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Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert*, Oliver L. Phillips, Roel J.W. Brienen, Sophie Fauset, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Timothy R. Baker, Kuo Jung Chao, Ted R. Feldpausch, Emanuel Gloor, Niro Higuchi, Jeanne Houwing-Duistermaat, Jon Lloyd, Haiyan Liu, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Lourens Poorter, Marcos Silveira, Emilio Vilanova Torre
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots. While tree mortality rates vary greatly Amazon-wide, on average trees are as likely to die standing as they are broken or uprooted—modes of death with different ecological consequences. Species-level growth rate is the single most important predictor of tree death in Amazonia, with faster-growing species being at higher risk. Within species, however, the slowest-growing trees are at greatest risk while the effect of tree size varies across the basin. In the driest Amazonian region species-level bioclimatic distributional patterns also predict the risk of death, suggesting that these forests are experiencing climatic conditions beyond their adaptative limits. These results provide not only a holistic pan-Amazonian picture of tree death but large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth–survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 5515 |
Journal | Nature Communications |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2020 |
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/Letter to the editor › Academic
Esquivel-Muelbert, A. (Creator), Phillips, O. L. (Creator), Brienen, R. J. W. (Creator), Fauset, S. (Creator), Sullivan, M. J. P. (Creator), Baker, T. R. (Creator), Chao, K. J. (Creator), Feldpausch, T. R. (Creator), Gloor, E. (Creator), Higuchi, N. (Creator), Houwing-Duistermaat, J. (Creator), Lloyd, J. (Creator), Liu, H. (Creator), Malhi, Y. (Creator), Marimon, B. (Creator), Marimon Junior, B. H. (Creator), Monteagudo-Mendoza, A. (Creator), Poorter, L. (Creator), Silveira, M. (Creator), Torre, E. V. (Creator), Dávila, E. A. (Creator), del Aguila Pasquel, J. (Creator), Almeida, E. (Creator), Loayza, P. A. (Creator), Andrade, A. (Creator), Aragão, L. E. O. C. (Creator), Araujo-Murakami, A. (Creator), Arets, E. (Creator), Arroyo, L. (Creator), Aymard C, G. A. (Creator), Baisie, M. (Creator), Baraloto, C. (Creator), Camargo, P. B. (Creator), Barroso, J. (Creator), Blanc, L. (Creator), Bonal, D. (Creator), Bongers, F. (Creator), Boot, R. (Creator), Brown, F. (Creator), Burban, B. (Creator), Camargo, J. L. (Creator), Castro, W. (Creator), Moscoso, V. C. (Creator), Chave, J. (Creator), Comiskey, J. (Creator), Valverde, F. C. (Creator), da Costa, A. L. (Creator), Cardozo, N. D. (Creator), Di Fiore, A. (Creator), Dourdain, A. (Creator), Erwin, T. (Creator), Llampazo, G. F. (Creator), Vieira, I. C. G. (Creator), Herrera, R. (Creator), Honorio Coronado, E. (Creator), Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I. (Creator), Jimenez-Rojas, E. (Creator), Killeen, T. (Creator), Laurance, S. (Creator), Laurance, W. (Creator), Levesley, A. (Creator), Lewis, S. L. (Creator), Ladvocat, K. L. L. M. (Creator), Lopez-Gonzalez, G. (Creator), Lovejoy, T. (Creator), Meir, P. (Creator), Mendoza, C. (Creator), Morandi, P. (Creator), Neill, D. (Creator), Nogueira Lima, A. J. (Creator), Vargas, P. N. (Creator), de Oliveira, E. A. (Creator), Camacho, N. P. (Creator), Pardo, G. (Creator), Peacock, J. (Creator), Peña-Claros, M. (Creator), Peñuela-Mora, M. C. (Creator), Pickavance, G. (Creator), Pipoly, J. (Creator), Pitman, N. (Creator), Prieto, A. (Creator), Pugh, T. A. M. (Creator), Quesada, C. (Creator), Ramirez-Angulo, H. (Creator), de Almeida Reis, S. M. (Creator), Rejou-Machain, M. (Creator), Correa, Z. R. (Creator), Bayona, L. R. (Creator), Rudas, A. (Creator), Salomão, R. (Creator), Serrano, J. (Creator), Espejo, J. S. (Creator), Silva, N. (Creator), Singh, J. (Creator), Stahl, C. (Creator), Stropp, J. (Creator), Swamy, V. (Creator), Talbot, J. (Creator), ter Steege, H. (Creator), Terborgh, J. (Creator), Thomas, R. (Creator), Toledo, M. (Creator), Torres-Lezama, A. (Creator), Gamarra, L. V. (Creator), van der Heijden, G. (Creator), van der Meer, P. (Creator), van der Hout, P. (Creator), Martinez, R. V. (Creator), Vieira, S. A. (Creator), Cayo, J. V. (Creator), Vos, V. (Creator), Zagt, R. (Creator), Zuidema, P. (Creator) & Galbraith, D. (Creator), University of Birmingham, 2020
DOI: 10.5521/forestplots.net/2020_6
Dataset
1/02/18 → 31/07/23
Project: EU research project
1/09/11 → 30/11/14
Project: EU research project