Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

D.L.M Cooper; S.L Lewis; M.J.P Sullivan; P.I Prado; H ter Steege; N Barbier; F Slik; B Sonké; C.E.N Ewango; S Adu-Bredu; K Affum-Baffoe; D.P.P de Aguiar; M.A Ahuite Reategui; S.-I Aiba; B.W Albuquerque; F.D de Almeida Matos; A Alonso; C.A Amani; D.D do Amaral; I.L do Amaral; T.R van Andel; A Andrade; I.P de Andrade Miranda; I.B Angoboy; A Araujo-Murakami; N.C Arboleda; L Arroyo; P Ashton; G.A Aymard C.; C Baider; T.R Baker; M.P.B Balinga; H Balslev; L.F Banin; O.S Bánki; C Baraloto; E.M Barbosa; F.R Barbosa; J Barlow; J.-F Bastin; H Beeckman; S Begne; N.N Bengone; E Berenguer; N Berry; R Bitariho; P Boeckx; J Bogaert; B Bonyoma; P Boundja; N Bourland; F.B Bosela; F Brambach; R Brienen; D.F.R.P Burslem; J.L Camargo; W Campelo; A Cano; S Cárdenas; D Cárdenas López; R.D.S Carpanedo; Y.A Carrero Márquez; F.A Carvalho; L.F Casas; H Castellanos; C.V Castilho; C Cerón; C.A Chapman; J Chave; P Chhang; W Chutipong; G.B Chuyong; B.B.L Cintra; C.J Clark; F Coelho de Souza; J.A Comiskey; D.A Coomes; F Cornejo Valverde; D.F Correa; F.R.C Costa; J.B.P Costa; P Couteron; H Culmsee; A Cuni-Sanchez; F Dallmeier; G Damasco; G Dauby; N Dávila; H.P.D Doza; J.D.T De Alban; R.L de Assis; C De Canniere; T De Haulleville; M de Jesus Veiga Carim; L.O Demarchi; K.G Dexter; A Di Fiore; H.H.M Din; M.I Disney; B.Y Djiofack; M.-N.K Djuikouo; T.V Do; J.-L Doucet; F.C Draper; V Droissart; J.F Duivenvoorden; J Engel; V Estienne; W Farfan-Rios; S Fauset; K.J Feeley; Y.O Feitosa; T.R Feldpausch; C Ferreira; J Ferreira; L.V Ferreira; C.D Fletcher; B.M Flores; A Fofanah; E.G Foli; E Fonty; G.M Fredriksson; A Fuentes; D Galbraith; G.P.G Gonzales; K Garcia-Cabrera; R García-Villacorta; V.H.F Gomes; R.Z Gómez; T Gonzales; R Gribel; M.C Guedes; J.E Guevara; K.R Hakeem; J.S Hall; K.C Hamer; A.C Hamilton; D.J Harris; R.D Harrison; T.B Hart; A Hector; T.W Henkel; J Herbohn; M.B.N Hockemba; B Hoffman; M Holmgren; E.N Honorio Coronado; I Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; W Hubau; N Imai; M.V Irume; P.A Jansen; K.J Jeffery; E.M Jimenez; T Jucker; A.B Junqueira; M Kalamandeen; N.G Kamdem; K Kartawinata; E Kasongo Yakusu; J.M Katembo; E Kearsley; D Kenfack; M Kessler; T.T Khaing; T.J Killeen; K Kitayama; B Klitgaard; N Labrière; Y Laumonier; S.G.W Laurance; W.F Laurance; F Laurent; T.C Le; T.T Le; M.E Leal; E.M Leão de Moraes Novo; A Levesley; M.B Libalah; J.C Licona; D.D.A Lima Filho; J.A Lindsell; A Lopes; M.A Lopes; J.C Lovett; R Lowe; J.R Lozada; X Lu; N.K Luambua; B.G Luize; P Maas; J.L.L Magalhães; W.E Magnusson; N.P.D Mahayani; J.-R Makana; Y Malhi; L Maniguaje Rincón; A Mansor; A.G Manzatto; B.S Marimon; B.H Marimon-Junior; A.R Marshall; M.P Martins; F.M Mbayu; M.B de Medeiros; I Mesones; F Metali; V Mihindou; J Millet; W Milliken; H.F Mogollón; J.