Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

Iris Hordijk; Lalasia Bialic-Murphy; Thomas Lauber; Devin Routh; Lourens Poorter; Malin C. Rivers; Hans ter Steege; Jingjing Liang; Peter B. Reich; Sergio de-Miguel; Gert‐Jan Nabuurs; Javier G. P. Gamarra; Han Y. H. Chen; Mo Zhou; Susan K. Wiser; Hans Pretzsch; Alain Paquette; Nicolas Picard; Bruno Hérault; Jean‐Francois Bastin; Giorgio Alberti; Meinrad Abegg; Yves C. Adou Yao; Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano; Braulio V. Alvarado; Esteban Alvarez-Davila; Patricia Alvarez-Loayza; Luciana F. Alves; Christian Ammer; Clara Antón-Fernández; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Luzmila Arroyo; Valerio Avitabile; Gerardo A. Aymard Corredor; Timothy Baker; Olaf Banki; Jorcely Barroso; Meredith L. Bastian; Luca Birigazzi; Philippe Birnbaum; Robert Bitariho; Pascal Boeckx; Frans Bongers; Olivier Bouriaud; Pedro H. S. Brancalion; Susanne Brandl; Roel Brienen; Eben N. Broadbent; Helge Bruelheide; Filippo Bussotti; Roberto Cazzolla Gatti; Ricardo G. Cesar; Goran Cesljar; Robin Chazdon; Chelsea Chisholm; Emil Cienciala; Connie J. Clark; David B. Clar; Gabriel Colletta; David Coomes; Fernando Cornejo Valverde; Jose J. Corral-Rivas; Philip Crim; Jonathan Cumming; Selvadurai Dayanandan; André L. de Gasper; Mathieu Decuyper; Géraldine Derroire; Ben DeVries; Ilija Djordjevic; Amaral Iêda; Aurélie Dourdain; Jiri Dolezal; Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang; Brian Enquist; Teresa Eyre; Adandé Belarmain Fandohan; Tom M. Fayle; Leandro V. Ferreira; Ted R. Feldpausch; Leena Finér; Markus Fischer; Christine Fletcher; Lorenzo Frizzera; Damiano Gianelle; Henry B. Glick; David Harris; Andrew Hector; Andreas Hemp; Geerten Hengeveld; John Herbohn; Annika Hillers; Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado; Cang Hui; Hyunkook Cho; Thomas Ibanez; Ilbin Jung; Nobuo Imai; Andrzej M. Jagodzinski; Bogdan Jaroszewicz; Vivian Johannsen; Carlos A. Joly; Tommaso Jucker; Viktor Karminov; Kuswata Kartawinata; Elizabeth Kearsley; David Kenfack; Deborah Kennard; Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas; Gunnar Keppel; Mohammed Latif Khan; Timothy Killeen; Hyun Seok Kim; Kanehiro Kitayama; Michael Köhl; Henn Korjus; Florian Kraxner; Diana Laarmann; Mait Lang; Simon Lewis; Huicui Lu; Natalia Lukina; Brian Maitner; Yadvinder Malhi; Eric Marcon; Beatriz Schwantes Marimon; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior; Andrew Robert Marshall; Emanuel Martin; Olga Martynenko; Jorge A. Meave; Omar Melo-Cruz; Casimiro Mendoza; Cory Merow; Stanislaw Miscicki; Abel Monteagudo Mendoza; Vanessa Moreno; Sharif A. Mukul; Philip Mundhenk; Maria G. Nava-Miranda; David Neill; Victor Neldner; Radovan Nevenic; Michael Ngugi; Pascal A. Niklaus; Jacek Oleksyn; Petr Ontikov; Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi; Yude Pan; Alexander Parada-Gutierrez; Elena Parfenova; Minjee Park; Marc Parren; Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy; Pablo L. Peri; Sebastian Pfautsch; Oliver L. Phillips; Maria Teresa Piedade; Daniel Piotto; Nigel C. A. Pitman; Irina Polo; Axel Dalberg Poulsen; John R. Poulsen; Freddy Ramirez Arevalo; Zorayda Restrepo-Correa; Mirco Rodeghiero; Samir Rolim; Anand Roopsind; Francesco Rovero; Ervan Rutishauser; Purabi Saikia; Christian Salas-Eljatib; Peter Schall; Dmitry Schepaschenko; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen; Bernhard Schmid; Jochen Schöngart; Eric B. Searle; Vladimír Seben; Josep M. Serra-Diaz; Douglas Sheil; Anatoly Shvidenko; Javier Silva-Espejo; Marcos Silveira; James Singh; Plinio Sist; Ferry Slik; Bonaventure Sonké; Alexandre F. Souza; Krzysztof Stereńczak; Jens‐Christian Svenning; Miroslav Svoboda; Ben Swanepoel; Natalia Targhetta; Nadja Tchebakova; Raquel Thomas; Elena Tikhonova; Peter Umunay; Vladimir Usoltsev; Renato Valencia; Fernando Valladares; Fons van der Plas; Tran Van Do; Michael E. Van Nuland; Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez; Hans Verbeeck; Helder Viana; Alexander C. Vibrans; Simone Vieira; Klaus von Gadow; Hua‐Feng Wang; James Watson; Gijsbert D. A. Werner; Florian Wittmann; Verginia Wortel; Roderick Zagt; Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki; Chunyu Zhang; Xiuhai Zhao; Zhi‐Xin Zhu; Irie Casimir Zo-Bi; Daniel S. Maynard; Thomas W. Crowther

