Resolving whole-plant economics from leaf, stem and root traits of 1467 Amazonian tree species
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Jason Vleminckx
Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., FL, USA
Yale Inst. for Biospheric Studies, New Haven, CT, USA
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Search for more papers by this authorClaire Fortunel
AMAP (botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), Univ. de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., FL, USA
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Search for more papers by this authorC. E. Timothy Paine
Environmental and Rural Science, Univ. of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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Search for more papers by this authorJulien Engel
AMAP (botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), Univ. de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
International Center for Tropical Botany, Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL, USA
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Search for more papers by this authorPascal Petronelli
CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
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Search for more papers by this authorAurélie K. Dourdain
CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
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Search for more papers by this authorJuan Guevara
Field Mueum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS- Univ. de las Américas, Campus Queri, Quito Ecuador
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UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
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Search for more papers by this authorChristopher Baraloto
Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., FL, USA
INRAe, UMR Ecologie de Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, INRA, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (lead), Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Resources (lead), Software (supporting), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)
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Jason Vleminckx
Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., FL, USA
Yale Inst. for Biospheric Studies, New Haven, CT, USA
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Funding acquisition (supporting), Investigation (lead), Methodology (lead), Project administration (supporting), Resources (supporting), Software (lead), Supervision (supporting), Validation (equal), Visualization (lead), Writing - original draft (lead), Writing - review & editing (lead)
Search for more papers by this authorClaire Fortunel
AMAP (botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), Univ. de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (supporting), Investigation (equal), Methodology (supporting), Project administration (supporting), Resources (lead), Supervision (supporting), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorOscar Valverde-Barrantes
Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., FL, USA
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Search for more papers by this authorC. E. Timothy Paine
Environmental and Rural Science, Univ. of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Data curation (supporting), Funding acquisition (supporting), Investigation (supporting), Methodology (supporting), Project administration (supporting), Resources (equal), Validation (equal), Visualization (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting), Writing - review & editing (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorJulien Engel
AMAP (botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), Univ. de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
International Center for Tropical Botany, Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL, USA
Contribution: Data curation (lead), Funding acquisition (supporting), Investigation (supporting), Project administration (supporting), Resources (equal), Validation (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorPascal Petronelli
CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
Contribution: Data curation (equal), Resources (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorAurélie K. Dourdain
CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
Contribution: Data curation (equal), Investigation (supporting), Resources (supporting), Visualization (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorJuan Guevara
Field Mueum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS- Univ. de las Américas, Campus Queri, Quito Ecuador
Contribution: Data curation (supporting), Investigation (supporting), Resources (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorSolène Béroujon
UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
Contribution: Investigation (supporting), Resources (supporting), Writing - original draft (supporting), Writing - review & editing (supporting)
Search for more papers by this authorChristopher Baraloto
Dept of Biological Sciences, Florida International Univ., FL, USA
INRAe, UMR Ecologie de Forêts de Guyane, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, INRA, Univ. de Guyane, Univ. des Antilles, Kourou Cedex, France
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (supporting), Funding acquisition (lead), Investigation (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead), Resources (lead), Software (supporting), Supervision (lead), Validation (equal), Visualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
It remains unclear how evolutionary and ecological processes have shaped the wide variety of plant life strategies, especially in highly diverse ecosystems like tropical forests. Some evidence suggests that species have diversified across a gradient of ecological strategies, with different plant tissues converging to optimize resource use across environmental gradients. Alternative hypotheses propose that species have diversified following independent selection on different tissues, resulting in a decoupling of trait syndromes across organs. To shed light on the subject, we assembled an unprecedented dataset combining 19 leaf, stem and root traits for 1467 tropical tree species inventoried across 71 0.1-ha plots spanning broad environmental gradients in French Guiana. Nearly 50% of the overall functional heterogeneity was expressed along four orthogonal dimensions, after accounting for phylogenetic dependences among species. The first dimension related to fine root functioning, while the second and third dimensions depicted two decoupled leaf economics spectra, and the fourth dimension encompassed a wood economics spectrum. Traits involved in orthogonal functional strategies, five leaf traits in particular but also trunk bark thickness, were consistently associated with a same gradient of soil texture and nutrient availability. Root traits did not show any significant association with edaphic variation, possibly because of the prevailing influence of other factors (mycorrhizal symbiosis, phylogenetic constraints). Our study emphasises the existence of multiple functional dimensions that allow tropical tree species to optimize their performance in a given environment, bringing new insights into the debate around the presence of a whole plant economic spectrum in tropical forest tree communities. It also emphasizes the key role that soil heterogeneity plays in shaping tree species assembly. The extent to which different organs are decoupled and respond to environmental gradients may also help to improve our predictions of species distribution changes in responses to habitat modification and environmental changes.
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Data availability statement
The data supporting the results are available at Dryad Digital Repository: <http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c59zw3r76> (Vleminckx et al. 2021).
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