Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa

Pablo Sanchez-Martinez; Kyle G. Dexter; Freddie C. Draper; Chris Baraloto; Ieda Leao do Amaral; Luiz de Souza Coelho; Francisca Dionizia de Almeida Matos; Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho; Rafael P. Salomao; Florian Wittmann; Carolina V. Castilho; Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim; Juan Ernesto Guevara; Oliver L. Phillips; William E. Magnusson; Daniel Sabatier; Juan David Cardenas Revilla; Jean-Francois Molino; Mariana Victoria Irume; Maria Pires Martins; Jose Renan da Silva Guimaraes; Jose Ferreira Ramos; Olaf S. Banki; Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade; Dairon Cardenas Lopez; Nigel C. A. Pitman; Layon O. Demarchi; Jochen Schongart; Bruno Garcia Luize; Evlyn Marcia Moraes de Leao Novo; Percy Nunez 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; Flavia R. C. Costa; Ted R. Feldpausch; Adriano Costa Quaresma; Nicolas Castano Arboleda; Charles Eugene Zartman; Timothy J. Killeen; Beatriz S. Marimon; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior; Rodolfo Vasquez; Bonifacio Mostacedo; Rafael L. Assis; Dario Dantas do Amaral; Julien Engel; Hernan Castellanos; Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros; Marcelo Fragomeni Simon; Ana Andrade; Jose Luis Camargo; William F. Laurance; Susan G. W. Laurance; Lorena Maniguaje Rincon; Juliana Schietti; Thaiane R. Sousa; Emanuelle de Sousa Farias; Maria Aparecida Lopes; Jose Leonardo Lima Magalhaes; Henrique Eduardo Mendonca Nascimento; Helder Lima de Queiroz; Gerardo Aymard; Roel Brienen; Pablo R. Stevenson; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Bruno Barcante Ladvocat Cintra; Tim R. Baker; Yuri Oliveira Feitosa; Hugo F. Mogollon; Carlos A. Peres; Miles R. Silman; Leandro Valle Ferreira; Jose Rafael Lozada; James A. Comiskey; Jose Julio de Toledo; Gabriel Damasco; Nallarett Davila; Roosevelt Garcia-Villacorta; Aline Lopes; Alberto Vicentini; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Alfonso Alonso; Luzmila Arroyo; Francisco Dallmeier; Vitor H. F. Gomes; David Neill; Maria Cristina Penuela Mora; Janaina Costa Noronha; Daniel P. P. de Aguiar; Flavia Rodrigues Barbosa; Yennie K. Bredin; Rainiellen de Sa Carpanedo; Fernanda Antunes Carvalho; Kenneth Feeley

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Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa

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Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa

Pablo Sanchez-Martinez, Kyle G. Dexter, Freddie C. Draper, Chris Baraloto, Ieda Leao do Amaral, Luiz de Souza Coelho, Francisca Dionizia de Almeida Matos, Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho, Rafael P. Salomao, Florian Wittmann, …

Functional ecology, Vol.39(1), pp.181-198

2025-01-01

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14700

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Environmental Sciences & Ecology

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1. Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe the variability of strategies involving leaf, wood and demographic characteristics for tree genera distributed across the Amazon Region, and quantify phylogenetic signal for the characteristics and their relationships. 2. Leaf and wood traits are aligned with demographic variables along two main axes of variation. The first axis represents the coordination of leaf traits describing resource uptake and use, wood density, seed mass, and survival. The second axis represents the coordination between size and growth. Both axes show strong phylogenetic signal, suggesting a constrained evolution influenced by ancestral values, yet the second axis also has an additional, substantial portion of its variation that is driven by functional correlations unrelated to phylogeny, suggesting simultaneously higher evolutionary lability and coordination. 3. Synthesis. Our results suggest that life history strategies of tropical trees are generally phylogenetically conserved, but that tree lineages may have some capability of responding to environmental changes by modulating their growth and size. Overall, we provide the largest-scale synopsis of functional characteristics of Amazonian trees, showing substantial nuance in the evolutionary patterns of individual characteristics and their relationships.

