The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks
Jazyk angličtina Země Velká Británie, Anglie Médium print-electronic
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PubMed
39406932
PubMed Central
PMC11618071
DOI
10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9
PII: 10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
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- biomasa MeSH
- dřevo * MeSH
- lesy * MeSH
- stromy * růst a vývoj metabolismus MeSH
- uhlík * metabolismus analýza MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Názvy látek
- uhlík * MeSH
The density of wood is a key indicator of the carbon investment strategies of trees, impacting productivity and carbon storage. Despite its importance, the global variation in wood density and its environmental controls remain poorly understood, preventing accurate predictions of global forest carbon stocks. Here we analyse information from 1.1 million forest inventory plots alongside wood density data from 10,703 tree species to create a spatially explicit understanding of the global wood density distribution and its drivers. Our findings reveal a pronounced latitudinal gradient, with wood in tropical forests being up to 30% denser than that in boreal forests. In both angiosperms and gymnosperms, hydrothermal conditions represented by annual mean temperature and soil moisture emerged as the primary factors influencing the variation in wood density globally. This indicates similar environmental filters and evolutionary adaptations among distinct plant groups, underscoring the essential role of abiotic factors in determining wood density in forest ecosystems. Additionally, our study highlights the prominent role of disturbance, such as human modification and fire risk, in influencing wood density at more local scales. Factoring in the spatial variation of wood density notably changes the estimates of forest carbon stocks, leading to differences of up to 21% within biomes. Therefore, our research contributes to a deeper understanding of terrestrial biomass distribution and how environmental changes and disturbances impact forest ecosystems.
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AgroParisTech UMR AMAP Cirad CNRS INRA IRD Université de Montpellier Montpellier France
AMAP Univ Montpellier CIRAD CNRS INRAE IRD Montpellier France
AMAP Univ Montpellier Montpellier France
Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program Madre de Dios Peru
Bavarian State Institute of Forestry Freising Germany
Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russian Federation
Center for Natural Climate Solutions Conservation International Arlington TX USA
Center for Tropical Research Institute of the Environment and Sustainability UCLA Los Angeles CA USA
Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname Paramaribo Suriname
Centre for Conservation Science The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Sandy UK
Centre for Forest Research Université du Québec à Montréal Montréal Québec Canada
Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle Jena Leipzig Leipzig Germany
Centro Agricoltura Alimenti Ambiente University of Trento San Michele All'adige Italy
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza Universidade Federal do Acre Rio Branco Brazil
Centro Multidisciplinar Universidade Federal do Acre Rio Branco Brazil
CIRAD CNRS INRAE IRD Montpellier France
Cirad UMR EcoFoG Campus Agronomique Kourou French Guiana
Cirad UPR Forêts et Sociétés University of Montpellier Montpellier France
Climate Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences USDA Forest Service Durham NC USA
Colegio de Profesionales Forestales de Cochabamba Cochabamba Bolivia
Compensation International S A Ci Progress GreenLife Bogotá Colombia
CTFS ForestGEO Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama City Panama
Departamento de Biología Universidad de la Serena La Serena Chile
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso Nova Xavantina Brazil
Departamento de Ecologia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Natal Brazil
Departamento de Gestión Forestal y su Medio Ambiente Universidad de Chile Santiago Chile
Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering University of Lleida Lleida Spain
Department of Agricultural Food Environmental and Animal Sciences University of Udine Udine Italy
Department of Agriculture Food Environment and Forest University of Firenze Florence Italy
Department of Agriculture Forestry and Bioresources Seoul National University Seoul South Korea
Department of Biological Geological and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy
Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA USA
Department of Biology University of Florence Florence Italy
Department of Biology University of Missouri St Louis St Louis MO USA
Department of Biology University of Oxford Oxford UK
Department of Biology West Virginia University Morgantown WV USA
Department of Botany Banaras Hindu University Varanasi India
Department of Botany Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya Sagar India
Department of Botany Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia České Budějovice Czech Republic
Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Pondicherry University Puducherry India
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona Tucson AZ USA
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut Storrs CT USA
Department of Environment and Development Studies United International University Dhaka Bangladesh
Department of Environment and Geography University of York York UK
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University Durham NC USA
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zürich Zurich Switzerland
Department of Forest and Wood Science University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch South Africa
Department of Forest Engineering Universidade Regional de Blumenau Blumenau Brazil
Department of Forest Resources University of Minnesota St Paul MN USA
Department of Forest Science Tokyo University of Agriculture Tokyo Japan
Department of Forestry and Environment National Polytechnic Institute Yamoussoukro Côte d'Ivoire
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources Purdue University West Lafayette IN USA
Department of Game Management and Forest Protection Poznań University of Life Sciences Poznań Poland
Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment University College London London UK
Department of Geography Environment and Geomatics University of Guelph Guelph Ontario Canada
Department of Geography Remote Sensing Laboratories University of Zürich Zurich Switzerland
Department of Geography University College London London UK
Department of Geomatics Forest Research Institute Sękocin Stary Poland
Department of Natural Sciences Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester UK
Department of Physical and Biological Sciences The College of Saint Rose Albany NY USA
Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences Colorado Mesa University Grand Junction CO USA
