Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests

Iris Hordijk; Lourens Poorter; Jingjing Liang; Peter B Reich; Sergio De-Miguel; Gert-Jan Nabuurs; Javier G P Gamarra; Han Y H Chen; Mo Zhou; Susan K Wiser; Hans Pretzsch; Alain Paquette; Nicolas Picard; Bruno Hérault; Jean-Francois Bastin; Giorgio Alberti; Meinrad Abegg; Yves C Adou Yao; Angelica M Almeyda Zambrano; Braulio V Alvarado; Esteban Alvarez-Davila; Patricia Alvarez-Loayza; Luciana F Alves; Iêda Amaral; Christian Ammer; Clara Antón-Fernández; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Luzmila Arroyo; Valerio Avitabile; Gerardo A Aymard C; Timothy Baker; Olaf Banki; Jorcely Barroso; Meredith L Bastian; Luca Birigazzi; Philippe Birnbaum; Robert Bitariho; Pascal Boeckx; Frans Bongers; Olivier Bouriaud; Pedro H S Brancalion; Susanne Brandl; Francis Q Brearley; Roel Brienen; Eben N Broadbent; Helge Bruelheide; Roberto Cazzolla Gatti; Ricardo G Cesar; Goran Cesljar; Robin L Chazdon; Chelsea Chisholm; Emil Cienciala; Connie J Clark; David B Clark; Gabriel Colletta; David Coomes; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Jose J Corral-Rivas; Philip Crim; Jonathan Cumming; Selvadurai Dayanandan; André L de Gasper; Mathieu Decuyper; Géraldine Derroire; Ben Devries; Ilija Djordjevic; Aurélie Dourdain; Jiri Dolezal; Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang; Brian Enquist; Teresa Eyre; Adandé Belarmain Fandohan; Tom M Fayle; Leandro V Ferreira; Ted R Feldpausch; Leena Finér; Markus Fischer; Christine Fletcher; Lorenzo Frizzera; Damiano Gianelle; Henry B Glick; David Harris; Andrew Hector; Andreas Hemp; John Herbohn; Annika Hillers; Eurídice N Honorio Coronado; Cang Hui; Hyunkook Cho; Thomas Ibanez; Ilbin Jung; Nobuo Imai; Andrzej M Jagodzinski; Bogdan Jaroszewicz; Vivian Johannsen; Carlos A Joly; Tommaso Jucker; Viktor Karminov; Kuswata Kartawinata; Elizabeth Kearsley; David Kenfack; Deborah Kennard; Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas; Gunnar Keppel; Mohammed Latif Khan; Timothy Killeen; Hyun Seok Kim; Kanehiro Kitayama; Michael Köhl; Henn Korjus; Florian Kraxner; Diana Laarmann; Mait Lang; Simon Lewis; Huicui Lu; Natalia Lukina; Brian Maitner; Yadvinder Malhi; Eric Marcon; Beatriz Schwantes Marimon; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior; Andrew Robert Marshall; Emanuel Martin; Olga Martynenko; Jorge A Meave; Omar Melo-Cruz; Casimiro Mendoza; Cory Merow; Stanislaw Miscicki; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Vanessa Moreno; Sharif A Mukul; Philip Mundhenk; Maria G Nava-Miranda; David Neill; Victor Neldner; Radovan Nevenic; Michael Ngugi; Pascal A Niklaus; Jacek Oleksyn; Petr Ontikov; Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi; Yude Pan; Alexander Parada-Gutierrez; Elena Parfenova; Minjee Park; Marc Parren; Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy; Pablo L Peri; Sebastian Pfautsch; Oliver L Phillips; Maria Teresa Piedade; Daniel Piotto; Nigel C A Pitman; Martina Pollastrini; Irina Polo; Axel Dalberg Poulsen; John R Poulsen; Freddy Ramirez Arevalo; Zorayda Restrepo-Correa; Mirco Rodeghiero; Samir Rolim; Anand Roopsind; Francesco Rovero; Ervan Rutishauser; Purabi Saikia; Christian Salas-Eljatib; Peter Schall; Dmitry Schepaschenko; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen; Bernhard Schmid; Jochen Schöngart; Eric B Searle; Vladimír Seben; Federico Selvi; Josep M Serra-Diaz; Douglas Sheil; Anatoly Shvidenko; Javier Silva-Espejo; Marcos Silveira; James Singh; Plinio Sist; Ferry Slik; Bonaventure Sonké; Alexandre F Souza; Hans ter Steege; Krzysztof Stereńczak; Jens-Christian Svenning; Miroslav Svoboda; Ben Swanepoel; Natalia Targhetta; Nadja Tchebakova; Raquel Thomas; Elena Tikhonova; Peter Umunay; Vladimir Usoltsev; Renato Valencia; Fernando Valladares; Fons van der Plas; Tran van Do; Michael E van Nuland; Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez; Hans Verbeeck; Helder Viana; Alexander C Vibrans; Simone Vieira; Klaus von Gadow; Hua-Feng Wang; James Watson; Gijsbert D A Werner; Florian Wittmann; Verginia Wortel; Roderick Zagt; Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki; Chunyu Zhang; Xiuhai Zhao; Zhi-Xin Zhu; Irie Casimir Zo-Bi; Daniel S Maynard; Thomas W Crowther