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Title: Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Creators: Pablo Sanchez-Martinez - Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
Kyle G. Dexter - University of Edinburgh
Freddie C. Draper - University of Liverpool
Chris Baraloto - Florida Int Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Int Ctr Trop Bot ICTB, Miami, FL 33199 USA
Ieda Leao do Amaral - Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia INPA, Coordenacao Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Luiz de Souza Coelho - Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia INPA, Coordenacao Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Francisca Dionizia de Almeida Matos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Diogenes de Andrade Lima Filho - Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia INPA, Coordenacao Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Rafael P. Salomao - Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia
Florian Wittmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Carolina V. Castilho - Universidade Federal de Roraima
Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim - Inst Pesquisas Cient & Tecnol Amapa IEPA, Dept Bot, Macapa, Brazil
Juan Ernesto Guevara - Universidad de Las Américas
Oliver L. Phillips - University of Leeds
William E. Magnusson - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Daniel Sabatier - Université de Montpellier
Juan David Cardenas Revilla - Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia INPA, Coordenacao Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Jean-Francois Molino - Univ Montpellier, AMAP Bot & Modelisat Architecture Plantes & Veget, CIRAD, CNRS,INRAE,IRD, Montpellier, France
Mariana Victoria Irume - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Maria Pires Martins - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jose Renan da Silva Guimaraes - Amcel Amapa Florestal & Celulose SA, Santana, Brazil
Jose Ferreira Ramos - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Olaf S. Banki - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade - Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia INPA, Ecol Monitoring & Sustainable Use Wetlands MAUA, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Dairon Cardenas Lopez - Instituto Sinchi
Nigel C. A. Pitman - Field Museum of Natural History
Layon O. Demarchi - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jochen Schongart - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Bruno Garcia Luize - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Evlyn Marcia Moraes de Leao Novo - Department of Space
Percy Nunez Vargas - Univ Nacl San Antonio Abad Cusco, Herbario Vargas, Cuzco, Peru
Thiago Sanna Freire Silva - University of Stirling
Eduardo Martins Venticinque - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Angelo Gilberto Manzatto - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Neidiane Farias Costa Reis - Univ Fed Rondonia, Programa Posgrad Biodiversidade & Biotecnol PPG B, Porto Velho, Brazil
John Terborgh - Florida Museum of Natural History
Katia Regina Casula - Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Euridice N. Honorio Coronado - Inst Invest Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza - Univ Nacl San Antonio Abad Cusco, Herbario Vargas, Cuzco, Peru
Juan Carlos Montero - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Flavia R. C. Costa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Ted R. Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Adriano Costa Quaresma - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Nicolas Castano Arboleda - Amazon
Charles Eugene Zartman - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Timothy J. Killeen - Universidad Nacional del Oriente
Beatriz S. Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior - Nova Southeastern University
Rodolfo Vasquez - Jardin Bot Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
Bonifacio Mostacedo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Rafael L. Assis - Vale Technological Institute
Dario Dantas do Amaral - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Julien Engel - Université de Montpellier
Hernan Castellanos - Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Marcelo Fragomeni Simon - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Ana Andrade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jose Luis Camargo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
William F. Laurance - James Cook University
Susan G. W. Laurance - James Cook University
Lorena Maniguaje Rincon - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Juliana Schietti - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Thaiane R. Sousa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Emanuelle de Sousa Farias - Inst Leonidas & Maria Deane, Lab Ecol Doencas Transmissiveis Amazonia EDTA, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Maria Aparecida Lopes - Universidade Federal do Pará
Jose Leonardo Lima Magalhaes - Univ Fed Para, Programa Posgrad Ecol, Belem, Para, Brazil
Henrique Eduardo Mendonca Nascimento - Inst Nacl Pesquisas Amazonia INPA, Coordenacao Biodiversidade, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Helder Lima de Queiroz - Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá
Gerardo Aymard - Agro
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Pablo R. Stevenson - Universidad de Los Andes
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Bruno Barcante Ladvocat Cintra - University of Birmingham
Tim R. Baker - University of Leeds
Yuri Oliveira Feitosa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hugo F. Mogollon - Endangered Species Coalit, Silver Spring, MD USA
Carlos A. Peres - University of East Anglia
Miles R. Silman - Wake Forest University
Leandro Valle Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Jose Rafael Lozada - University of the Andes
James A. Comiskey - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Jose Julio de Toledo - Universidade Federal do Amapá
Gabriel Damasco - University of Gothenburg
Nallarett Davila - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Roosevelt Garcia-Villacorta - Ctr Restaurac & Bioecon Sostenible CREBIOS, Lima, Peru
Aline Lopes - Centro Universitário Cesumar
Alberto Vicentini - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Fernando Cornejo Valverde - Andes Amazon Biodivers Program, Madre De Dios, Peru
Alfonso Alonso - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Luzmila Arroyo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Francisco Dallmeier - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Vitor H. F. Gomes - Universidade Federal do Pará
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Maria Cristina Penuela Mora - Amazon
Janaina Costa Noronha - Federal Reserve
Daniel P. P. de Aguiar - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Flavia Rodrigues Barbosa - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Yennie K. Bredin - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Rainiellen de Sa Carpanedo - Univ Fed Mato Grosso, ICNHS, Sinop, Brazil
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Kenneth Feeley - A&S - Biology
Publication Details: Functional ecology, Vol.39(1), pp.181-198
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 18
Grant note: FPU18/04945 / Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades); Spanish Government
Academic Unit: A&S - Biology; College of A&S
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991032795872102976