Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert; Oliver Phillips; Roel Brienen; Sophie Fauset; Martin Sullivan; Timothy Baker; Kuo-Jung Chao; Ted 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; Esteban Alvarez Dávila; Jhon del Aguila Pasquel; Everton Almeida; Patricia Alvarez Loayza; Ana Andrade; Luiz Aragão; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Eric Arets; Luzmila Arroyo; Gerardo Aymard C.; Michel Baisie; Christopher Baraloto; Plínio Barbosa Camargo; Jorcely Barroso; Lilian Blanc; Damien Bonal; Frans Bongers; René Boot; Foster Brown; Benoît Burban; José Luís Camargo; Wendeson Castro; Victor Chama Moscoso; Jérôme Chave; James Comiskey; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Antonio Lola da Costa; Nallaret Davila Cardozo; Anthony Di Fiore; Aurélie K. Dourdain; Terry Erwin; Gerardo Flores Llampazo; Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira; Rafael Herrera; Eurídice Honorio Coronado; Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; Eliana Jimenez-Rojas; Timothy Killeen; Susan Laurance; William Laurance; Aurora Levesley; Simon Lewis; Karina Liana Lisboa Melgaço Ladvocat; Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez; Thomas Lovejoy; Patrick Meir; Casimiro Mendoza; Paulo Morandi; David Neill; Adriano José Nogueira Lima; Percy Nuñez Vargas; Edmar Almeida de Oliveira; Nadir Pallqui Camacho; Guido Pardo; Julie Peacock; Marielos Peña-Claros; Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora; Georgia Pickavance; John Pipoly; Nigel Pitman; Adriana Prieto; Thomas Pugh; Carlos Quesada; Hirma Ramirez-Angulo; Simone Matias de Almeida Reis; M. Réjou-Méchain; Zorayda Restrepo Correa; Lily Rodriguez Bayona; Agustín Rudas; Rafael Salomão; Julio Serrano; Javier Silva Espejo; Natalino Silva; James Singh; Clement Stahl; Juliana Stropp; Varun Swamy; Joey Talbot; Hans ter Steege; John Terborgh; Raquel Thomas; Marisol Toledo; Armando Torres-Lezama; Luis Valenzuela Gamarra; Geertje van Der Heijden; Peter van Der Meer; Peter van Der Hout; Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez; Simone Aparecida Vieira; Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo; Vincent Vos; Roderick Zagt; Pieter Zuidema; David Galbraith

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Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

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Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Oliver Phillips, Roel Brienen, Sophie Fauset, Martin Sullivan, Timothy Baker, Kuo-Jung Chao, Ted Feldpausch, Emanuel Gloor, Niro Higuchi, …

Nature Communications, Vol.11(1)

12/2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3

Abstract

Carbon sink

Amazonia

Growth–survival trade-off

Tree mortality

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.

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Title: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
Creators - without role: Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert - University of Birmingham
Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Sophie Fauset - University of Plymouth
Martin Sullivan - University of Leeds
Timothy Baker - University of Leeds
Kuo-Jung Chao
Ted Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Emanuel Gloor - University of Leeds
Niro Higuchi - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jeanne Houwing-Duistermaat
Jon Lloyd - Imperial College London
Haiyan Liu - University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Beatriz Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben Hur Marimon Junior
Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza
Lourens Poorter - Wageningen University & Research
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
Emilio Vilanova Torre
Esteban Alvarez Dávila - Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Jhon del Aguila Pasquel - Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
Everton Almeida
Patricia Alvarez Loayza
Ana Andrade - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Luiz Aragão
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Eric Arets
Luzmila Arroyo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Gerardo Aymard C.
Michel Baisie - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Christopher Baraloto - Florida International University
Plínio Barbosa Camargo
Jorcely Barroso - Universidade Federal do Acre
Lilian Blanc - Forests and Societies
Damien Bonal - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Frans Bongers - Wageningen University & Research
René Boot - Utrecht University
Foster Brown - Woodwell Climate Research Center
Benoît Burban - Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
José Luís Camargo - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Wendeson Castro - Universidade Federal do Acre
Victor Chama Moscoso
Jérôme Chave - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
James Comiskey - National Park Service
Fernando Cornejo Valverde - Amazon National University of Madre de Dios
Antonio Lola da Costa - Universidade Federal do Pará
Nallaret Davila Cardozo
Anthony Di Fiore - The University of Texas at Austin
Aurélie K. Dourdain - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Terry Erwin - National Museum of Natural History
Gerardo Flores Llampazo - Jorge Basadre Grohmann National University
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Rafael Herrera - Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Eurídice Honorio Coronado
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Eliana Jimenez-Rojas
Timothy Killeen
Susan Laurance
William Laurance - James Cook University
Aurora Levesley - University of Leeds
Simon Lewis - University College London
Karina Liana Lisboa Melgaço Ladvocat - University of Leeds
Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez - University of Leeds
Thomas Lovejoy - George Mason University
Patrick Meir - Australian National University
Casimiro Mendoza - University of San Simón
Paulo Morandi - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Adriano José Nogueira Lima
Percy Nuñez Vargas - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Edmar Almeida de Oliveira - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Nadir Pallqui Camacho - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Guido Pardo - Universidad Autónoma del Beni
Julie Peacock - University of Leeds
Marielos Peña-Claros - Wageningen University & Research
Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora
Georgia Pickavance - University of Leeds
John Pipoly
Nigel Pitman
Adriana Prieto - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Thomas Pugh
Carlos Quesada - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Hirma Ramirez-Angulo - University of the Andes
Simone Matias de Almeida Reis
M. Réjou-Méchain - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Zorayda Restrepo Correa
Lily Rodriguez Bayona
Agustín Rudas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Rafael Salomão - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Julio Serrano - University of the Andes
Javier Silva Espejo - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Natalino Silva - Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia
James Singh - Guyana Forestry Commission
Clement Stahl - AgroParisTech
Juliana Stropp - Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Varun Swamy
Joey Talbot - University of Leeds
Hans ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
John Terborgh - University of Florida
Raquel Thomas - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Marisol Toledo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Armando Torres-Lezama - University of the Andes
Luis Valenzuela Gamarra
Geertje van Der Heijden - University of Nottingham
Peter van Der Meer - Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
Peter van Der Hout
Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez
Simone Aparecida Vieira - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Jeanneth Villalobos Cayo - University of Saint Francis Xavier
Vincent Vos - Universidad Autónoma del Beni
Roderick Zagt
Pieter Zuidema - Wageningen University & Research
David Galbraith - University of Leeds
Publication Details: Nature Communications, Vol.11(1)
Identifiers: 9938511509311
Academic Unit: BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-03005990