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Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

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Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

Iris Hordijk, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Thomas Lauber, Devin Routh, Lourens Poorter, Malin C. Rivers, Hans ter Steege, Jingjing Liang, Peter B. Reich, Sergio de-Miguel, …

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.33(10), pp.1-21

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13889

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Abstract

community

dominance

environmental predictors

forests

macroecology

rarity

species abundance

species population threats

Aim Ecological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the following research questions: (1) What are the patterns of dominance and rarity in tree communities? (2) Which ecological and anthropogenic factors predict these patterns? And (3) what is the extinction risk of locally dominant and rare tree species? Location Global. Time period 1990–2017. Major taxa studied Trees. Methods We used 1.2 million forest plots and quantified local tree dominance as the relative plot basal area of the single most dominant species and local rarity as the percentage of species that contribute together to the least 10% of plot basal area. We mapped global community dominance and rarity using machine learning models and evaluated the ecological and anthropogenic predictors with linear models. Extinction risk, for example threatened status, of geographically widespread dominant and rare species was evaluated. Results Community dominance and rarity show contrasting latitudinal trends, with boreal forests having high levels of dominance and tropical forests having high levels of rarity. Increasing annual precipitation reduces community dominance, probably because precipitation is related to an increase in tree density and richness. Additionally, stand age is positively related to community dominance, due to stem diameter increase of the most dominant species. Surprisingly, we find that locally dominant and rare species, which are geographically widespread in our data, have an equally high rate of elevated extinction due to declining populations through large-scale land degradation. Main conclusions By linking patterns and predictors of community dominance and rarity to extinction risk, our results suggest that also widespread species should be considered in large-scale management and conservation practices.

