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ter Steege, H, Poorter, L, Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J, Fortunel, C, Magnusson, WE, Phillips, OL, Pos, E, Luize, BG, Baraloto, C, Guevara, JE, Endara, M-J, Baker, TR, Umaña, MN, van der Sande, M, Pombo, MM, McGlone, M, Draper, FC, do Amaral, IL, Coelho, LDS, Wittmann, F, Almeida Matos, FDD, Lima Filho, DDA, Salomão, RP, Castilho, CV, Carim, MDJV, Piedade, MTF, Sabatier, D, Molino, J-F, Demarchi, LO, Cardenas Revilla, JD, Schöngart, J, Irume, MV, Martins, MP, da Silva Guimarães, JR, Ramos, JF, Bánki, OS, Quaresma, AC, Pitman, NCA, Peres, CA, de Jesus Rodrigues, D, Hawes, JE, Almeida, EJ, Barbosa, LF, Cavalheiro, L, Santos, MCVD, Leão Novo, EMMD, Vargas, PN, Silva, TSF, Venticinque, EM, Manzatto, AG, Reis, NFC, Terborgh, J, Casula, KR, Honorio Coronado, EN, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Carlos Montero, J, De Souza, CR, Oliveira, MVND, Costa, FRC, Engel, J, Feldpausch, TR, Castaño Arboleda, N, Durgante, FM, Zartman, CE, Killeen, TJ, Marimon, BS, Marimon-Junior, BH, Vasquez, R, Mostacedo, B, Assis, RL, Amaral, DDD, Castellanos, H, Householder, JE, de Medeiros, MB, Simon, MF, Andrade, A, Camargo, JL, Laurance, SGW, Laurance, WF, Rincón, LM, Mori, GB, Schietti, J, Sousa, TR, de Sousa Farias, E, Lopes, MA, Magalhães, JLL, Nascimento, HEM, de Queiroz, HL, Vasconcelos, CC, Aymard C, GA, Brienen, R, Sousa Assis, PLD, Gris, D, Ribeiro, KAF, Stevenson, PR, Araujo-Murakami, A, Cintra, BBL, Feitosa, YO, Mogollón, HF, Silman, MR, Ferreira, LV, Lozada, JR, Comiskey, JA, de Toledo, JJ, Damasco, G, García-Villacorta, R, Lopes, A, Rios Paredes, M, Vicentini, A, Vieira, ICG, Cornejo Valverde, F, Alonso, A, Arroyo, L, Dallmeier, F, Gomes, VHF, Huari, WN, Neill, D, Peñuela Mora, MC, de Aguiar, DPP, Barbosa, FR, Bredin, YK, de Sá Carpanedo, R, Carvalho, FA, de Souza, FC, Feeley, KJ, Gribel, R, Haugaasen, T, Noronha, JC, Pansonato, MP, Pipoly, JJ
, Barlow, J, Berenguer, E, Silva, IBD, Ferreira, J, Ferreira, MJ, Fine, PVA, Guedes, MC, Levis, C, Carlos Licona, J, Zegarra, BEV, Vos, VA, Cerón, C, Fonty, É, Henkel, TW, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I, Silveira, M, Stropp, J, Thomas, R, Daly, D, Dexter, KG, Milliken, W, Molina, GP, Pennington, T, Albuquerque, BW, Campelo, W, Claros, AF, Klitgaard, B, Pena, JLM, Montenegro, LT, Tello, JS, Vriesendorp, C, Chave, J, Di Fiore, A, Hilário, RR, de Oliveira Pereira, L, Phillips, JF, Rivas-Torres, G, van Andel, TR, Hildebrand, PV, Balee, W, Barbosa, EM, Bonates, LCDM, Dávila Doza, HP, Zárate Gómez, R, Gonzales, GPG, Gonzales, T, Hoffman, B, Junqueira, AB, Malhi, Y, Miranda, IPDA, Pinto, LFM, Prieto, A, Rudas, A, Ruschel, AR, Silva, N, Vela, CIA, Zent, EL, Zent, S, Cano, A, Carrero Márquez, YA, Correa, DF, Costa, JBP, Flores, BM, Galbraith, D, Holmgren, M, Kalamandeen, M, Lobo, G, Mori Vargas, T, Nascimento, MT, Oliveira, AA, Ramirez-Angulo, H, Rocha, M, Scudeller, VV, Heijden, GVD, Torre, EV, Baider, C, Balslev, H, Cárdenas, S, Casas, LF, Farfan-Rios, W, Linares-Palomino, R, Mendoza, C, Mesones, I, Parada, GA, Torres-Lezama, A, Villarroel, D, Zagt, R, Alexiades, MN, de Oliveira, EA, Fortier, RP, Garcia-Cabrera, K, Hernandez, L, Cuenca, WP, Pansini, S, Pauletto, D, Arevalo, FR, Sampaio, AF, Valderrama Sandoval, EH, Gamarra, LV, Levesley, A & Pickavance, G 2025, '
Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests',
Communications Biology, vol. 8, no. 1, 355.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8APA
ter Steege, H., Poorter, L., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Fortunel, C., Magnusson, W. E., Phillips, O. L., Pos, E., Luize, B. G., Baraloto, C., Guevara, J. E., Endara, M.-J., Baker, T. R., Umaña, M. N., van der Sande, M., Pombo, M. M., McGlone, M., Draper, F. C., do Amaral, I. L., Coelho, L. D. S., ... Pickavance, G. (2025).
Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests.
Communications Biology,
8(1), Article 355.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8Vancouver
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@article{ee68d4155fce43eb878dc186856c6a72,
title = "Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests",
abstract = "Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a leaf economics spectrum reflecting slow to fast returns on investments in leaf nutrients and carbon. When species assemble to communities it is assumed that these spectra are filtered by the environment to produce community level functional composition. It is unknown what are the main drivers for community functional composition in a large area such as Amazonia. We use 13 functional traits, including wood density, seed mass, leaf characteristics, breeding system, nectar production, fruit type, and root characteristics of 812 tree genera (5211 species), and find that they describe two main axes found at the global scale. At community level, the first axis captures not only the {\textquoteleft}fast-slow spectrum{\textquoteright}, but also most size-related traits. Climate and disturbance explain a minor part of this variance compared to soil fertility. Forests on poor soils differ largely in terms of trait values from those on rich soils. Trait composition and soil fertility exert a strong influence on forest functioning: biomass and relative biomass production.",
author = "{ter Steege}, Hans and Lourens Poorter and Jes{\'u}s Aguirre-Guti{\'e}rrez and Claire Fortunel and Magnusson, {William E.} and Phillips, {Oliver L.} and Edwin Pos and Luize, {Bruno Garcia} and Chris Baraloto and Guevara, {Juan Ernesto} and Mar{\'i}a-Jos{\'e} Endara and Baker, {Tim R.} and Uma{\~n}a, {Maria Natalia} and {van der Sande}, Masha and Pombo, {Maihyra Marina} and Matt McGlone and Draper, {Freddie C.} and {do Amaral}, {I{\^e}da Le{\~a}o} and Coelho, {Luiz de Souza} and Florian Wittmann and {Almeida Matos}, {Francisca Dion{\'i}zia de} and {Lima Filho}, {Di{\'o}genes de Andrade} and Salom{\~a}o, {Rafael P.} and Castilho, {Carolina V.} and Carim, {Marcelo de Jesus Veiga} and Piedade, {Maria Teresa Fernandez} and Daniel Sabatier and Jean-Fran{\c c}ois Molino and Demarchi, {Layon O.} and {Cardenas Revilla}, {Juan David} and Jochen Sch{\"o}ngart and Irume, {Mariana Vict{\'o}ria} and Martins, {Maria Pires} and {da Silva Guimar{\~a}es}, {Jos{\'e} Renan} and Ramos, {Jos{\'e} Ferreira} and B{\'a}nki, {Olaf S.} and Quaresma, {Adriano Costa} and Pitman, {Nigel C. A.} and Peres, {Carlos A.} and {de Jesus Rodrigues}, Domingos and Hawes, {Joseph E.