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Journal article
Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.33(8), pp.1-15
2024
Abstract
Aim
Successional changes in functional diversity provide insights into community assembly by indicating how species are filtered into local communities based on their traits. Here, we assess successional changes in taxonomic and functional richness, evenness and redundancy along gradients of climate, soil pH and forest cover.
Location
Neotropics.
Time period
Last 0–100 years.
Major taxa studied
Trees.
Methods
We used 22 forest chronosequence studies and 676 plots across the Neotropics to analyse successional changes in Hill's taxonomic and functional diversity of trees, and how these successional changes vary with continental-scale gradients in precipitation, soil pH and surrounding forest cover.
Results
Taxonomic and functional richness and functional redundancy increased, while taxonomic and functional evenness decreased over time. Functional richness and evenness changed strongly when not accounting for taxonomic richness, but changed more weakly after statistically accounting for taxonomic richness, indicating that changes in functional diversity are largely driven by taxonomic richness. Nevertheless, the successional increases in functional richness when correcting for taxonomic richness may indicate that environmental heterogeneity and limiting similarity increase during succession. The taxonomically-independent successional decreases in functional evenness may indicate that stronger filtering and competition select for dominant species with similar trait values, while many rare species and traits are added to the community. Such filtering and competition may also lead to increased functional redundancy. The changes in taxonomically-independent functional diversity varied with resource availability and were stronger in harsh, resource-poor environments, but weak in benign, productive environments. Hence, in resource-poor environments, environmental filtering and facilitation are important, whereas in productive environments, weaker abiotic filtering allows for high initial functional diversity and weak successional changes.
Main conclusion
We found that taxonomic and functional richness and functional redundancy increased and taxonomic and functional evenness decreased during succession, mainly caused by the increasing number of rare species and traits due to the arrival of new species and due to changing (a)biotic filters.
Details
- Title
- Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness
- Authors
- Masha T. van Der Sande - Wageningen University & ResearchLourens Poorter - Wageningen University & ResearchGeraldine Derroire - University of French GuianaMario Marcos do Espirito Santo - Universidade Estadual de Montes ClarosMadelon Lohbeck - Wageningen University & ResearchSandra C. Mueller - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulMichiel van Breugel - National University of SingaporeJuan Manuel Dupuy-Rada - Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C.Sandra M. Duran - Colorado State UniversityCatarina C. Jakovac - Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaHoracio Paz - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoDanae M. A. Rozendaal - Wageningen University & ResearchPedro Brancalion - University of Sao PauloDylan Craven - Universidad MayorFrancisco Mora Ardilla - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoJarcilene S. Almeida - Universidade Federal de PernambucoPatricia Balvanera - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoJustin Becknell - Colby CollegeBryan Finegan - Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza CatieRicardo Gomes Cesar - University of Sao PauloJose Luis Hernandez-Stefanoni - Colorado State UniversityDeborah Kennard - Colorado Mesa UniversitySusan G. Letcher - College of the AtlanticErika Marin-Spiotta - University of Wisconsin–MadisonRodrigo Munoz - Wageningen University & ResearchCasandra Reyes-Garcia - Colorado State UniversityLucia Sanaphre-Villanueva - Colorado State UniversityLuis P. Utrera - Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza CatieGeraldo Wilson Fernandes - Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisFrancisco S. Alvarez - Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza CatieJose Luis Andrade - Wageningen University & ResearchFelipe Arreola - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoVanessa Boukili - City of SomervilleGeorge A. L. Cabral - Universidade Federal de PernambucoJerome Chave - Université Toulouse III - Paul SabatierRobin Chazdon - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research CentreGabriel Colletta - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Maria das Dores Magalhaes Veloso - Universidade Estadual de Montes ClarosBen de Jong - El Colegio de la Frontera SurEdwin Lebrija-Trejos - University of HaifaVanessa de Souza Moreno - Forest Science and Research InstituteDaisy H. Dent - Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteSaara Dewalt - Clemson UniversityElisa Diaz Garcia - University of Sao PauloYule Roberta Ferreira Nunes - Universidade Estadual de Montes ClarosVanessa Granda - Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza CatieJefferson Hall - Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteRodney Lobo - University of AlbertaOmar Lopez - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in ZurichMiguel Martinez Ramos - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoJorge A. Meave - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoSusana Ochoa-Gaona - El Colegio de la Frontera SurEverardo V. S. B. Sampaio - Universidade Federal de PernambucoArturo Sanchez-Azofeifa - El Colegio de la Frontera SurHeitor Mancini Teixeira - Utrecht UniversityMarisol Toledo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous UniversityMaria Uriarte - Columbia UniversityS. Joseph Wright - Smithsonian Tropical Research InstituteKatia Zanini - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulFrans Bongers - Wageningen University & Research
- Publication details
- Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.33(8), pp.1-15
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1111/geb.13856
- ISSN
- 1466-8238; 1466-822X
- Copyright note
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2024 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Data Availability
- The data that support the findings of this study are available in the Supplementary Material of this article (Appendix S16).
- Grant note
- This research was primarily supported by funding from the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO-ALW.OP241 and NWO-Veni.192.027) and the European Research Council (Advanced Grant PANTROP 834775). For other funding sources, see Acknowledgements.
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991043597702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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