The global spectrum of tree crown architecture
Jazyk angličtina Země Anglie, Velká Británie Médium electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
Grantová podpora
NE/S01537X/1
RCUK | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
PubMed
40419494
PubMed Central
PMC12106748
DOI
10.1038/s41467-025-60262-x
PII: 10.1038/s41467-025-60262-x
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- MeSH
- biologická evoluce MeSH
- ekosystém MeSH
- fotosyntéza MeSH
- fylogeneze MeSH
- podnebí MeSH
- stonky rostlin * anatomie a histologie MeSH
- stromy * anatomie a histologie fyziologie klasifikace MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Trees can differ enormously in their crown architectural traits, such as the scaling relationships between tree height, crown width and stem diameter. Yet despite the importance of crown architecture in shaping the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems, we lack a complete picture of what drives this incredible diversity in crown shapes. Using data from 374,888 globally distributed trees, we explore how climate, disturbance, competition, functional traits, and evolutionary history constrain the height and crown width scaling relationships of 1914 tree species. We find that variation in height-diameter scaling relationships is primarily controlled by water availability and light competition. Conversely, crown width is predominantly shaped by exposure to wind and fire, while also covarying with functional traits related to mechanical stability and photosynthesis. Additionally, we identify several plant lineages with highly distinctive stem and crown forms, such as the exceedingly slender dipterocarps of Southeast Asia, or the extremely wide crowns of legume trees in African savannas. Our study charts the global spectrum of tree crown architecture and pinpoints the processes that shape the 3D structure of woody ecosystems.
AMAP lab Montpellier University IRD CIRAD CNRS INRAE Montpellier France
Bordeaux Sciences Agro UMR ISPA INRAE Bordeaux France
Center for Crop Systems Analysis Wageningen University and Research Wageningen Netherlands
Center of Conservation Biology Core Botanical Gardens Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430074 China
Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg 79106 Freiburg Germany
CIRAD UPR Forêts et Sociétés F 34398 Montpellier France
Conservation Research Institute University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3EA UK
CSIRO Environment GPO Box 1700 Canberra ACT Australia
Department of Biology University of Regina 3737 Wascana Pkwy Regina SK S4S 0A2 Canada
Department of Biology Washington University in St Louis St Louis MO 63130 USA
Department of Botany University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin 9016 New Zealand
Department of Crop Science Faculty of Agriculture University of Peradeniya Peradeniya Sri Lanka
Department of Ecology French Institute of Pondicherry Puducherry 605014 India
Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology University of Wisconsin Madison Madison WI 53706 USA
Department of Forestry Faculty of Natural Resources University of Guilan Somehsara 43619 96196 Iran
Department of Geography and Planning Queen's University Kingston ON Canada
Department of Geography University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA
Department of Geography University of Cambridge Downing Place Cambridge CB2 3EN UK
Division Forest Office Ministry of Forest Sudurpashchim province Dhangadhi Nepal
Earth Systems Research Center University of New Hampshire Durham NH 03824 USA
Evolution and Ecology Research Centre University of New South Wales Sydney NSW Sydney Australia
Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Science Kochi University B200 Monobe Nankoku Kochi 783 8502 Japan
Faculty of Desert Studies Semnan University Semnan Iran
Faculty of Environment Science and Economy University of Exeter Exeter EX4 4QE UK
Faculty of Environmental Earth Science Hokkaido University Sapporo 060 0810 Japan
Faculty of Forestry University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada
Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere Hokkaido University Horonobe 098 2943 Japan
Forest Ecology Research Group College of Life Sciences Hebei University Baoding 071002 Hebei China
Forestry and Environment Division Forest Research Institute Malaysia Kepong Selangor 52109 Malaysia
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute 1 Matsunosato Tsukuba Ibaraki 305 8687 Japan
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle Jena Leipzig Leipzig Germany
Gilgit Baltistan Forest Wildlife and Environment Department Gilgit Pakistan
Global Science The Nature Conservancy Cape Town South Africa
Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre Gothenburg Sweden
Graduate School of Integrated Sciences of Life Hiroshima University Hiroshima 739 8521 Japan
Institute of Forestry Tribhuvan University Hetauda Campus Hetauda 44107 Nepal
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Aschebergsgatan 44 411 33 Göteborg Sweden
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences Tsukuba Ibaraki 305 8686 Japan
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology 62000 00200 Nairobi Kenya
Landcare Research PO Box 69040 Lincoln 7640 New Zealand
Natural Recourses and Watershed Management Office West Azerbaijan Province Urmia Iran
Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University Durham NC USA
Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources North Bay ON P1A 4L7 Canada
Plant and Environmental Sciences New Mexico State University Las Cruces NM 88003 USA
School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1TQ UK
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences University of Glasgow East Quadrangle Glasgow UK
School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FF UK
Service of Wood Biology Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren Belgium
Statistics Netherlands Henri Faasdreef 312 2492 JP Den Haag Netherlands
The Tree Projects Hobart TAS Australia
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Edinburgh UK
UMR EcoFoG CIRAD Campus Agronomique 97310 Kourou French Guiana
Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral Río Gallegos Santa Cruz Argentina
Université de Liège Gembloux Agro Bio Tech Gembloux Belgium
Université Pédagogique Nationale BP 8815 Kinshasa Ngaliema Democratic Republic of the Congo
University of Bayreuth Department of Plant Systematics Universitätsstr 30 31 95440 Bayreuth Germany
University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 USA
Wageningen Environmental Research Wageningen University and Research 6708PB Wageningen Netherlands
Yale NUS College 12 College Avenue West 138610 Singapore Singapore
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