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Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests

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Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests

Iris Hordijk, Lourens Poorter, Jingjing Liang, Peter B Reich, Sergio De-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Javier G P Gamarra, Han Y H Chen, Mo Zhou, Susan K Wiser, …

Nature Communications, Vol.16

22/05/2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7

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Biodiversity

Community ecology

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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Title: Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests
Creators - without role: Iris Hordijk - ETH Zurich
Lourens Poorter - Wageningen University & Research
Jingjing Liang - Purdue University West Lafayette
Peter B Reich - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Sergio De-Miguel - Universitat de Lleida
Gert-Jan Nabuurs - Wageningen University & Research
Javier G P Gamarra - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Han Y H Chen - Lakehead University
Mo Zhou - Purdue University West Lafayette
Susan K Wiser - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Hans Pretzsch - Technical University of Munich
Alain Paquette - Université du Québec à Montréal
Nicolas Picard - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Bruno Hérault - Forests and Societies
Jean-Francois Bastin
Giorgio Alberti - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Meinrad Abegg - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Yves C Adou Yao
Angelica M Almeyda Zambrano
Braulio V Alvarado - Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Esteban Alvarez-Davila - Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Patricia Alvarez-Loayza - Field Museum of Natural History
Luciana F Alves
Iêda Amaral
Christian Ammer - University of Göttingen
Clara Antón-Fernández - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Luzmila Arroyo - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Valerio Avitabile - Joint Research Centre
Gerardo A Aymard C
Timothy Baker - University of Leeds
Olaf Banki - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Jorcely Barroso - Universidade Federal do Acre
Meredith L Bastian - National Academy of Sciences
Luca Birigazzi - United Nations University
Philippe Birnbaum - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Robert Bitariho - Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Pascal Boeckx - Ghent University
Frans Bongers - Wageningen University & Research
Olivier Bouriaud - Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava
Pedro H S Brancalion - Universidade de São Paulo
Susanne Brandl - Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture
Francis Q Brearley - Manchester Metropolitan University
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Eben N Broadbent - University of Florida
Helge Bruelheide - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti
Ricardo G Cesar - Universidade de São Paulo
Goran Cesljar - Institute of Forestry
Robin L Chazdon - University of Connecticut
Chelsea Chisholm - ETH Zurich
Emil Cienciala - Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research
Connie J Clark - Duke University
David B Clark - University of Missouri–St. Louis
Gabriel Colletta - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
David Coomes - Conservation Leadership Programme
Fernando Cornejo Valverde
Jose J Corral-Rivas - Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
Philip Crim - College of Saint Rose
Jonathan Cumming - West Virginia University
Selvadurai Dayanandan - Concordia University
André L de Gasper - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Mathieu Decuyper - Wageningen University & Research
Géraldine Derroire - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Ben Devries - University of Maryland, College Park
Ilija Djordjevic - Institute of Forestry
Aurélie Dourdain - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Jiri Dolezal - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang
Brian Enquist - University of Arizona
Teresa Eyre - State Herbarium of South Australia
Adandé Belarmain Fandohan - Université d'Agriculture de Kétou
Tom M Fayle - Queen Mary University of London
Leandro V Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Ted R Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Leena Finér - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Markus Fischer - University of Bern
Christine Fletcher - Forest Research Institute Malaysia
Lorenzo Frizzera - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Damiano Gianelle - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Henry B Glick - Yale University
David Harris - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Andrew Hector
Andreas Hemp - University of Bayreuth
John Herbohn - University of the Sunshine Coast
Annika Hillers - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Eurídice N Honorio Coronado
Cang Hui - Stellenbosch University
Hyunkook Cho - Korea Forest Service
Thomas Ibanez - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Ilbin Jung - Korea Forest Service
Nobuo Imai - Tokyo University of Agriculture
Andrzej M Jagodzinski - University of Life Sciences in Poznań
Bogdan Jaroszewicz - Białowieża National Park
Vivian Johannsen - University of Copenhagen
Carlos A Joly - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Tommaso Jucker - University of Bristol
Viktor Karminov - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Kuswata Kartawinata - Field Museum of Natural History
Elizabeth Kearsley - Ghent University
David Kenfack - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Deborah Kennard - Colorado Mesa University
Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas - University of Copenhagen
Gunnar Keppel - University of South Australia
Mohammed Latif Khan - Dr. Hari Singh Gour University
Timothy Killeen - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Hyun Seok Kim - Seoul National University
Kanehiro Kitayama - Kyoto University
Michael Köhl
Henn Korjus - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Florian Kraxner - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Diana Laarmann - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Mait Lang - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Simon Lewis - University of Leeds
Huicui Lu - Qingdao Agricultural University
Natalia Lukina
Brian Maitner - Santa Fe Institute
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Eric Marcon - AgroParisTech
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior
Andrew Robert Marshall - University of the Sunshine Coast
Emanuel Martin - College of African Wildlife Management
Olga Martynenko
Jorge A Meave - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Omar Melo-Cruz - University of Tolima
Casimiro Mendoza - Universidad Indígena Quechua Boliviana Casimiro Huanca
Cory Merow - University of Connecticut
Stanislaw Miscicki
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Vanessa Moreno
Sharif A Mukul - University of the Sunshine Coast
Philip Mundhenk - Hamburg Institut
Maria G Nava-Miranda - Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Victor Neldner - State Herbarium of South Australia
Radovan Nevenic - Institute of Forestry
Michael Ngugi - State Herbarium of South Australia
Pascal A Niklaus - University of Zurich
Jacek Oleksyn - Tokyo University of Agriculture
Petr Ontikov - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi - Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Yude Pan - US Forest Service
Alexander Parada-Gutierrez - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Elena Parfenova - Sukachev Institute of Forest
Minjee Park - Purdue University West Lafayette
Marc Parren - Wageningen University & Research
Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy - Pondicherry University
Pablo L Peri - National University of Austral Patagonia
Sebastian Pfautsch - Western Sydney University
Oliver L Phillips - University of Leeds
Maria Teresa Piedade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Daniel Piotto - Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
Nigel C A Pitman - Field Museum of Natural History
Martina Pollastrini - University of Florence
Irina Polo
Axel Dalberg Poulsen - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
John R Poulsen - Duke University
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo - Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana
Zorayda Restrepo-Correa - Fundación Con Vida
Mirco Rodeghiero - Centro Agricoltura Ambiente
Samir Rolim - Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
Anand Roopsind - Boise State University
Francesco Rovero - University of Florence
Ervan Rutishauser
Purabi Saikia - Central University of Jharkhand
Christian Salas-Eljatib
Peter Schall - University of Göttingen
Dmitry Schepaschenko - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen - University of Freiburg
Bernhard Schmid - University of Zurich
Jochen Schöngart - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Eric B Searle - Université du Québec à Montréal
Vladimír Seben - National Forest Centre
Federico Selvi - University of Florence
Josep M Serra-Diaz - AgroParisTech
Douglas Sheil - Wageningen University & Research
Anatoly Shvidenko
Javier Silva-Espejo - University of La Serena
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
James Singh - Guyana Forestry Commission
Plinio Sist - Forests and Societies
Ferry Slik - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Bonaventure Sonké - Université de Yaoundé I
Alexandre F Souza - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Hans ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Krzysztof Stereńczak - Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa
Jens-Christian Svenning
Miroslav Svoboda - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Ben Swanepoel - Wildlife Conservation Society
Natalia Targhetta - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Nadja Tchebakova - Sukachev Institute of Forest
Raquel Thomas - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Elena Tikhonova
Peter Umunay - Yale University
Vladimir Usoltsev - Ural State Forestry Engineering University
Renato Valencia - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Fernando Valladares - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Fons van der Plas - Wageningen University & Research
Tran van Do - Forest Industry Research Institute
Michael E van Nuland - Stanford University
Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez
Hans Verbeeck - Ghent University
Helder Viana - University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Alexander C Vibrans - Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute
Simone Vieira - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Klaus von Gadow - Stellenbosch University
Hua-Feng Wang
James Watson
Gijsbert D A Werner - University of Oxford
Florian Wittmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Verginia Wortel
Roderick Zagt
Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki
Chunyu Zhang - Beijing Forestry University
Xiuhai Zhao - State Forestry and Grassland Administration
Zhi-Xin Zhu
Irie Casimir Zo-Bi - Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Daniel S Maynard - ETH Zurich
Thomas W Crowther - ETH Zurich
Publication Details: Nature Communications, Vol.16
Identifiers: 9934089809311
Academic Unit: BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-05088722