-F Molino; M.N Mohd. Said; A.M Mendoza; J.C Montero; S Moore; B Mostacedo; L.F Mozombite Pinto; S.A Mukul; P.K.T Munishi; H Nagamasu; H.E.M Nascimento; M.T Nascimento; D Neill; R Nilus; J.C Noronha; L Nsenga; P Núñez Vargas; L Ojo; A.A Oliveira; E.A de Oliveira; F.E Ondo; W Palacios Cuenca; S Pansini; M.P Pansonato; M.R Paredes; E Paudel; D Pauletto; R.G Pearson; J.L.R Pena; R.T Pennington; C.A Peres; A Permana; P Petronelli; M.C Peñuela Mora; J.F Phillips; O.L Phillips; G Pickavance; M.T.F Piedade; N.C.A Pitman; P Ploton; A Popelier; J.R Poulsen; A Prieto; R.B Primack; H Priyadi; L Qie; A.C Quaresma; H.L de Queiroz; H Ramirez-Angulo; J.F Ramos; N.F.C Reis; J Reitsma; J.D.C Revilla; T Riutta; G Rivas-Torres; I Robiansyah; M Rocha; D.D.J Rodrigues; M.E Rodriguez-Ronderos; F Rovero; A.H Rozak; A Rudas; E Rutishauser; D Sabatier; L.B Sagang; A.F Sampaio; I Samsoedin; M Satdichanh; J Schietti; J Schöngart; V.V Scudeller; N Seuaturien; D Sheil; R Sierra; M.R Silman; T.S.F Silva; J.R da Silva Guimarães; M Simo-Droissart; M.F Simon; P Sist; T.R Sousa; E de Sousa Farias; L de Souza Coelho; D.V Spracklen; S.M Stas; R Steinmetz; P.R Stevenson; J Stropp; R.S Sukri; T.C.H Sunderland; E Suzuki; M.D Swaine; J Tang; J Taplin; D.M Taylor; J Terborgh; N Texier; I Theilade; D.W Thomas; R Thomas; S.C Thomas; M Tirado; B Toirambe; J.J de Toledo; K.W Tomlinson; A Torres-Lezama; H.D Tran; J Tshibamba Mukendi; R.D Tumaneng; M.N Umaña; P.M Umunay; L.E Urrego Giraldo; E.H Valderrama Sandoval; L Valenzuela Gamarra; T.R Van Andel; M van de Bult; J van de Pol; G van der Heijden; R Vasquez; C.I.A Vela; E.M Venticinque; H Verbeeck; R.K.A Veridiano; A Vicentini; I.C.G Vieira; E Vilanova Torre; D Villarroel; B.E Villa Zegarra; J Vleminckx; P von Hildebrand; V.A Vos; C Vriesendorp; E.L Webb; L.J.T White; S Wich; F Wittmann; R Zagt; R Zang; C.E Zartman; L Zemagho; E.L Zent; S Zent

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Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

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Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

D.L.M Cooper, S.L Lewis, M.J.P Sullivan, P.I Prado, H ter Steege, N Barbier, F Slik, B Sonké, C.E.N Ewango, S Adu-Bredu, …

2024-01-10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z

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Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations1,2,3,4,5,6 in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% of the tropical trees in these regions, respectively. Extrapolating across all closed-canopy tropical forests, we estimate that just 1,053 species comprise half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm. Despite differing biogeographic, climatic and anthropogenic histories7, we find notably consistent patterns of common species and species abundance distributions across the continents. This suggests that fundamental mechanisms of tree community assembly may apply to all tropical forests. Resampling analyses show that the most common species are likely to belong to a manageable list of known species, enabling targeted efforts to understand their ecology. Although they do not detract from the importance of rare species, our results open new opportunities to understand the world’s most diverse forests, including modelling their response to environmental change, by focusing on the common species that constitute the majority of their trees.

