The global spectrum of tree crown architecture

Tommaso Jucker; Fabian Jörg Fischer; Jérôme Chave; David A Coomes; John Caspersen; Arshad Ali; Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou; Ted R Feldpausch; Daniel Falster; Vladimir A Usoltsev; Toby D Jackson; Stephen Adu-Bredu; Luciana F Alves; Mohammad Aminpour; Bhely Angoboy Ilondea; Niels P R Anten; Cécile Antin; Yousef Askari; Narayanan Ayyappan; Lindsay F Banin; Nicolas Barbier; John J Battles; Hans Beeckman; Yannick E Bocko; Ben Bond-Lamberty; Frans Bongers; Samuel Bowers; Michiel van Breugel; Arthur Chantrain; Rajeev Chaudhary; Jingyu Dai; Michele Dalponte; Kangbéni Dimobe; Jean-Christophe Domec; Jean-Louis Doucet; Juan Manuel Dupuy Rada; Remko A Duursma; Moisés Enríquez; Karin Y van Ewijk; William Farfán-Rios; Adeline Fayolle; Marco Ferretti; Eric Forni; David I Forrester; Hammad Gilani; John L Godlee; Matthias Haeni; Jefferson S Hall; Jie-Kun He; Andreas Hemp; José L Hernández-Stefanoni; Steven I Higgins; Robert J Holdaway; Kiramat Hussain; Lindsay B Hutley; Tomoaki Ichie; Yoshiko Iida; Hai-Sheng Jiang; Puspa Raj Joshi; Hasan Kaboli; Maryam Kazempour Larsary; Tanaka Kenzo; Brian D Kloeppel; Takashi S Kohyama; Suwash Kunwar; Shem Kuyah; Jakub Kvasnica; Siliang Lin; Emily R Lines; Hongyan Liu; Craig Lorimer; Jean-Joël Loumeto; Yadvinder Malhi; Peter L Marshall; Eskil Mattsson; Radim Matula; Jorge A Meave; Sylvanus Mensah; Xiangcheng Mi; Stéphane T Momo; Glenn R Moncrieff; Francisco Mora; Rodrigo Muñoz; Sarath P Nissanka; Zamah Shari Nur Hajar; Kevin L O’hara; Steven Pearce; Raphaël Pelissier; Pablo L Peri; Pierre Ploton; Lourens Poorter; Mohsen Javanmiri Pour; Hassan Pourbabaei; Sabina C Ribeiro; Casey Ryan; Anvar Sanaei; Jennifer Sanger; Michael Schlund; Giacomo Sellan; Alexander Shenkin; Bonaventure Sonké; Frank J Sterck; Martin Svátek; Kentaro Takagi; Anna T Trugman; Matthew A Vadeboncoeur; Ahmad Valipour; Mark C Vanderwel; Alejandra G Vovides; Peter Waldner; Weiwei Wang; Li-Qiu Wang; Christian Wirth; Murray Woods; Wenhua Xiang; Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes; Yaozhan Xu; Toshihiro Yamada; Miguel A Zavala; Niklaus E Zimmermann

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The global spectrum of tree crown architecture

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The global spectrum of tree crown architecture

Tommaso Jucker, Fabian Jörg Fischer, Jérôme Chave, David A Coomes, John Caspersen, Arshad Ali, Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Ted R Feldpausch, Daniel Falster, Vladimir A Usoltsev, …

