan Fletcher, Christine Giardina, Christian P. Giambelluca, Thomas W. Gunatilleke, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Hsieh, Chang-Fu Hubbell, Stephen Inman-Narahari, Faith Kassim, Abdul Rahman Katabuchi, Masatoshi Kenfack, David Litton, Creighton M. Lum, Shawn Mohamad, Mohizah Nasardin, Musalmah Ong, Perry S. Ostertag, Rebecca Sack, Lawren Swenson, Nathan G. Sun, I Fang Tan, Sylvester Thomas, Duncan W. Thompson, Jill Umaña, Maria Natalia Uriarte, Maria Valencia, Renato Yap, Sandra Zimmerman, Jess McDowell, Nate G. McMahon, Sean M. |
| author_sort | Johnson, Daniel J. |
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| description | Survival rates of large trees determine forest biomass dynamics. Survival rates of small trees have been linked to mechanisms that maintain biodiversity across tropical forests. How species survival rates change with size offers insight into the links between biodiversity and ecosystem function across tropical forests. We tested patterns of size-dependent tree survival across the tropics using data from 1,781 species and over 2 million individuals to assess whether tropical forests can be characterized by size-dependent life-history survival strategies. We found that species were classifiable into four 'survival modes' that explain life-history variation that shapes carbon cycling and the relative abundance within forests. Frequently collected functional traits, such as wood density, leaf mass per area and seed mass, were not generally predictive of the survival modes of species. Mean annual temperature and cumulative water deficit predicted the proportion of biomass of survival modes, indicating important links between evolutionary strategies, climate and carbon cycling. The application of survival modes in demographic simulations predicted biomass change across forest sites. Our results reveal globally identifiable size-dependent survival strategies that differ across diverse systems in a consistent way. The abundance of survival modes and interaction with climate ultimately determine forest structure, carbon storage in biomass and future forest trajectories. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1409402020-06-03T03:02:08Z Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees Johnson, Daniel J. Needham, Jessica Xu, Chonggang Massoud, Elias C. Davies, Stuart J. Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh Chambers, Jeffery Q. Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao Chiang, Jyh-Min Chuyong, George B. Condit, Richard Cordell, Susan Fletcher, Christine Giardina, Christian P. Giambelluca, Thomas W. Gunatilleke, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Hsieh, Chang-Fu Hubbell, Stephen Inman-Narahari, Faith Kassim, Abdul Rahman Katabuchi, Masatoshi Kenfack, David Litton, Creighton M. Lum, Shawn Mohamad, Mohizah Nasardin, Musalmah Ong, Perry S. Ostertag, Rebecca Sack, Lawren Swenson, Nathan G. Sun, I Fang Tan, Sylvester Thomas, Duncan W. Thompson, Jill Umaña, Maria Natalia Uriarte, Maria Valencia, Renato Yap, Sandra Zimmerman, Jess McDowell, Nate G. McMahon, Sean M. Asian School of the Environment Science::General Carbon Biomass Survival rates of large trees determine forest biomass dynamics. Survival rates of small trees have been linked to mechanisms that maintain biodiversity across tropical forests. How species survival rates change with size offers insight into the links between biodiversity and ecosystem function across tropical forests. We tested patterns of size-dependent tree survival across the tropics using data from 1,781 species and over 2 million individuals to assess whether tropical forests can be characterized by size-dependent life-history survival strategies. We found that species were classifiable into four 'survival modes' that explain life-history variation that shapes carbon cycling and the relative abundance within forests. Frequently collected functional traits, such as wood density, leaf mass per area and seed mass, were not generally predictive of the survival modes of species. Mean annual temperature and cumulative water deficit predicted the proportion of biomass of survival modes, indicating important links between evolutionary strategies, climate and carbon cycling. The application of survival modes in demographic simulations predicted biomass change across forest sites. Our results reveal globally identifiable size-dependent survival strategies that differ across diverse systems in a consistent way. The abundance of survival modes and interaction with climate ultimately determine forest structure, carbon storage in biomass and future forest trajectories. 2020-06-03T03:02:08Z 2020-06-03T03:02:08Z 2018 Journal Article Johnson, D. J., Needham, J., Xu, C., Massoud, E. C., Davies, S. J., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., . . . McMahon, S. M. (2018). Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(9), 1436-1442. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0626-z 2397-334X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140940 10.1038/s41559-018-0626-z 30104751 2-s2.0-85052154355 9 2 1436 1442 en Nature Ecology and Evolution © 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Science::General Carbon Biomass Johnson, Daniel J. Needham, Jessica Xu, Chonggang Massoud, Elias C. Davies, Stuart J. Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J. Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh Chambers, Jeffery Q. Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao Chiang, Jyh-Min Chuyong, George B. Condit, Richard Cordell, Susan Fletcher, Christine Giardina, Christian P. Giambelluca, Thomas W. Gunatilleke, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Hsieh, Chang-Fu Hubbell, Stephen Inman-Narahari, Faith Kassim, Abdul Rahman Katabuchi, Masatoshi Kenfack, David Litton, Creighton M. Lum, Shawn Mohamad, Mohizah Nasardin, Musalmah Ong, Perry S. Ostertag, Rebecca Sack, Lawren Swenson, Nathan G. Sun, I Fang Tan, Sylvester Thomas, Duncan W. Thompson, Jill Umaña, Maria Natalia Uriarte, Maria Valencia, Renato Yap, Sandra Zimmerman, Jess McDowell, Nate G. McMahon, Sean M. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees |
| title | Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees |
| title_full | Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees |
| title_fullStr | Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees |
| title_short | Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees |
| title_sort | climate sensitive size dependent survival in tropical trees |
| topic | Science::General Carbon Biomass |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140940 |
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