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Title: Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats
Authors: Iris Hordijk - ETH Zurich
Lalasia Bialic-Murphy - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Thomas Lauber - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Devin Routh - University of Zurich
Lourens Poorter - Wageningen University & Research
Malin C. Rivers - Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Hans ter Steege - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Jingjing Liang - Purdue University West Lafayette
Peter B. Reich - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Sergio de-Miguel - Agrotecnio - Centre for Food and Agriculture Research
Gert‐Jan Nabuurs - Wageningen University & Research
Javier G. P. Gamarra - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Han Y. H. Chen - Lakehead University
Mo Zhou - Purdue University West Lafayette
Susan K. Wiser - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Hans Pretzsch - Technical University of Munich
Alain Paquette - Université du Québec à Montréal
Nicolas Picard - Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane
Bruno Hérault - Forests and Societies
Jean‐Francois Bastin - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Giorgio Alberti - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Meinrad Abegg - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Yves C. Adou Yao - Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano - University of Florida
Braulio V. Alvarado - Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Esteban Alvarez-Davila - Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Patricia Alvarez-Loayza - Field Museum of Natural History
Luciana F. Alves - University of California, Los Angeles
Christian Ammer - University of Göttingen
Clara Antón-Fernández - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Luzmila Arroyo - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Valerio Avitabile - Joint Research Centre
Gerardo A. Aymard Corredor - Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora
Timothy Baker - University of Leeds
Olaf Banki - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Jorcely Barroso - Universidade Federal do Acre
Meredith L. Bastian - National Academy of Sciences
Luca Birigazzi - United Nations University
Philippe Birnbaum - Université de Montpellier
Robert Bitariho - Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Pascal Boeckx - Ghent University
Frans Bongers - Wageningen University & Research
Olivier Bouriaud - Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava
Pedro H. S. Brancalion - Forest Science and Research Institute
Susanne Brandl - Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture
Roel Brienen - University of Leeds
Eben N. Broadbent - University of Florida
Helge Bruelheide - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Filippo Bussotti - University of Florence
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti - National Research Tomsk State University
Ricardo G. Cesar - Forest Science and Research Institute
Goran Cesljar - Institute of Forestry
Robin Chazdon - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Chelsea Chisholm - ETH Zurich
Emil Cienciala - Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research
Connie J. Clark - Duke University
David B. Clar - University of Missouri–St. Louis
Gabriel Colletta - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
David Coomes - Conservation Leadership Programme
Fernando Cornejo Valverde - Amazon National University of Madre de Dios
Jose J. Corral-Rivas - Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
Philip Crim - College of Saint Rose
Jonathan Cumming - West Virginia University
Selvadurai Dayanandan - Concordia University
André L. de Gasper - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Mathieu Decuyper - Wageningen University & Research
Géraldine Derroire - University of French Guiana
Ben DeVries - University of Maryland, College Park
Ilija Djordjevic - Institute of Forestry
Amaral Iêda - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Aurélie Dourdain - University of French Guiana
Jiri Dolezal - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang - Omar Bongo University
Brian Enquist - University of Arizona
Teresa Eyre - Queensland Herbarium
Adandé Belarmain Fandohan - Université d'Agriculture de Kétou
Tom M. Fayle - Queen Mary University of London
Leandro V. Ferreira - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Ted R. Feldpausch - University of Exeter
Leena Finér - Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava
Markus Fischer - University of Bern
Christine Fletcher - Forest Research Institute Malaysia
Lorenzo Frizzera - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Damiano Gianelle - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Henry B. Glick - Yale University
David Harris - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Andrew Hector - University of Oxford
Andreas Hemp - University of Bayreuth
Geerten Hengeveld - Wageningen University & Research
John Herbohn - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Annika Hillers - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado - Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
Cang Hui - Stellenbosch University
Hyunkook Cho - Korea Forest Service
Thomas Ibanez - Université de Montpellier
Ilbin Jung - Korea Forest Service
Nobuo Imai - Tokyo University of Agriculture
Andrzej M. Jagodzinski - Institute of Dendrology
Bogdan Jaroszewicz - Białowieża National Park
Vivian Johannsen - University of Copenhagen
Carlos A. Joly - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Tommaso Jucker - University of Bristol
Viktor Karminov - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Kuswata Kartawinata - Field Museum of Natural History
Elizabeth Kearsley - Ghent University
David Kenfack - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Deborah Kennard - Colorado Mesa University
Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas - University of Copenhagen
Gunnar Keppel - University of South Australia
Mohammed Latif Khan - Dr. Hari Singh Gour University
Timothy Killeen - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Hyun Seok Kim - Seoul National University
Kanehiro Kitayama - Kyoto University
Michael Köhl - Institute for World Forestry University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Henn Korjus - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Florian Kraxner - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Diana Laarmann - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Mait Lang - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Simon Lewis - University of Leeds