Nature Communications, Vol.16

26/05/2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60262-x

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Ecosystem ecology

Forest 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: The global spectrum of tree crown architecture
Creators - without role: Tommaso Jucker - University of Bristol
Fabian Jörg Fischer - University of Bristol
Jérôme Chave - Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
David A Coomes - University of Cambridge
John Caspersen - University of Toronto
Arshad Ali - Hebei University
Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou - Marien Ngouabi University
Ted R Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Daniel Falster - UNSW Sydney
Vladimir A Usoltsev - Ural State Forest Engineering University
Toby D Jackson - University of Bristol
Stephen Adu-Bredu - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Luciana F Alves - University of California, Los Angeles
Mohammad Aminpour - Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research
Bhely Angoboy Ilondea - Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques
Niels P R Anten - Wageningen University & Research
Cécile Antin - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Yousef Askari - Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research
Narayanan Ayyappan - French Institute of Pondicherry
Lindsay F Banin - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Nicolas Barbier - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
John J Battles - University of California, Berkeley
Hans Beeckman - Royal Museum for Central Africa
Yannick E Bocko - Marien Ngouabi University
Ben Bond-Lamberty - Joint Global Change Research Institute
Frans Bongers - Wageningen University & Research
Samuel Bowers - University of Edinburgh
Michiel van Breugel - Yale-NUS College
Arthur Chantrain - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Rajeev Chaudhary
Jingyu Dai - Peking University
Michele Dalponte - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Kangbéni Dimobe
Jean-Christophe Domec
Jean-Louis Doucet
Juan Manuel Dupuy Rada
Remko A Duursma - Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
Moisés Enríquez - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Karin Y van Ewijk - Queen's University
William Farfán-Rios - Washington University in St. Louis
Adeline Fayolle - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Marco Ferretti - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Eric Forni - Forests and Societies
David I Forrester - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Hammad Gilani - New Mexico State University
John L Godlee - University of Edinburgh
Matthias Haeni - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jefferson S Hall - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Jie-Kun He
Andreas Hemp - University of Bayreuth
José L Hernández-Stefanoni - Secretaría de Investigación, Innovación y Educación Superior
Steven I Higgins - University of Otago
Robert J Holdaway - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Kiramat Hussain
Lindsay B Hutley - Charles Darwin University
Tomoaki Ichie - Kōchi University
Yoshiko Iida - Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Hai-Sheng Jiang
Puspa Raj Joshi - Tribhuvan University
Hasan Kaboli
Maryam Kazempour Larsary
Tanaka Kenzo - Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Brian D Kloeppel - Princeton University
Takashi S Kohyama - Hokkaido University
Suwash Kunwar - Nanjing Forestry University
Shem Kuyah - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Jakub Kvasnica - Mendel University in Brno
Siliang Lin - Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Emily R Lines - University of Cambridge
Hongyan Liu - Peking University
Craig Lorimer - University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jean-Joël Loumeto
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Peter L Marshall - University of British Columbia
Eskil Mattsson - IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Radim Matula - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Jorge A Meave - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Sylvanus Mensah - Université d'Abomey-Calavi
Xiangcheng Mi - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stéphane T Momo
Glenn R Moncrieff - University of Cape Town
Francisco Mora - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Rodrigo Muñoz - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Sarath P Nissanka - University of Peradeniya
Zamah Shari Nur Hajar
Kevin L O’hara - University of California, Berkeley
Steven Pearce
Raphaël Pelissier - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Pablo L Peri - National University of Austral Patagonia
Pierre Ploton - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Lourens Poorter - Wageningen University & Research
Mohsen Javanmiri Pour - Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research
Hassan Pourbabaei - University of Guilan
Sabina C Ribeiro - Universidade Federal do Acre
Casey Ryan - University of Edinburgh
Anvar Sanaei - Leipzig University
Jennifer Sanger
Michael Schlund - University of Twente
Giacomo Sellan - Guiana Space Centre
Alexander Shenkin - Northern Arizona University
Bonaventure Sonké - Université de Yaoundé I
Frank J Sterck - Wageningen University & Research
Martin Svátek - Mendel University in Brno
Kentaro Takagi - Hokkaido University
Anna T Trugman - University of California, Santa Barbara
Matthew A Vadeboncoeur - University of New Hampshire
Ahmad Valipour - University of Kurdistan
Mark C Vanderwel - University of Regina
Alejandra G Vovides - University of Glasgow
Peter Waldner - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Weiwei Wang - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Li-Qiu Wang
Christian Wirth - Leipzig University
Murray Woods - Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Wenhua Xiang - Central South University of Forestry and Technology
Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes - New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Yaozhan Xu - Wuhan Botanical Garden
Toshihiro Yamada - Hiroshima University
Miguel A Zavala - Universidad de Alcalá
Niklaus E Zimmermann - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Publication Details: Nature Communications, Vol.16
Identifiers: 9937044709311
Academic Unit: BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-05088584