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Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Authors: Sanchez-Martinez, P.; Dexter, K.G.; Draper, F.C.; Baraloto, C.; Leão do Amaral, I.; de Souza Coelho, L.; de Almeida Matos, F.D.; de Andrade Lima Filho, D.; Salomão, R.P.; Wittmann, F.; Castilho, C.V.; de Jesus Veiga Carim, M.; Guevara, J.E.; Phillips, O.L.; Magnusson, W.E.; Sabatier, D.; Cardenas Revilla, J.D.; Molino, J.F.; Irume, M.V.; Pires Martins, M.; da Silva Guimarães, J.R.; Ferreira Ramos, J.; Bánki, O.S.; Fernandez Piedade, M.T.; Cárdenas López, D.; Pitman, N.C.A.; Demarchi, L.O.; Schöngart, J.; Garcia Luize, B.; Moraes de Leão Novo, E.M.; Núñez Vargas, P.; Freire Silva, T.S.; Martins Venticinque, E.; Manzatto, A.G.; Costa Reis, N.F.; Terborgh, J.; Casula, K.R.; Honorio Coronado, E.N.; Monteagudo Mendoza, A.; Montero, J.C.; Costa, F.R.C.; Feldpausch, T.R.; Costa Quaresma, A.; Castaño Arboleda, N.; Zartman, C.E.; Killeen, T.J.; Marimon, B.S.; Marimon-Junior, B.H.; Vasquez, R.; Mostacedo, B.; Assis, R.L.; Dantas do Amaral, D.; Engel, J.; Castellanos, H.; Brilhante de Medeiros, M.; Fragomeni Simon, M.; Andrade, A.; Camargo, J.L.; Laurance, W.F.; Laurance, S.G.W.; Maniguaje Rincón, L.; Schietti, J.; Sousa, T.R.; de Sousa Farias, E.; Lopes, M.A.; Lima Magalhães, J.L.; Mendonça Nascimento, H.E.; Lima de Queiroz, H.; Aymard, G.; Brienen, R.; Stevenson, P.R.; Araujo-Murakami, A.; Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, B.; Baker, T.R.; Oliveira Feitosa, Y.; Mogollón, H.F.; Peres, C.A.; Silman, M.R.; Ferreira, L.V.; Lozada, J.R.; Comiskey, J.A.; de Toledo, J.J.; Damasco, G.; Dávila, N.; García-Villacorta, R.; Lopes, A.; Vicentini, A.; Cornejo Valverde, F.; Alonso, A.; Arroyo, L.; Dallmeier, F.; Gomes, V.H.F.; Neill, D.; Peñuela Mora, M.C.; Costa Noronha, J.; de Aguiar, D.P.P.; Rodrigues Barbosa, F.; Bredin, Y.K.; de Sá Carpanedo, R.; Antunes Carvalho, F.; Coelho de Souza, F.; Feeley, K.J.; Gribel, R.; Haugaasen, T.; Hawes, J.E.; Petratti Pansonato, M.; Pipoly, J.J.; Ríos Paredes, M.; de Jesus Rodrigues, D.; Barlow, J.; Berenguer, E.; Brasil da Silva, I.; Ferreira, M.J.; Ferreira, J.; Fine, P.V.A.; Carneiro Guedes, M.; Levis, C.; Licona, J.C.; Villa Zegarra, B.E.; Vos, V.A.; Cerón, C.; Machado Durgante, F.; Fonty, É.; Henkel, T.W.; Householder, J.E.; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I.; Silveira, M.; Stropp, J.; Thomas, R.; Daly, D.; Milliken, W.; Pardo Molina, G.; Pennington, T.; Guimarães Vieira, I.C.; Weiss Albuquerque, B.; Campelo, W.; Fuentes, A.; Klitgaard, B.; Marcelo Pena, J.L.; Tello, J.S.; Vriesendorp, C.; Chave, J.; Di Fiore, A.; Hilário, R.R.; de Oliveira Pereira, L.; Phillips, J.F.; Rivas-Torres, G.; van Andel, T.R.; von Hildebrand, P.; Balee, W.; Marques Barbosa, E.; de Matos Bonates, L.C.; Dávila Doza, H.P.; Zárate Gómez, R.; Gonzales, T.; Gallardo Gonzales, G.P.; Hoffman, B.; Braga Junqueira, A.; Malhi, Y.; de Andrade Miranda, I.P.; Mozombite Pinto, L.F.; Prieto, A.; Rudas, A.; Ruschel, A.R.; Silva, N.; Vela, C.I.A.; Zent, S.; Zent, E.L.; Cano, A.; Carrero Márquez, Y.A.; Correa, D.F.; Pedrosa Costa, J.B.; Monteiro Flores, B.; Galbraith, D.; Holmgren, M.; Kalamandeen, M.; Lobo, G.; Montenegro, L.T.; Trindade Nascimento, M.; Oliveira, A.A.; Pombo, M.M.; Ramirez-Angulo, H.; Rocha, M.; Vizoni Scudeller, V.; Umaña, M.N.; van der Heijden, G.; Vilanova Torre, E.; Baider, C.; Balslev, H.; Cárdenas, S.; Casas, L.F.; Farfan-Rios, W.; Ferreira, C.; Linares-Palomino, R.; Mendoza, C.; Mesones, I.; Parada, G.A.; Torres-Lezama, A.; Villarroel, D.; Zagt, R.; Alexiades, M.N.; Almeida de Oliveira, E.; Fortier, R.P.; Garcia-Cabrera, K.; Hernandez, L.; Cuenca, W.P.; Pansini, S.; Pauletto, D.; Ramirez Arevalo, F.; Felipe Sampaio, A.; Valderrama Sandoval, E.H.; Valenzuela Gamarra, L.; van der Sande, M.; Poorter, L.; ter Steege, H.
Publisher: British Ecological Society
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Functional Ecology
Journal name in source: Functional Ecology
ISSN: 0269-8463
eISSN: 1365-2435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14700(external)
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14700(external)
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/477355601(external)
1. Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe the variability of strategies involving leaf, wood and demographic characteristics for tree genera distributed across the Amazon Region, and quantify phylogenetic signal for the characteristics and their relationships.
2. Leaf and wood traits are aligned with demographic variables along two main axes of variation. The first axis represents the coordination of leaf traits describing resource uptake and use, wood density, seed mass, and survival. The second axis represents the coordination between size and growth. Both axes show strong phylogenetic signal, suggesting a constrained evolution influenced by ancestral values, yet the second axis also has an additional, substantial portion of its variation that is driven by functional correlations unrelated to phylogeny, suggesting simultaneously higher evolutionary lability and coordination.
3. Synthesis. Our results suggest that life history strategies of tropical trees are generally phylogenetically conserved, but that tree lineages may have some capability of responding to environmental changes by modulating their growth and size. Overall, we provide the largest-scale synopsis of functional characteristics of Amazonian trees, showing substantial nuance in the evolutionary patterns of individual characteristics and their relationships.
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Funding information in the publication:
Pablo Sanchez-Martinez acknowledges an FPU predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades) (grant FPU18/04945).
