Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests
Species’ traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. The extent to which traits of dominant and rare tree species differ remains untested across a broad environmental range, limiting our understanding of how species traits and the environment shape f...
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| author | Hordijk, Iris Poorter, Lourens Liang, Jingjing Reich, Peter B. de-Miguel, Sergio Nabuurs, Gert-Jan Gamarra, Javier G.P. Chen, Han Y. H. Zhou, Mo Wiser, Susan Peri, Pablo Luis Crowther, Thomas W. |
| author_browse | Chen, Han Y. H. Crowther, Thomas W. Gamarra, Javier G.P. Hordijk, Iris Liang, Jingjing Nabuurs, Gert-Jan Peri, Pablo Luis Poorter, Lourens Reich, Peter B. Wiser, Susan Zhou, Mo de-Miguel, Sergio |
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| description | Species’ traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. The extent to which traits of dominant and rare tree species differ remains untested across a broad environmental range, limiting our understanding of how species traits and the environment shape forest functional composition. We use a global dataset of tree composition of >22,000 forest plots and 11 traits of 1663 tree species to ask how locally dominant and rare species differ in their trait values, and how these differences are driven by climatic gradients in temperature and water availability in forest biomes across the globe. We find three consistent trait differences between locally dominant and rare species across all biomes; dominant species are taller, have softer wood and higher loading on the multivariate stem strategy axis (related to narrow tracheids and thick bark). The difference between traits of dominant and rare species is more strongly driven by temperature compared to water availability, as temperature might affect a larger number of traits. Therefore, climate change driven global temperature rise may have a strong effect on trait differences between dominant and rare tree species and may lead to changes in species abundances and therefore strong community
reassembly. |
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| spelling | INTA224572025-05-27T13:43:58Z Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests Hordijk, Iris Poorter, Lourens Liang, Jingjing Reich, Peter B. de-Miguel, Sergio Nabuurs, Gert-Jan Gamarra, Javier G.P. Chen, Han Y. H. Zhou, Mo Wiser, Susan Peri, Pablo Luis Crowther, Thomas W. Biodiversity Trees Primary Forests Biological Traits Rare Species Dominant Species Temperature Water Availability Biodiversidad Árboles Bosques Primarios Rasgos Biológicos Especie Rara Especies Dominantes Temperatura Disponibilidad de Agua Community Ecology Functional Composition Global Dataset Ecología Comunitaria Composición Funcional Conjunto de Datos Globales Species’ traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. The extent to which traits of dominant and rare tree species differ remains untested across a broad environmental range, limiting our understanding of how species traits and the environment shape forest functional composition. We use a global dataset of tree composition of >22,000 forest plots and 11 traits of 1663 tree species to ask how locally dominant and rare species differ in their trait values, and how these differences are driven by climatic gradients in temperature and water availability in forest biomes across the globe. We find three consistent trait differences between locally dominant and rare species across all biomes; dominant species are taller, have softer wood and higher loading on the multivariate stem strategy axis (related to narrow tracheids and thick bark). The difference between traits of dominant and rare species is more strongly driven by temperature compared to water availability, as temperature might affect a larger number of traits. Therefore, climate change driven global temperature rise may have a strong effect on trait differences between dominant and rare tree species and may lead to changes in species abundances and therefore strong community reassembly. EEA Santa Cruz, INTA Fil: Hordijk, Iris. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Institute of Integrative Biology; Suiza Fil: Hordijk, Iris. Wageningen University and Research; Países Bajos Fil: Poorter, Lourens. Wageningen University and Research; Países Bajos Fil: Liang, Jingjing. Purdue University. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources; Estados Unidos Fil: Reich, Peter B. University of Minnesota. Department of Forest Resources; Estados Unidos Fil: Reich, Peter B. Western Sydney University. Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment; Australia. Fil: de-Miguel, Sergio. University of Lleida. Department of Crop and Forest Sciences; España Fil: de-Miguel, Sergio. Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC); España Fil: Nabuurs, Gert-Jan. Wageningen University and Research; Países Bajos Fil: Gamarra, Javier G. P. Organization of the United Nations. Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture; Italia Fil: Chen, Han Y. H. Lakehead University. Faculty of Natural Resources Management; Canadá. Fil: Zhou, Mo. Purdue University. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources; Estados Unidos Fil: Wiser, Susan. Fil: Wiser, Susan. Landcare Research; Nueva Zelanda. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fil: Crowther, Thomas W. Institute of Integrative biology. Crowther Lab. Department of environmental Systems Science; Suiza 2025-05-27T13:15:29Z 2025-05-27T13:15:29Z 2025-05-22 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22457 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59754-7 Hordijk I.; Poorter L.; Liang J.; Reich P.; (…); Peri P.L.; et al. (2025) Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests. Nature Communications 16: e4773. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7 2041-1723 (online) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Springer Nature Nature Communications 16 : e4773. (May 2025) |
| spellingShingle | Biodiversity Trees Primary Forests Biological Traits Rare Species Dominant Species Temperature Water Availability Biodiversidad Árboles Bosques Primarios Rasgos Biológicos Especie Rara Especies Dominantes Temperatura Disponibilidad de Agua Community Ecology Functional Composition Global Dataset Ecología Comunitaria Composición Funcional Conjunto de Datos Globales Hordijk, Iris Poorter, Lourens Liang, Jingjing Reich, Peter B. de-Miguel, Sergio Nabuurs, Gert-Jan Gamarra, Javier G.P. Chen, Han Y. H. Zhou, Mo Wiser, Susan Peri, Pablo Luis Crowther, Thomas W. Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests |
| title | Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests |
| title_full | Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests |
| title_fullStr | Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests |
| title_short | Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests |
| title_sort | effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world s forests |
| topic | Biodiversity Trees Primary Forests Biological Traits Rare Species Dominant Species Temperature Water Availability Biodiversidad Árboles Bosques Primarios Rasgos Biológicos Especie Rara Especies Dominantes Temperatura Disponibilidad de Agua Community Ecology Functional Composition Global Dataset Ecología Comunitaria Composición Funcional Conjunto de Datos Globales |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22457 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59754-7 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7 |
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