Canopy functional trait variation across Earth's tropical forests
Jazyk angličtina Země Velká Británie, Anglie Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
PubMed
40044867
PubMed Central
PMC12043511
DOI
10.1038/s41586-025-08663-2
PII: 10.1038/s41586-025-08663-2
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- MeSH
- biodiverzita MeSH
- lesy * MeSH
- listy rostlin fyziologie chemie anatomie a histologie MeSH
- nejistota MeSH
- půda chemie MeSH
- stromy * fyziologie anatomie a histologie chemie klasifikace MeSH
- tropické klima MeSH
- Země (planeta) * MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Afrika MeSH
- Asie MeSH
- Názvy látek
- půda MeSH
Tropical forest canopies are the biosphere's most concentrated atmospheric interface for carbon, water and energy1,2. However, in most Earth System Models, the diverse and heterogeneous tropical forest biome is represented as a largely uniform ecosystem with either a singular or a small number of fixed canopy ecophysiological properties3. This situation arises, in part, from a lack of understanding about how and why the functional properties of tropical forest canopies vary geographically4. Here, by combining field-collected data from more than 1,800 vegetation plots and tree traits with satellite remote-sensing, terrain, climate and soil data, we predict variation across 13 morphological, structural and chemical functional traits of trees, and use this to compute and map the functional diversity of tropical forests. Our findings reveal that the tropical Americas, Africa and Asia tend to occupy different portions of the total functional trait space available across tropical forests. Tropical American forests are predicted to have 40% greater functional richness than tropical African and Asian forests. Meanwhile, African forests have the highest functional divergence-32% and 7% higher than that of tropical American and Asian forests, respectively. An uncertainty analysis highlights priority regions for further data collection, which would refine and improve these maps. Our predictions represent a ground-based and remotely enabled global analysis of how and why the functional traits of tropical forest canopies vary across space.
AMAP Université de Montpellier IRD CNRS CIRAD INRAE Montpellier France
Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling Stirling UK
Birmingham Institute of Forest Research University of Birmingham Birmingham UK
Botany School of Natural Sciences Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland
Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Campinas Brazil
Center for Energy Environment and Sustainability Wake Forest University Winston Salem NC USA
Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza Universidade Federal do Acre Rio Branco Brazil
Cirad UMR EcoFoG Campus Agronomique Kourou French Guiana
Colegiado de Ecologia Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco Senhor do Bonfim Brazil
Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango Durango Mexico
College of Science and Engineering James Cook University Cairns Queensland Australia
Coordenação de Biodiversidade Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Brazil
Coordenação de Dinâmica Ambiental Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Manaus Brazil
CSIR Forestry Research Institute of Ghana Kumasi Ghana
Departamento de Biologia Geral Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros Montes Claros Brazil
Departamento de Biologia Universidade Federal de Rondônia Porto Velho Brazil
Departamento de Engenharia Florestal Universidade de Brasília Brasília Brazil
Departamento de Engenharia Florestal Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso Caceres Brazil
Departamento de Engenharia Florestal Universidade Federal de Lavras Lavras Brazil
Department for Accelerated Taxonomy Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond UK
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden
Department of Biology Sonoma State University Rohnert Park CA USA
Department of Biology Wake Forest University Winston Salem NC USA
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona Tucson AZ USA
Department of Ecology Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
Department of Geography University of Exeter Exeter UK
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology University of Turin Turin Italy
Department of Natural Resources Management CSIR College of Science and Technology Kumasi Ghana
Department of Natural Sciences Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester UK
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental Belém Brazil
Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Brasília Brazil
Environmental and Rural Science University of New England Armidale New South Wales Australia
Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto Ribeirão Preto Brazil
Faculty of Communication and Environment Hochschule Rhein Waal Kamp Lintfort Germany
Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro Seropedica Brazil
Forest Ecology Department KSCSTE Kerala Forest Research Institute Kerala India
Forêts et Sociétés Université de Montpellier CIRAD Montpellier France
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle Jena Leipzig Leipzig Germany
Global Green Growth Institute Rwanda Program Kigali Rwanda
IBAM Instituto Bem Ambiental Belo Horizonte Brazil
INRAE Université de Lorraine AgroParisTech UMR Silva Nancy France
Institut de Recherche en Écologie Tropicale Libreville Gabon
Institute for Nature Earth and Energy Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Lima Peru
Institute of Biogeosciences IBG2 Plant Sciences Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Jülich Germany
Institute of Ecology Leuphana University of Lüneburg Lüneburg Germany
Instituto de Biologia Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador Brazil
Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Instituto Internacional para Sustentabilidade Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Instituto Socioambiental São Paulo Brazil
Jardín Botánico de Bogotá Bogotá Colombia
Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso Nova Xavantina Brazil
Laboratório de Manejo Florestal Universidade do Estado do Amapá Macapá Brazil
Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster UK
Leipzig University Leipzig Germany
Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery University of Oxford Oxford UK
Ministry of Water and Forests Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire
Myr Projetos Sustentáveis Belo Horizonte Brazil
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden The Netherlands
Plant Ecology and Evolution Department of Ecology and Genetics Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
Plant Ecology Lab Ecology Department Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
PPG Ecology and Conservation Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso Nova Xavantina Brazil
Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond UK
School of Biological Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen UK
School of Biological Sciences University of Adelaide Adelaide South Australia Australia
School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich UK
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Birmingham Birmingham UK
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Plymouth Plymouth UK
School of Geography University of Leeds Leeds UK
School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
School of Informatics Computing and Cyber Systems Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ USA
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK
The Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe USA
UMRI SAPT Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët Boigny Yamoussoukro Côte d'Ivoire
Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia
Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso Tangará da Serra Brazil
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso Sinop Brazil
Universidade Federal do Acre Rio Branco Brazil
Universidade Paulista Polo Rio Branco Brazil
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