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Title: Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities
Creators: D.L.M Cooper - University College London
S.L Lewis - University College London
M.J.P Sullivan - University of Leeds
P.I Prado - Universidade de São Paulo
H ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
N Barbier - University of Montpellier
F Slik - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
B Sonké
C.E.N Ewango - Université de Kisangani
S Adu-Bredu
K Affum-Baffoe
D.P.P de Aguiar
M.A Ahuite Reategui
S.-I Aiba - Hokkaido University
B.W Albuquerque - National Institute of Amazonian Research
F.D de Almeida Matos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
A Alonso - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
C.A Amani - Center for International Forestry Research
D.D do Amaral
I.L do Amaral
T.R van Andel - Wageningen University & Research
A Andrade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
I.P de Andrade Miranda - National Institute of Amazonian Research
I.B Angoboy - National Institute of Biomedical Research
A Araujo-Murakami
N.C Arboleda - Instituto Sinchi
L Arroyo - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
P Ashton - Harvard University Press
G.A Aymard C.
C Baider - Ministry of Agro Industry and Food Security
T.R Baker - University of Leeds
M.P.B Balinga - Ghana Education Service
H Balslev - Aarhus University
L.F Banin - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
O.S Bánki - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
C Baraloto - Florida International University
E.M Barbosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
F.R Barbosa - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
J Barlow - Lancaster University
J.-F Bastin - University of Liège
H Beeckman - Royal Museum for Central Africa
S Begne
N.N Bengone - Ministre de la Forêt,de la Mer et de l'Environnement
E Berenguer - Lancaster University
N Berry
R Bitariho - Mbarara University of Science and Technology
P Boeckx - Ghent University
J Bogaert - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
B Bonyoma
P Boundja - Center for International Forestry Research
N Bourland - Royal Museum for Central Africa
F.B Bosela - Université de Kisangani
F Brambach - University of Göttingen
R Brienen - University of Leeds
D.F.R.P Burslem - University of Aberdeen
J.L Camargo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
W Campelo - Universidade Federal do Amapá
A Cano - Universidad de Los Andes
S Cárdenas - Universidad de Los Andes
D Cárdenas López
R.D.S Carpanedo
Y.A Carrero Márquez
F.A Carvalho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
L.F Casas - Universidad de Los Andes
H Castellanos - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
C.V Castilho
C Cerón - Central University of Ecuador
C.A Chapman - Vancouver Island University
J Chave - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
P Chhang
W Chutipong - King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
G.B Chuyong - University of Buea
B.B.L Cintra - Instituto de Botânica
C.J Clark - Duke University
F Coelho de Souza
J.A Comiskey - National Park Service
D.A Coomes - University of Cambridge
F Cornejo Valverde
D.F Correa - Universidad de Los Andes
F.R.C Costa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
J.B.P Costa - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
P Couteron
H Culmsee
A Cuni-Sanchez
F Dallmeier - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
G Damasco - University of Gothenburg
G Dauby
N Dávila - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
H.P.D Doza
J.D.T De Alban - National University of Singapore
R.L de Assis - Vale Technological Institute
C De Canniere - Université Libre de Bruxelles
T De Haulleville - Royal Museum for Central Africa
M de Jesus Veiga Carim - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
L.O Demarchi - National Institute of Amazonian Research
K.G Dexter - University of Edinburgh
A Di Fiore - The University of Texas at Austin
H.H.M Din - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
M.I Disney - University College London
B.Y Djiofack - Royal Museum for Central Africa
M.-N.K Djuikouo
T.V Do
J.-L Doucet - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
F.C Draper - University of Liverpool
V Droissart
J.F Duivenvoorden - University of Amsterdam
J Engel - University of Montpellier
V Estienne - Wildlife Conservation Society Congo
W Farfan-Rios - Antioch University Seattle
S Fauset - University of Plymouth
K.J Feeley - University of Miami
Y.O Feitosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
T.R Feldpausch - University of Leeds
C Ferreira - National Institute of Amazonian Research
J Ferreira - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