} and Almeida, {Everton Jos{\'e}} and Barbosa, {Luciane Ferreira} and Larissa Cavalheiro and Santos, {M{\'a}rcia Cl{\'e}ia Vilela dos} and {Le{\~a}o Novo}, {Evlyn M{\'a}rcia Moraes de} and Vargas, {Percy N{\'u}{\~n}ez} and Silva, {Thiago Sanna Freire} and Venticinque, {Eduardo Martins} and Manzatto, {Angelo Gilberto} and Reis, {Neidiane Farias Costa} and John Terborgh and Casula, {Katia Regina} and {Honorio Coronado}, {Euridice N.} and {Monteagudo Mendoza}, Abel and {Carlos Montero}, Juan and {De Souza}, {Cintia Rodrigues} and Oliveira, {Marcus Vinicio Neves de} and Costa, {Fl{\'a}via R. C.} and Julien Engel and Feldpausch, {Ted R.} and {Casta{\~n}o Arboleda}, Nicol{\'a}s and Durgante, {Fl{\'a}via Machado} and Zartman, {Charles Eugene} and Killeen, {Timothy J.} and Marimon, {Beatriz S.} and Marimon-Junior, {Ben Hur} and Rodolfo Vasquez and Bonifacio Mostacedo and Assis, {Rafael L.} and Amaral, {D{\'a}rio Dantas do} and Hern{\'a}n Castellanos and Householder, {John Ethan} and {de Medeiros}, {Marcelo Brilhante} and Simon, {Marcelo Fragomeni} and Ana Andrade and Camargo, {Jos{\'e} Lu{\'i}s} and Laurance, {Susan G. W.} and Laurance, {William F.} and Rinc{\'o}n, {Lorena Maniguaje} and Mori, {Gisele Biem} and Juliana Schietti and Sousa, {Thaiane R.} and {de Sousa Farias}, Emanuelle and Lopes, {Maria Aparecida} and Magalh{\~a}es, {Jos{\'e} Leonardo Lima} and Nascimento, {Henrique Eduardo Mendon{\c c}a} and {de Queiroz}, {Helder Lima} and Vasconcelos, {Caroline C.} and {Aymard C}, {Gerardo A.} and Roel Brienen and {Sousa Assis}, {P{\^a}mella Leite de} and Darlene Gris and Ribeiro, {Karoline Aparecida Felix} and Stevenson, {Pablo R.} and Alejandro Araujo-Murakami and Cintra, {Bruno Bar{\c c}ante Ladvocat} and Feitosa, {Yuri Oliveira} and Mogoll{\'o}n, {Hugo F.} and Silman, {Miles R.} and Ferreira, {Leandro Valle} and Lozada, {Jos{\'e} Rafael} and Comiskey, {James A.} and {de Toledo}, {Jos{\'e} Julio} and Gabriel Damasco and Roosevelt Garc{\'i}a-Villacorta and Aline Lopes and {Rios Paredes}, Marcos and Alberto Vicentini and Vieira, {Ima C{\'e}lia Guimar{\~a}es} and {Cornejo Valverde}, Fernando and Alfonso Alonso and Luzmila Arroyo and Francisco Dallmeier and Gomes, {Vitor H. F.} and Huari, {William Nauray} and David Neill and {Pe{\~n}uela Mora}, {Maria Cristina} and {de Aguiar}, {Daniel P. P.} and Barbosa, {Fl{\'a}via Rodrigues} and Bredin, {Yennie K.} and {de S{\'a} Carpanedo}, Rainiellen and Carvalho, {Fernanda Antunes} and {de Souza}, {Fernanda Coelho} and Feeley, {Kenneth J.} and Rogerio Gribel and Torbj{\o}rn Haugaasen and Noronha, {Jana{\'i}na Costa} and Pansonato, {Marcelo Petratti} and Pipoly, {John J.} and Jos Barlow and Erika Berenguer and Silva, {Izaias Brasil da} and Joice Ferreira and Ferreira, {Maria Julia} and Fine, {Paul V. A.} and Guedes, {Marcelino Carneiro} and Carolina Levis and {Carlos Licona}, Juan and Zegarra, {Boris Eduardo Villa} and Vos, {Vincent Antoine} and Carlos Cer{\'o}n and {\'E}mile Fonty and Henkel, {Terry W.} and Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco and Marcos Silveira and Juliana Stropp and Raquel Thomas and Doug Daly and Dexter, {Kyle G.