Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness
Successional changes in functional diversity provide insights into community assembly by indicating how species are filtered into local communities based on their traits. Here, we assess successional changes in taxonomic and functional richness, evenness and redundancy along gradients of climate, so...
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RepoCATIE126532024-06-22T01:12:20Z Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness Sande, Masha T. van der. Utrera, Luis P Álvarez, Francisco S Granda Moser, Vanessa A y otros más Taxonomía||taxonomy||Taxonomia||taxonomie Diversidad funcional||functional diversity||undefined||diversité fonctionnelle pH del suelo||soil pH||pH do solo||pH du sol Bosques||forests||floresta||forêt Zona tropical||tropical zones||zona tropical||zone tropicale Cobertura forestal Forest cover Neotropical Sede Central Successional changes in functional diversity provide insights into community assembly by indicating how species are filtered into local communities based on their traits. Here, we assess successional changes in taxonomic and functional richness, evenness and redundancy along gradients of climate, soil pH and forest cover. We used 22 forest chronosequence studies and 676 plots across the Neotropics to analyse successional changes in Hill's taxonomic and functional diversity of trees, and how these successional changes vary with continental-scale gradients in precipitation, soil pH and surrounding forest cover. Taxonomic and functional richness and functional redundancy increased, while taxonomic and functional evenness decreased over time. Functional richness and evenness changed strongly when not accounting for taxonomic richness, but changed more weakly after statistically accounting for taxonomic richness, indicating that changes in functional diversity are largely driven by taxonomic richness. Nevertheless, the successional increases in functional richness when correcting for taxonomic richness may indicate that environmental heterogeneity and limiting similarity increase during succession. The taxonomically-independent successional decreases in functional evenness may indicate that stronger filtering and competition select for dominant species with similar trait values, while many rare species and traits are added to the community. Such filtering and competition may also lead to increased functional redundancy. The changes in taxonomically-independent functional diversity varied with resource availability and were stronger in harsh, resource-poor environments, but weak in benign, productive environments. Hence, in resource-poor environments, environmental filtering and facilitation are important, whereas in productive environments, weaker abiotic filtering allows for high initial functional diversity and weak successional changes. We found that taxonomic and functional richness and functional redundancy increased and taxonomic and functional evenness decreased during succession, mainly caused by the increasing number of rare species and traits due to the arrival of new species and due to changing (a)biotic filters. 2024-06-19T16:49:51Z 2024-06-19T16:49:51Z 2024-06-08 Artículo https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/12653 openAccess en Global Ecology and Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13856 15 páginas application/pdf Wiley |
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Taxonomía||taxonomy||Taxonomia||taxonomie Diversidad funcional||functional diversity||undefined||diversité fonctionnelle pH del suelo||soil pH||pH do solo||pH du sol Bosques||forests||floresta||forêt Zona tropical||tropical zones||zona tropical||zone tropicale Cobertura forestal Forest cover Neotropical Sede Central |
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Taxonomía||taxonomy||Taxonomia||taxonomie Diversidad funcional||functional diversity||undefined||diversité fonctionnelle pH del suelo||soil pH||pH do solo||pH du sol Bosques||forests||floresta||forêt Zona tropical||tropical zones||zona tropical||zone tropicale Cobertura forestal Forest cover Neotropical Sede Central Sande, Masha T. van der. Utrera, Luis P Álvarez, Francisco S Granda Moser, Vanessa A y otros más Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness |
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Successional changes in functional diversity provide insights into community assembly by indicating how species are filtered into local communities based on their traits. Here, we assess successional changes in taxonomic and functional richness, evenness and redundancy along gradients of climate, soil pH and forest cover. We used 22 forest chronosequence studies and 676 plots across the Neotropics to analyse successional changes in Hill's taxonomic and functional diversity of trees, and how these successional changes vary with continental-scale gradients in precipitation, soil pH and surrounding forest cover. Taxonomic and functional richness and functional redundancy increased, while taxonomic and functional evenness decreased over time. Functional richness and evenness changed strongly when not accounting for taxonomic richness, but changed more weakly after statistically accounting for taxonomic richness, indicating that changes in functional diversity are largely driven by taxonomic richness. Nevertheless, the successional increases in functional richness when correcting for taxonomic richness may indicate that environmental heterogeneity and limiting similarity increase during succession. The taxonomically-independent successional decreases in functional evenness may indicate that stronger filtering and competition select for dominant species with similar trait values, while many rare species and traits are added to the community. Such filtering and competition may also lead to increased functional redundancy. The changes in taxonomically-independent functional diversity varied with resource availability and were stronger in harsh, resource-poor environments, but weak in benign, productive environments. Hence, in resource-poor environments, environmental filtering and facilitation are important, whereas in productive environments, weaker abiotic filtering allows for high initial functional diversity and weak successional changes. We found that taxonomic and functional richness and functional redundancy increased and taxonomic and functional evenness decreased during succession, mainly caused by the increasing number of rare species and traits due to the arrival of new species and due to changing (a)biotic filters. |
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Sande, Masha T. van der. Utrera, Luis P Álvarez, Francisco S Granda Moser, Vanessa A y otros más |
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Sande, Masha T. van der. Utrera, Luis P Álvarez, Francisco S Granda Moser, Vanessa A y otros más |
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Sande, Masha T. van der. |
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Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness |
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Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness |
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Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness |
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Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness |
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Tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness |
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tropical forest succession increases taxonomic and functional tree richness but decreases evenness |
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Wiley |
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2024 |
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https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/12653 |
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