Huicui Lu - Qingdao Agricultural University
Natalia Lukina - Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russian)
Brian Maitner - University of Arizona
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Eric Marcon - AgroParisTech
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Ben Hur Marimon-Junior - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
Andrew Robert Marshall - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Emanuel Martin - College of African Wildlife Management
Olga Martynenko - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Jorge A. Meave - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Omar Melo-Cruz - University of Tolima
Casimiro Mendoza - Universidad Indígena Quechua Boliviana Casimiro Huanca
Cory Merow - University of Connecticut
Stanislaw Miscicki - Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
Vanessa Moreno - University of Sao Paulo
Sharif A. Mukul - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Philip Mundhenk - University of Hamburg
Maria G. Nava-Miranda - Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
David Neill - Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Victor Neldner - Queensland Herbarium
Radovan Nevenic - Institute of Forestry
Michael Ngugi - Queensland Herbarium
Pascal A. Niklaus - University of Zurich
Jacek Oleksyn - Tokyo University of Agriculture
Petr Ontikov - Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi - Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Yude Pan - US Forest Service
Alexander Parada-Gutierrez - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Elena Parfenova - Sukachev Institute of Forest
Minjee Park - Purdue University West Lafayette
Marc Parren - Wageningen University & Research
Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy - Pondicherry University
Pablo L. Peri - National University of Austral Patagonia
Sebastian Pfautsch - Western Sydney University
Oliver L. Phillips - University of Leeds
Maria Teresa Piedade - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Daniel Piotto - Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
Nigel C. A. Pitman - Field Museum of Natural History
Irina Polo - Jardín Botánico de Medellín (Medellin, Colombia)
Axel Dalberg Poulsen - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
John R. Poulsen - Duke University
Freddy Ramirez Arevalo - Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana
Zorayda Restrepo-Correa - Fundación Con Vida
Mirco Rodeghiero - Centro Agricoltura Ambiente
Samir Rolim - Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
Anand Roopsind - Boise State University
Francesco Rovero - University of Florence
Ervan Rutishauser - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Purabi Saikia - Central University of Jharkhand
Christian Salas-Eljatib - Universidad de La Frontera
Peter Schall - University of Göttingen
Dmitry Schepaschenko - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen - University of Freiburg
Bernhard Schmid - Université du Québec à Montréal
Jochen Schöngart - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Eric B. Searle - Université du Québec à Montréal
Vladimír Seben - National Forest Centre
Josep M. Serra-Diaz - Aarhus University
Douglas Sheil - Wageningen University & Research
Anatoly Shvidenko - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Javier Silva-Espejo - University of La Serena
Marcos Silveira - Universidade Federal do Acre
James Singh - Guyana Forestry Commission
Plinio Sist - Forests and Societies
Ferry Slik - Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Bonaventure Sonké - Université de Yaoundé I
Alexandre F. Souza - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Krzysztof Stereńczak - Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa
Jens‐Christian Svenning - Aarhus University
Miroslav Svoboda - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Ben Swanepoel - Wildlife Conservation Society Laos
Natalia Targhetta - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Nadja Tchebakova - Sukachev Institute of Forest
Raquel Thomas - Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Elena Tikhonova - University of Oxford
Peter Umunay - Yale University
Vladimir Usoltsev - Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Renato Valencia - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Fernando Valladares - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Fons van der Plas - Wageningen University & Research
Tran Van Do - Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences
Michael E. Van Nuland - Stanford University
Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez - Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Hans Verbeeck - Ghent University
Helder Viana - University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Alexander C. Vibrans - Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute
Simone Vieira - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Klaus von Gadow - Stellenbosch University
Hua‐Feng Wang - Hainan University
James Watson - West Virginia University
Gijsbert D. A. Werner - University of Oxford
Florian Wittmann - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Verginia Wortel - Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS) Paramaribo Suriname
Roderick Zagt - Tropenbos International
Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki - Polish State Forests (Warsaw, Poland)
Chunyu Zhang - Beijing Forestry University
Xiuhai Zhao - Beijing Forestry University
Zhi‐Xin Zhu - Hainan University
Irie Casimir Zo-Bi - Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Daniel S. Maynard - ETH Zurich
Thomas W. Crowther - ETH Zurich
Publication details: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.33(10), pp.1-21
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Date published: 2024
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13889
ISSN: 1466-8238; 1466-822X
Copyright note: © 2024 The Author(s). Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Data Availability: Tree community dominance values are available in the ETH research collection: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/682380
Organisation Unit: Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991048859502621
Output Type: Journal article

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