} and William Milliken and Molina, {Guido Pardo} and Toby Pennington and Albuquerque, {Bianca Weiss} and Wegliane Campelo and Claros, {Alfredo Fuentes} and Bente Klitgaard and Pena, {Jos{\'e} Luis Marcelo} and Montenegro, {Luis Torres} and Tello, {J. Sebasti{\'a}n} and Corine Vriesendorp and Jerome Chave and {Di Fiore}, Anthony and Hil{\'a}rio, {Renato Richard} and {de Oliveira Pereira}, Luciana and Phillips, {Juan Fernando} and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and {van Andel}, {Tinde R.} and Hildebrand, {Patricio von} and William Balee and Barbosa, {Edelcilio Marques} and Bonates, {Luiz Carlos de Matos} and {D{\'a}vila Doza}, {Hilda Paulette} and {Z{\'a}rate G{\'o}mez}, Ricardo and Gonzales, {George Pepe Gallardo} and Therany Gonzales and Bruce Hoffman and Junqueira, {Andr{\'e} Braga} and Yadvinder Malhi and Miranda, {Ires Paula de Andrade} and Pinto, {Linder Felipe Mozombite} and Adriana Prieto and Agust{\'i}n Rudas and Ruschel, {Ademir R.} and Natalino Silva and Vela, {C{\'e}sar I. A.} and Zent, {Egle{\'e} L.} and Stanford Zent and Angela Cano and {Carrero M{\'a}rquez}, {Yrma Andreina} and Correa, {Diego F.} and Costa, {Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa} and Flores, {Bernardo Monteiro} and David Galbraith and Milena Holmgren and Michelle Kalamandeen and Guilherme Lobo and {Mori Vargas}, Tony and Nascimento, {Marcelo Trindade} and Oliveira, {Alexandre A.} and Hirma Ramirez-Angulo and Maira Rocha and Scudeller, {Veridiana Vizoni} and Heijden, {Geertje van der} and Torre, {Emilio Vilanova} and Cl{\'a}udia Baider and Henrik Balslev and Sasha C{\'a}rdenas and Casas, {Luisa Fernanda} and William Farfan-Rios and Reynaldo Linares-Palomino and Casimiro Mendoza and Italo Mesones and Parada, {Germaine Alexander} and Armando Torres-Lezama and Daniel Villarroel and Roderick Zagt and Alexiades, {Miguel N.} and {de Oliveira}, {Edmar Almeida} and Fortier, {Riley P.} and Karina Garcia-Cabrera and Lionel Hernandez and Cuenca, {Walter Palacios} and Susamar Pansini and Daniela Pauletto and Arevalo, {Freddy Ramirez} and Sampaio, {Adeilza Felipe} and {Valderrama Sandoval}, {Elvis H.} and Gamarra, {Luis Valenzuela} and Aurora Levesley and Georgia Pickavance",
year = "2025",
month = mar,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8",
language = "English",
volume = "8",
journal = "Communications Biology",
issn = "2399-3642",
publisher = "Nature Research",
number = "1",
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AU - ter Steege, Hans
AU - Poorter, Lourens
AU - Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús
AU - Fortunel, Claire
AU - Magnusson, William E.
AU - Phillips, Oliver L.
AU - Pos, Edwin
AU - Luize, Bruno Garcia
AU - Baraloto, Chris
AU - Guevara, Juan Ernesto
AU - Endara, María-José
AU - Baker, Tim R.
AU - Umaña, Maria Natalia
AU - van der Sande, Masha
AU - Pombo, Maihyra Marina
AU - McGlone, Matt
AU - Draper, Freddie C.
AU - do Amaral, Iêda Leão
AU - Coelho, Luiz de Souza
AU - Wittmann, Florian
AU - Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia de
AU - Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade
AU - Salomão, Rafael P.
AU - Castilho, Carolina V.
AU - Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga
AU - Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez
AU - Sabatier, Daniel
AU - Molino, Jean-François
AU - Demarchi, Layon O.
