Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests

Hans Ter Steege; Lourens Poorter; Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez; Claire Fortunel; William E Magnusson; Oliver L Phillips; Edwin Pos; Bruno Garcia Luize; Chris Baraloto; Juan Ernesto Guevara; María-José Endara; Tim R Baker; Maria Natalia Umaña; Masha van der Sande; Maihyra Marina Pombo; Matt McGlone; Freddie C Draper; Iêda Leão do Amaral; Luiz de Souza Coelho; Florian Wittmann; Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos; Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho; Rafael P Salomão; Carolina V Castilho; Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim; Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade; Daniel Sabatier; Jean-François Molino; Layon O Demarchi; Juan David Cardenas Revilla; Jochen Schöngart; Mariana Victória Irume; Maria Pires Martins; José Renan da Silva Guimarães; José Ferreira Ramos; Olaf S Bánki; Adriano Costa Quaresma; Nigel CA Pitman; Carlos A Peres; Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues; Joseph E Hawes; Everton José Almeida; Luciane Ferreira Barbosa; Larissa Cavalheiro; Márcia Cléia Vilela Dos Santos; Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo; Percy Núñez Vargas; Thiago Sanna Freire Silva; Eduardo Martins Venticinque; Angelo Gilberto Manzatto; Neidiane Farias Costa Reis; John Terborgh; Katia Regina Casula; Euridice N Honorio Coronado; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Juan Carlos Montero; Cintia Rodrigues De Souza; Marcus Vinicio Neves de Oliveira; Flávia RC Costa; Julien Engel; Ted R Feldpausch; Nicolás Castaño Arboleda; Flávia Machado Durgante; Charles Eugene Zartman; Timothy J Killeen; Beatriz S Marimon; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior; Rodolfo Vasquez; Bonifacio Mostacedo; Rafael L Assis; Dário Dantas do Amaral; Hernán Castellanos; John Ethan Householder; Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros; Marcelo Fragomeni Simon; Ana Andrade; José Luís Camargo; Susan GW Laurance; William F Laurance; Lorena Maniguaje Rincón; Gisele Biem Mori; Juliana Schietti; Thaiane R Sousa; Emanuelle de Sousa Farias; Maria Aparecida Lopes; José Leonardo Lima Magalhães; Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento; Helder Lima de Queiroz; Caroline C Vasconcelos; Gerardo A Aymard C; Roel Brienen; Pâmella Leite de Sousa Assis; Darlene Gris; Karoline Aparecida Felix Ribeiro; Pablo R Stevenson; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra; Yuri Oliveira Feitosa; Hugo F Mogollón; Miles R Silman; Leandro Valle Ferreira; José Rafael Lozada; James A Comiskey; José Julio de Toledo; Gabriel Damasco; Roosevelt García-Villacorta; Aline Lopes; Marcos Rios Paredes; Alberto Vicentini; Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Alfonso Alonso; Luzmila Arroyo; Francisco Dallmeier; Vitor HF Gomes; William Nauray Huari; David Neill; Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora; Daniel PP de Aguiar; Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa; Yennie K Bredin; Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo; Fernanda Antunes Carvalho; Fernanda Coelho de Souza; Kenneth J Feeley; Rogerio Gribel; Torbjørn Haugaasen; Janaína Costa Noronha; Marcelo Petratti Pansonato; John J Pipoly; Jos Barlow; Erika Berenguer; Izaias Brasil da Silva; Joice Ferreira; Maria Julia Ferreira; Paul VA Fine; Marcelino Carneiro Guedes; Carolina Levis; Juan Carlos Licona; Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra; Vincent Antoine Vos; Carlos Cerón; Émile Fonty; Terry W Henkel; Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; Marcos Silveira; Juliana Stropp; Raquel Thomas; Doug Daly; Kyle G Dexter; William Milliken; Guido Pardo Molina; Toby Pennington; Bianca Weiss Albuquerque; Wegliane Campelo; Alfredo Fuentes Claros; Bente Klitgaard; José Luis Marcelo Pena; Luis Torres Montenegro; J Sebastián Tello; Corine Vriesendorp; Jerome Chave; Anthony Di Fiore; Renato Richard Hilário; Luciana de Oliveira Pereira; Juan Fernando Phillips; Gonzalo Rivas-Torres; Tinde R van Andel; Patricio von Hildebrand; William Balee; Edelcilio Marques Barbosa; Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates; Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza; Ricardo Zárate Gómez; George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales; Therany Gonzales; Bruce Hoffman; André Braga Junqueira; Yadvinder Malhi; Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda; Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto; Adriana Prieto; Agustín Rudas; Ademir R Ruschel; Natalino Silva; César IA Vela; Egleé L Zent; Stanford Zent; Angela Cano; Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez; Diego F Correa; Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa; Bernardo Monteiro Flores; David Galbraith; Milena Holmgren; Michelle Kalamandeen; Guilherme Lobo; Tony Mori Vargas; Marcelo Trindade Nascimento; Alexandre A Oliveira; Hirma Ramirez-Angulo; Maira Rocha; Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller; Geertje van der Heijden; Emilio Vilanova Torre; Cláudia Baider; Henrik Balslev; Sasha Cárdenas; Luisa Fernanda Casas; William Farfan-Rios; Reynaldo Linares-Palomino; Casimiro Mendoza; Italo Mesones; Germaine Alexander Parada; Armando Torres-Lezama; Daniel Villarroel; Roderick Zagt; Miguel N Alexiades; Edmar Almeida de Oliveira; Riley P Fortier; Karina Garcia-Cabrera; Lionel Hernandez; Walter Palacios Cuenca; Susamar Pansini; Daniela Pauletto; Freddy Ramirez Arevalo; Adeilza Felipe Sampaio; Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval; Luis Valenzuela Gamarra; Aurora Levesley; Georgia Pickavance