L.V Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
C.D Fletcher - Forest Research Institute Malaysia
B.M Flores - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
A Fofanah
E.G Foli - The Forestry Commission of Ghana
E Fonty - University of French Guiana
G.M Fredriksson - Universitas Balikpapan
A Fuentes - Missouri Botanical Garden
D Galbraith - University of Leeds
G.P.G Gonzales
K Garcia-Cabrera
R García-Villacorta
V.H.F Gomes - Centro Universitário do Pará
R.Z Gómez - Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
T Gonzales
R Gribel - National Institute of Amazonian Research
M.C Guedes - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
J.E Guevara - Universidad de Las Américas
K.R Hakeem - King Abdulaziz University
J.S Hall - ForestGEO
K.C Hamer - University of Leeds
A.C Hamilton - Kunming Institute of Botany
D.J Harris - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
R.D Harrison - World Health Organization - Zambia
T.B Hart - Lukuru Foundation
A Hector - University of Oxford
T.W Henkel - Humboldt State University
J Herbohn - University of the Sunshine Coast
M.B.N Hockemba - Wildlife Conservation Society Congo
B Hoffman - Amazon
M Holmgren - Wageningen University & Research
E.N Honorio Coronado
I Huamantupa-Chuquimaco
W Hubau - Royal Museum for Central Africa
N Imai - Tokyo University of Agriculture
M.V Irume - National Institute of Amazonian Research
P.A Jansen - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
K.J Jeffery - University of Stirling
E.M Jimenez - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
T Jucker - University of Bristol
A.B Junqueira - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
M Kalamandeen - McMaster University
N.G Kamdem - Université de Yaoundé I
K Kartawinata - Field Museum of Natural History
E Kasongo Yakusu
J.M Katembo - Université de Kisangani
E Kearsley - Ghent University
D Kenfack - ForestGEO
M Kessler - University of Zurich
T.T Khaing - Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
T.J Killeen
K Kitayama - Kyoto University
B Klitgaard - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
N Labrière - Laboratory Evolution and Biological Diversity
Y Laumonier - Center for International Forestry Research
S.G.W Laurance - James Cook University
W.F Laurance - James Cook University
F Laurent - Royal Museum for Central Africa
T.C Le
T.T Le
M.E Leal - Wildlife Conservation Society Uganda
E.M Leão de Moraes Novo
A Levesley - University of Leeds
M.B Libalah - Université de Yaoundé I
J.C Licona - Bolivian Forest Research Institute
D.D.A Lima Filho
J.A Lindsell - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
A Lopes - Universidade de Brasília
M.A Lopes - Universidade Federal do Pará
J.C Lovett - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
R Lowe - University of Ibadan
J.R Lozada - University of the Andes
X Lu - Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection
N.K Luambua - National Institute of Biomedical Research
B.G Luize - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
P Maas
J.L.L Magalhães - Universidade Federal do Pará
W.E Magnusson - National Institute of Amazonian Research
N.P.D Mahayani - Universitas Gadjah Mada
J.-R Makana - Université de Kisangani
Y Malhi - University of Oxford
L Maniguaje Rincón
A Mansor - Universiti Sains Malaysia
A.G Manzatto - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
B.S Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
B.H Marimon-Junior
A.R Marshall - University of York
M.P Martins - National Institute of Amazonian Research
F.M Mbayu
M.B de Medeiros - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
I Mesones - University of California, Berkeley
F Metali - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
V Mihindou - National Agency for National Parks
J Millet - French National Agency for Water and Aquatic Environments
W Milliken - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
H.F Mogollón
J.-F Molino
M.N Mohd. Said
A.M Mendoza
J.C Montero - Bolivian Forest Research Institute
S Moore - University of Oxford
B Mostacedo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
L.F Mozombite Pinto
S.A Mukul - University of the Sunshine Coast
P.K.T Munishi - Sokoine University of Agriculture
H Nagamasu - Museum of Kyoto
H.E.M Nascimento - National Institute of Amazonian Research
M.T Nascimento - State University of Norte Fluminense
D Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
R Nilus - Sabah Forestry Department
J.C Noronha - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
L Nsenga - Royal Museum for Central Africa
P Núñez Vargas
L Ojo
A.A Oliveira
E.A de Oliveira - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
F.E Ondo - National Agency for National Parks
