Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change
Copyright policy )Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change
AbstractMost of the planet's diversity is concentrated in the tropics, which includes many regions undergoing rapid climate change. Yet, while climate‐induced biodiversity changes are widely documented elsewhere, few studies have addressed this issue for lowland tropical ecosystems. Here we investigate whether the floristic and functional composition of intact lowland Amazonian forests have been changing by evaluating records from 106 long‐term inventory plots spanning 30 years. We analyse three traits that have been hypothesized to respond to different environmental drivers (increase in moisture stress and atmospheric CO2 concentrations): maximum tree size, biogeographic water‐deficit affiliation and wood density. Tree communities have become increasingly dominated by large‐statured taxa, but to date there has been no detectable change in mean wood density or water deficit affiliation at the community level, despite most forest plots having experienced an intensification of the dry season. However, among newly recruited trees, dry‐affiliated genera have become more abundant, while the mortality of wet‐affiliated genera has increased in those plots where the dry season has intensified most. Thus, a slow shift to a more dry‐affiliated Amazonia is underway, with changes in compositional dynamics (recruits and mortality) consistent with climate‐change drivers, but yet to significantly impact whole‐community composition. The Amazon observational record suggests that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is driving a shift within tree communities to large‐statured species and that climate changes to date will impact forest composition, but long generation times of tropical trees mean that biodiversity change is lagging behind climate change.
[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Physiology, WOOD DENSITY, Tropical forests, Biodiversity & Conservation, TROPICAL FORESTS, DIVERSITY, Forests, Tropic Climate, Trees, temporal trends, traits, CARBON STORAGE, [SDV.EE.ECO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems, SDG 13 - Climate Action, Climate change, Lowland Environment, functional traits, General Environmental Science, tropical forests, Global and Planetary Change, GE, Ecology, PERVASIVE ALTERATION, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, Biodiversity, [SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics, Classification, climate change, NEOTROPICAL FOREST, Biodiversity Conservation, GROWTH, TREE COMMUNITIES, Seasons, environment/Ecosystems, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, compositional shifts, Tree, Functional traits, Brazil, GE Environmental Sciences, 570, VEGETATION DYNAMICS, Climate Change, Temporal trends, bioclimatic niches, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, DROUGHT SENSITIVITY, 333, [SDV.BV.BOT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics, bioclimatic niches; climate change; compositional shifts; functional traits; temporal trends; tropical forests, Amazonia, Niche, [SDV.BID.SPT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, Tropical Forest, Environmental Chemistry, Forest, Compositional shifts, Temporal Variation, Ecosystem, 580, Tropical Climate, Science & Technology, Bioclimatic niches, Research, Bioclimatology, Brasil, Water, DAS, Carbon Dioxide, Primary Research Articles, Floristics, Climatic change, [SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, functional, Legacy, Earth and Environmental Sciences, [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, Season, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Environmental Sciences
[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Physiology, WOOD DENSITY, Tropical forests, Biodiversity & Conservation, TROPICAL FORESTS, DIVERSITY, Forests, Tropic Climate, Trees, temporal trends, traits, CARBON STORAGE, [SDV.EE.ECO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems, SDG 13 - Climate Action, Climate change, Lowland Environment, functional traits, General Environmental Science, tropical forests, Global and Planetary Change, GE, Ecology, PERVASIVE ALTERATION, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, Biodiversity, [SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics, Classification, climate change, NEOTROPICAL FOREST, Biodiversity Conservation, GROWTH, TREE COMMUNITIES, Seasons, environment/Ecosystems, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, compositional shifts, Tree, Functional traits, Brazil, GE Environmental Sciences, 570, VEGETATION DYNAMICS, Climate Change, Temporal trends, bioclimatic niches, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, DROUGHT SENSITIVITY, 333, [SDV.BV.BOT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics, bioclimatic niches; climate change; compositional shifts; functional traits; temporal trends; tropical forests, Amazonia, Niche, [SDV.BID.SPT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, Tropical Forest, Environmental Chemistry, Forest, Compositional shifts, Temporal Variation, Ecosystem, 580, Tropical Climate, Science & Technology, Bioclimatic niches, Research, Bioclimatology, Brasil, Water, DAS, Carbon Dioxide, Primary Research Articles, Floristics, Climatic change, [SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, functional, Legacy, Earth and Environmental Sciences, [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, Season, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Environmental Sciences
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