Department of Plant Biology Institute of Biology University of Campinas Campinas Brazil
Department of Plant Systematics University of Bayreuth Bayreuth Germany
Department of Spatial Regulation GIS and Forest Policy Institute of Forestry Belgrade Serbia
Department of Wildlife Management College of African Wildlife Management Mweka Tanzania
Department of Zoology University of Oxford Oxford UK
Division of Forest and Forest Resources Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research Ås Norway
Division of Forest Resources Information Korea Forest Promotion Institute Seoul South Korea
Division of Forestry and Natural Resources West Virginia University Morgantown WV USA
Ecole de Foresterie et Ingénierie du Bois Université Nationale d'Agriculture Kétou Benin
Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Brasilia Brazil
Environmental Change Institute School of Geography and the Environment Oxford UK
Environmental Studies and Research Center University of Campinas Campinas Brazil
European Commission Joint Research Center Ispra Italy
Faculty of Biology Białowieża Geobotanical Station University of Warsaw Białowieża Poland
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Czech Republic
Faculty of Forestry Qingdao Agricultural University Qingdao China
Faculty of Natural Resources Management Lakehead University Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
Field Museum of Natural History Chicago IL USA
Flamingo Land Ltd Kirby Misperton UK
Forest Research Institute Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Forest Research Institute University of the Sunshine Coast Sippy Downs Queensland Australia
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia Solsona Spain
Forestry Consultant Grosseto Italy
Forestry Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome Italy
Forestry School Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC Cartago Costa Rica
Fundacion Con Vida Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia Medellin Colombia
Geobotany Faculty of Biology University of Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau Germany
Geography Faculty of Environment Science and Economy University of Exeter Exeter UK
Glick Designs LLC Hadley MA USA
Global Change Research Institute CAS Brno Czech Republic
Graduate School of Agriculture Kyoto University Kyoto Japan
Guyana Forestry Commission Georgetown French Guiana
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Penrith New South Wales Australia
IFER Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research Jilove u Prahy Czech Republic
Independent Researcher Sommersbergseestrasse Bad Aussee Austria
Institut Agronomique néo Calédonien Nouméa New Caledonia
Institute for World Forestry University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Institute of Botany The Czech Academy of Sciences Třeboň Czech Republic
Institute of Dendrology Polish Academy of Sciences Kórnik Poland
Institute of Environmental Sciences Leiden University Leiden the Netherlands
Institute of Forestry and Engineering Estonian University of Life Sciences Tartu Estonia
Institute of Forestry Belgrade Serbia
Institute of Integrative Biology ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland
Institute of Plant Sciences University of Bern Bern Switzerland
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana Iquitos Peru
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria Río Gallegos Argentina
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg Austria
IRET Herbier National du Gabon Libreville Gabon
Isotope Bioscience Laboratory ISOFYS Ghent University Ghent Belgium
Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development Georgetown French Guiana
Jardín Botánico de Medellín Medellin Colombia
Jardín Botánico de Missouri Oxapampa Peru
LINCGlobal Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales CSIC Madrid Spain
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Lincoln New Zealand
Museo de Historia natural Noel kempff Mercado Santa Cruz Bolivia
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia Belém Brazil
National Biodiversity Future Center Palermo Italy
National Center for Agro Meteorology Seoul South Korea
National Forest Centre Forest Research Institute Zvolen Zvolen Slovakia
National Institute of Amazonian Research Manaus Brazil
Natural Resources Institute Finland Joensuu Finland
Natural Science Department Universidade Regional de Blumenau Blumenau Brazil
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden the Netherlands
Negaunee Integrative Research Center Field Museum of Natural History Chicago IL USA
Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University Durham NC USA
Peoples Friendship University of Russia Moscow Russian Federation
Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group Wageningen University Wageningen the Netherlands
Polish State Forests Coordination Center for Environmental Projects Warsaw Poland
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Quito Ecuador
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Washington DC USA
Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics Department of Biology Utrecht University Utrecht the Netherlands
Research and Innovation Center Fondazione Edmund Mach San Michele All'adige Italy
Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences Seoul National University Seoul South Korea
Rhino and Forest Fund e 5 Kehl Germany
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
Santa Catarina State University Lages Brazil
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences Queen Mary University of London London UK
School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol Bristol UK
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University New Haven CT USA
School of Geography University of Leeds Leeds UK
School of Social Sciences Western Sydney University Penrith New South Wales Australia
Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Department of Biology Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk Russian Federation
Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany
Silviculture Research Institute Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences Hanoi Vietnam
Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava Suceava Romania
Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute iuFOR University Valladolid Valladolid Spain
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL Birmensdorf Switzerland
TERRA Teach and Research Centre Gembloux Agro Bio Tech University of Liege Liege Belgium
The Nature Conservancy Boulder CO USA
The Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe NM USA
Theoretical Ecology Unit African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Cape Town South Africa
Tropenbos International Wageningen the Netherlands
Tropical Biodiversity MUSE Museo delle Scienze Trento Italy
UFR Biosciences University Félix Houphouët Boigny Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire
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Universidad Estatal Amazónica Puyo Ecuador
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