W Palacios Cuenca
S Pansini - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
M.P Pansonato - Universidade de São Paulo
M.R Paredes
E Paudel - Kunming Institute of Botany
D Pauletto - Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará
R.G Pearson - University College London
J.L.R Pena
R.T Pennington - University of Exeter
C.A Peres - University of East Anglia
A Permana - University of Warwick
P Petronelli - Ecology of Guianan Forests
M.C Peñuela Mora
J.F Phillips - Fundación para la Educación y el Desarrollo Social
O.L Phillips - University of Leeds
G Pickavance - University of Leeds
M.T.F Piedade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
N.C.A Pitman - Field Museum of Natural History
P Ploton
A Popelier - Ghent University
J.R Poulsen - Duke University
A Prieto - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
R.B Primack - Boston University
H Priyadi - IPB University
L Qie - University of Lincoln
A.C Quaresma - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
H.L de Queiroz - Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá
H Ramirez-Angulo
J.F Ramos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
N.F.C Reis - Federal University of Rondônia
J Reitsma - Bureau Waardenburg
J.D.C Revilla - National Institute of Amazonian Research
T Riutta - University of Oxford
G Rivas-Torres
I Robiansyah - King Abdulaziz University
M Rocha - National Institute of Amazonian Research
D.D.J Rodrigues
M.E Rodriguez-Ronderos
F Rovero - University of Florence
A.H Rozak - Center for International Forestry Research
A Rudas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
E Rutishauser
D Sabatier
L.B Sagang - University of California, Los Angeles
A.F Sampaio - Federal University of Rondônia
I Samsoedin
M Satdichanh - Kunming Institute of Botany
J Schietti - National Institute of Amazonian Research
J Schöngart - National Institute of Amazonian Research
V.V Scudeller - Universidade Federal do Amazonas
N Seuaturien
D Sheil - Wageningen University & Research
R Sierra
M.R Silman - Wake Forest University
T.S.F Silva - University of Stirling
J.R da Silva Guimarães
M Simo-Droissart
M.F Simon - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
P Sist
T.R Sousa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
E de Sousa Farias
L de Souza Coelho - National Institute of Amazonian Research
D.V Spracklen - University of Leeds
S.M Stas - University of Leeds
R Steinmetz
P.R Stevenson - Universidad de Los Andes
J Stropp - Universität Trier
R.S Sukri - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
T.C.H Sunderland - University of British Columbia
E Suzuki - Kagoshima University
M.D Swaine - University of Aberdeen
J Tang - Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
J Taplin - UK Research and Innovation
D.M Taylor - National University of Singapore
J Terborgh - Florida Museum of Natural History
N Texier - Université Libre de Bruxelles
I Theilade - University of Copenhagen
D.W Thomas - Washington State University Vancouver
R Thomas - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
S.C Thomas - University of Toronto
M Tirado
B Toirambe - Ministry of Public Health
J.J de Toledo - Universidade Federal do Amapá
K.W Tomlinson - Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
A Torres-Lezama
H.D Tran
J Tshibamba Mukendi
R.D Tumaneng - Fauna and Flora International
M.N Umaña - University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
P.M Umunay - Wildlife Conservation Society
L.E Urrego Giraldo
E.H Valderrama Sandoval
L Valenzuela Gamarra
T.R Van Andel - Wageningen University & Research
M van de Bult
J van de Pol - Ministre de la Forêt,de la Mer et de l'Environnement
G van der Heijden - University of Nottingham
R Vasquez
C.I.A Vela - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
E.M Venticinque - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
H Verbeeck - Ghent University
R.K.A Veridiano
A Vicentini - National Institute of Amazonian Research
I.C.G Vieira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
E Vilanova Torre
D Villarroel - Fundación PROINPA
B.E Villa Zegarra
J Vleminckx - Université Libre de Bruxelles
P von Hildebrand
V.A Vos - Universidad Autónoma del Beni
C Vriesendorp - Field Museum of Natural History
E.L Webb - University of Helsinki
L.J.T White
S Wich - Liverpool John Moores University
F Wittmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
R Zagt
R Zang - Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection
C.E Zartman - National Institute of Amazonian Research
L Zemagho - Université de Yaoundé I
E.L Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
S Zent - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Publisher: Nature Research
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