Rights statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Both, S. , Riutta, T. , Paine, C. E., Elias, D. M., Cruz, R. S., Jain, A. , Johnson, D. , Kritzler, U. H., Kuntz, M. , Majalap‐Lee, N. , Mielke, N. , Montoya Pillco, M. X., Ostle, N. J., Arn Teh, Y. , Malhi, Y. and Burslem, D. F. (2019), Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests. New Phytol, 221: 1853-1865. doi:10.1111/nph.15444 which has been published in final form at https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.15444 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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T1 - Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests
AU - Both, Sabine
AU - Riutta, Terhi
AU - Paine, C. E.Timothy
AU - Elias, Dafydd M.O.
AU - Cruz, R. S.
AU - Jain, Annuar
AU - Johnson, David
AU - Kritzler, Ully H.
AU - Kuntz, Marianne
AU - Majalap-Lee, Noreen
AU - Mielke, Nora
AU - Montoya Pillco, Milenka X.
AU - Ostle, Nicholas J.
AU - Arn Teh, Yit
AU - Malhi, Yadvinder
AU - Burslem, David F.R.P.
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Both, S. , Riutta, T. , Paine, C. E., Elias, D. M., Cruz, R. S., Jain, A. , Johnson, D. , Kritzler, U. H., Kuntz, M. , Majalap‐Lee, N. , Mielke, N. , Montoya Pillco, M. X., Ostle, N. J., Arn Teh, Y. , Malhi, Y. and Burslem, D. F. (2019), Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests. New Phytol, 221: 1853-1865. doi:10.1111/nph.15444 which has been published in final form at https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.15444 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Plant functional traits regulate ecosystem functions but little is known about how co-occurring gradients of land use and edaphic conditions influence their expression. We test how gradients of logging disturbance and soil properties relate to community-weighted mean traits in logged and old-growth tropical forests in Borneo. We studied 32 physical, chemical and physiological traits from 284 tree species in eight 1 ha plots and measured long-term soil nutrient supplies and plant-available nutrients. Logged plots had greater values for traits that drive carbon capture and growth, whilst old-growth forests had greater values for structural and persistence traits. Although disturbance was the primary driver of trait expression, soil nutrients explained a statistically independent axis of variation linked to leaf size and nutrient concentration. Soil characteristics influenced trait expression via nutrient availability, nutrient pools, and pH. Our finding, that traits have dissimilar responses to land use and soil resource availability, provides robust evidence for the need to consider the abiotic context of logging when predicting plant functional diversity across human-modified tropical forests. The detection of two independent axes was facilitated by the measurement of many more functional traits than have been examined in previous studies.
AB - Plant functional traits regulate ecosystem functions but little is known about how co-occurring gradients of land use and edaphic conditions influence their expression. We test how gradients of logging disturbance and soil properties relate to community-weighted mean traits in logged and old-growth tropical forests in Borneo. We studied 32 physical, chemical and physiological traits from 284 tree species in eight 1 ha plots and measured long-term soil nutrient supplies and plant-available nutrients. Logged plots had greater values for traits that drive carbon capture and growth, whilst old-growth forests had greater values for structural and persistence traits. Although disturbance was the primary driver of trait expression, soil nutrients explained a statistically independent axis of variation linked to leaf size and nutrient concentration. Soil characteristics influenced trait expression via nutrient availability, nutrient pools, and pH. Our finding, that traits have dissimilar responses to land use and soil resource availability, provides robust evidence for the need to consider the abiotic context of logging when predicting plant functional diversity across human-modified tropical forests. The detection of two independent axes was facilitated by the measurement of many more functional traits than have been examined in previous studies.
KW - anthropogenic disturbance
KW - Borneo
KW - functional diversity
KW - functional traits
KW - land use
KW - Rao's Q
KW - tropical rainforest
KW - variance partitioning
U2 - 10.1111/nph.15444
DO - 10.1111/nph.15444
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85053532305
VL - 221
SP - 1853
EP - 1865
JO - New Phytologist
JF - New Phytologist
SN - 0028-646X
IS - 4
ER -