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Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests

Hans Ter Steege, Lourens Poorter, Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Claire Fortunel, William E Magnusson, Oliver L Phillips, Edwin Pos, Bruno Garcia Luize, Chris Baraloto, Juan Ernesto Guevara, …

2025-03-03

Abstract

Biomass

Forests

Plant Leaves

Seeds

Soil

Trees

Brazil

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.

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Title: Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests
Creators: Hans Ter Steege
Lourens Poorter
Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez
Claire Fortunel
William E Magnusson
Oliver L Phillips
Edwin Pos
Bruno Garcia Luize
Chris Baraloto
Juan Ernesto Guevara
María-José Endara
Tim R Baker
Maria Natalia Umaña
Masha van der Sande
Maihyra Marina Pombo
Matt McGlone
Freddie C Draper
Iêda Leão do Amaral
Luiz de Souza Coelho
Florian Wittmann
Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos
Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho
Rafael P Salomão
Carolina V Castilho
Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade
Daniel Sabatier
Jean-François Molino
Layon O Demarchi
Juan David Cardenas Revilla
Jochen Schöngart
Mariana Victória Irume
Maria Pires Martins
José Renan da Silva Guimarães
José Ferreira Ramos
Olaf S Bánki
Adriano Costa Quaresma
Nigel CA Pitman
Carlos A Peres
Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues
Joseph E Hawes
Everton José Almeida
Luciane Ferreira Barbosa
Larissa Cavalheiro
Márcia Cléia Vilela Dos Santos
Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão Novo
Percy Núñez Vargas
Thiago Sanna Freire Silva
Eduardo Martins Venticinque
Angelo Gilberto Manzatto
Neidiane Farias Costa Reis
John Terborgh
Katia Regina Casula
Euridice N Honorio Coronado
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Juan Carlos Montero
Cintia Rodrigues De Souza
Marcus Vinicio Neves de Oliveira
Flávia RC Costa
Julien Engel
Ted R Feldpausch
Nicolás Castaño Arboleda
Flávia Machado Durgante
Charles Eugene Zartman
Timothy J Killeen
Beatriz S Marimon
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior
Rodolfo Vasquez
Bonifacio Mostacedo
Rafael L Assis
Dário Dantas do Amaral
Hernán Castellanos
John Ethan Householder
Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros
Marcelo Fragomeni Simon
Ana Andrade
José Luís Camargo
Susan GW Laurance
William F Laurance
Lorena Maniguaje Rincón
Gisele Biem Mori
Juliana Schietti
Thaiane R Sousa
Emanuelle de Sousa Farias
Maria Aparecida Lopes
José Leonardo Lima Magalhães
Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento
Helder Lima de Queiroz
Caroline C Vasconcelos
Gerardo A Aymard C
Roel Brienen
Pâmella Leite de Sousa Assis
Darlene Gris
Karoline Aparecida Felix Ribeiro
Pablo R Stevenson
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami
Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra
Yuri Oliveira Feitosa
Hugo F Mogollón
Miles R Silman
Leandro Valle Ferreira
José Rafael Lozada
James A Comiskey
José Julio de Toledo