AU - Cardenas Revilla, Juan David
AU - Schöngart, Jochen
AU - Irume, Mariana Victória
AU - Martins, Maria Pires
AU - da Silva Guimarães, José Renan
AU - Ramos, José Ferreira
AU - Bánki, Olaf S.
AU - Quaresma, Adriano Costa
AU - Pitman, Nigel C. A.
AU - Peres, Carlos A.
AU - de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos
AU - Hawes, Joseph E.
AU - Almeida, Everton José
AU - Barbosa, Luciane Ferreira
AU - Cavalheiro, Larissa
AU - Santos, Márcia Cléia Vilela dos
AU - Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de
AU - Vargas, Percy Núñez
AU - Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire
AU - Venticinque, Eduardo Martins
AU - Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto
AU - Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa
AU - Terborgh, John
AU - Casula, Katia Regina
AU - Honorio Coronado, Euridice N.
AU - Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel
AU - Carlos Montero, Juan
AU - De Souza, Cintia Rodrigues
AU - Oliveira, Marcus Vinicio Neves de
AU - Costa, Flávia R. C.
AU - Engel, Julien
AU - Feldpausch, Ted R.
AU - Castaño Arboleda, Nicolás
AU - Durgante, Flávia Machado
AU - Zartman, Charles Eugene
AU - Killeen, Timothy J.
AU - Marimon, Beatriz S.
AU - Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur
AU - Vasquez, Rodolfo
AU - Mostacedo, Bonifacio
AU - Assis, Rafael L.
AU - Amaral, Dário Dantas do
AU - Castellanos, Hernán
AU - Householder, John Ethan
AU - de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante
AU - Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni
AU - Andrade, Ana
AU - Camargo, José Luís
AU - Laurance, Susan G. W.
AU - Laurance, William F.
AU - Rincón, Lorena Maniguaje
AU - Mori, Gisele Biem
AU - Schietti, Juliana
AU - Sousa, Thaiane R.
AU - de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle
AU - Lopes, Maria Aparecida
AU - Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima
AU - Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça
AU - de Queiroz, Helder Lima
AU - Vasconcelos, Caroline C.
AU - Aymard C, Gerardo A.
AU - Brienen, Roel
AU - Sousa Assis, Pâmella Leite de
AU - Gris, Darlene
AU - Ribeiro, Karoline Aparecida Felix
AU - Stevenson, Pablo R.
AU - Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
AU - Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat
AU - Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira
AU - Mogollón, Hugo F.
AU - Silman, Miles R.
AU - Ferreira, Leandro Valle
AU - Lozada, José Rafael
AU - Comiskey, James A.
AU - de Toledo, José Julio
AU - Damasco, Gabriel
AU - García-Villacorta, Roosevelt
AU - Lopes, Aline
AU - Rios Paredes, Marcos
AU - Vicentini, Alberto
AU - Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
AU - Cornejo Valverde, Fernando
AU - Alonso, Alfonso
AU - Arroyo, Luzmila
AU - Dallmeier, Francisco
AU - Gomes, Vitor H. F.
AU - Huari, William Nauray
AU - Neill, David
AU - Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina
AU - de Aguiar, Daniel P. P.
AU - Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues
AU - Bredin, Yennie K.
AU - de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen
AU - Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes
AU - de Souza, Fernanda Coelho
AU - Feeley, Kenneth J.
AU - Gribel, Rogerio
AU - Haugaasen, Torbjørn
AU - Noronha, Janaína Costa
AU - Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti
AU - Pipoly, John J.
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Berenguer, Erika
AU - Silva, Izaias Brasil da
AU - Ferreira, Joice
AU - Ferreira, Maria Julia
AU - Fine, Paul V. A.
AU - Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro
AU - Levis, Carolina
AU - Carlos Licona, Juan
AU - Zegarra, Boris Eduardo Villa
AU - Vos, Vincent Antoine
AU - Cerón, Carlos
AU - Fonty, Émile
AU - Henkel, Terry W.
AU - Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau
AU - Silveira, Marcos
AU - Stropp, Juliana
AU - Thomas, Raquel
AU - Daly, Doug
AU - Dexter, Kyle G.