Gabriel Damasco
Roosevelt García-Villacorta
Aline Lopes
Marcos Rios Paredes
Alberto Vicentini
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Alfonso Alonso
Luzmila Arroyo
Francisco Dallmeier
Vitor HF Gomes
William Nauray Huari
David Neill
Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora
Daniel PP de Aguiar
Flávia Rodrigues Barbosa
Yennie K Bredin
Rainiellen de Sá Carpanedo
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho
Fernanda Coelho de Souza
Kenneth J Feeley
Rogerio Gribel
Torbjørn Haugaasen
Janaína Costa Noronha
Marcelo Petratti Pansonato
John J Pipoly
Jos Barlow
Erika Berenguer
Izaias Brasil da Silva
Joice Ferreira
Maria Julia Ferreira
Paul VA Fine
Marcelino Carneiro Guedes
Carolina Levis
Juan Carlos Licona
Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra
Vincent Antoine Vos
Carlos Cerón
Émile Fonty
Terry W Henkel
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco
Marcos Silveira
Juliana Stropp
Raquel Thomas
Doug Daly
Kyle G Dexter
William Milliken
Guido Pardo Molina
Toby Pennington
Bianca Weiss Albuquerque
Wegliane Campelo
Alfredo Fuentes Claros
Bente Klitgaard
José Luis Marcelo Pena
Luis Torres Montenegro
J Sebastián Tello
Corine Vriesendorp
Jerome Chave
Anthony Di Fiore
Renato Richard Hilário
Luciana de Oliveira Pereira
Juan Fernando Phillips
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres
Tinde R van Andel
Patricio von Hildebrand
William Balee
Edelcilio Marques Barbosa
Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates
Hilda Paulette Dávila Doza
Ricardo Zárate Gómez
George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales
Therany Gonzales
Bruce Hoffman
André Braga Junqueira
Yadvinder Malhi
Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda
Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto
Adriana Prieto
Agustín Rudas
Ademir R Ruschel
Natalino Silva
César IA Vela
Egleé L Zent
Stanford Zent
Angela Cano
Yrma Andreina Carrero Márquez
Diego F Correa
Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa
Bernardo Monteiro Flores
David Galbraith
Milena Holmgren
Michelle Kalamandeen
Guilherme Lobo
Tony Mori Vargas
Marcelo Trindade Nascimento
Alexandre A Oliveira
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo
Maira Rocha
Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller
Geertje van der Heijden
Emilio Vilanova Torre
Cláudia Baider
Henrik Balslev
Sasha Cárdenas
Luisa Fernanda Casas
William Farfan-Rios
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
Casimiro Mendoza
Italo Mesones
Germaine Alexander Parada
Armando Torres-Lezama
Daniel Villarroel
Roderick Zagt
Miguel N Alexiades
Edmar Almeida de Oliveira
Riley P Fortier
Karina Garcia-Cabrera
Lionel Hernandez
Walter Palacios Cuenca
Susamar Pansini
Daniela Pauletto
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo
Adeilza Felipe Sampaio
Elvis H Valderrama Sandoval
Luis Valenzuela Gamarra
Aurora Levesley
Georgia Pickavance
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Academic Unit: A&S - Biology; College of A&S
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991032693010602976