AU - Milliken, William
AU - Molina, Guido Pardo
AU - Pennington, Toby
AU - Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss
AU - Campelo, Wegliane
AU - Claros, Alfredo Fuentes
AU - Klitgaard, Bente
AU - Pena, José Luis Marcelo
AU - Montenegro, Luis Torres
AU - Tello, J. Sebastián
AU - Vriesendorp, Corine
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AU - van Andel, Tinde R.
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AU - Balee, William
AU - Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques
AU - Bonates, Luiz Carlos de Matos
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AU - Zárate Gómez, Ricardo
AU - Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo
AU - Gonzales, Therany
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AU - Malhi, Yadvinder
AU - Miranda, Ires Paula de Andrade
AU - Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite
AU - Prieto, Adriana
AU - Rudas, Agustín
AU - Ruschel, Ademir R.
AU - Silva, Natalino
AU - Vela, César I. A.
AU - Zent, Egleé L.
AU - Zent, Stanford
AU - Cano, Angela
AU - Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina
AU - Correa, Diego F.
AU - Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa
AU - Flores, Bernardo Monteiro
AU - Galbraith, David
AU - Holmgren, Milena
AU - Kalamandeen, Michelle
AU - Lobo, Guilherme
AU - Mori Vargas, Tony
AU - Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade
AU - Oliveira, Alexandre A.
AU - Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma
AU - Rocha, Maira
AU - Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
AU - Heijden, Geertje van der
AU - Torre, Emilio Vilanova
AU - Baider, Cláudia
AU - Balslev, Henrik
AU - Cárdenas, Sasha
AU - Casas, Luisa Fernanda
AU - Farfan-Rios, William
AU - Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo
AU - Mendoza, Casimiro
AU - Mesones, Italo
AU - Parada, Germaine Alexander
AU - Torres-Lezama, Armando
AU - Villarroel, Daniel
AU - Zagt, Roderick
AU - Alexiades, Miguel N.
AU - de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida
AU - Fortier, Riley P.
AU - Garcia-Cabrera, Karina
AU - Hernandez, Lionel
AU - Cuenca, Walter Palacios
AU - Pansini, Susamar
AU - Pauletto, Daniela
AU - Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez
AU - Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe
AU - Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H.
AU - Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela
AU - Levesley, Aurora
AU - Pickavance, Georgia
PY - 2025/3/3
Y1 - 2025/3/3
N2 - Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a leaf economics spectrum reflecting slow to fast returns on investments in leaf nutrients and carbon. When species assemble to communities it is assumed that these spectra are filtered by the environment to produce community level functional composition. It is unknown what are the main drivers for community functional composition in a large area such as Amazonia. We use 13 functional traits, including wood density, seed mass, leaf characteristics, breeding system, nectar production, fruit type, and root characteristics of 812 tree genera (5211 species), and find that they describe two main axes found at the global scale. At community level, the first axis captures not only the ‘fast-slow spectrum’, but also most size-related traits. Climate and disturbance explain a minor part of this variance compared to soil fertility. Forests on poor soils differ largely in terms of trait values from those on rich soils. Trait composition and soil fertility exert a strong influence on forest functioning: biomass and relative biomass production.
AB - Plants cope with the environment by displaying large phenotypic variation. Two spectra of global plant form and function have been identified: a size spectrum from small to tall species with increasing stem tissue density, leaf size, and seed mass; a leaf economics spectrum reflecting slow to fast returns on investments in leaf nutrients and carbon. When species assemble to communities it is assumed that these spectra are filtered by the environment to produce community level functional composition. It is unknown what are the main drivers for community functional composition in a large area such as Amazonia. We use 13 functional traits, including wood density, seed mass, leaf characteristics, breeding system, nectar production, fruit type, and root characteristics of 812 tree genera (5211 species), and find that they describe two main axes found at the global scale. At community level, the first axis captures not only the ‘fast-slow spectrum’, but also most size-related traits. Climate and disturbance explain a minor part of this variance compared to soil fertility. Forests on poor soils differ largely in terms of trait values from those on rich soils. Trait composition and soil fertility exert a strong influence on forest functioning: biomass and relative biomass production.
U2 - 10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8
DO - 10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
JO - Communications Biology
JF - Communications Biology
SN - 2399-3642
IS - 1
M1 - 355
ER -
