Author Correction: Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (5515), 10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3)

The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189...

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Autores: Esquivel Muelbert, Adriane, Lawrence Phillips, Oliver, Brienen, Roel J W, Fauset, Sophie, Sullivan, MJ, Chao, Kuo Jung, Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, Emanuel, Higuchi, Niro, Duistermaat, J Houwing, Neill, David Alan, Peñuela Mora, María Cristina, Prieto, Adriana, Réjou Méchain, Maxime, Talbot, Joey, Terborgh, John, Thomas, Raquel S, Vos, Vincent Antoine
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Regional Amazónica
Repositorio:Repositorio Universidad Regional Amazónica
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec:RD_IKIAM/394
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3
http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/394
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tree
mortality risk
Amazon forests
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Sumario:The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots. While tree mortality rates vary greatly Amazon-wide, on average trees are as likely to die standing as they are broken or uprooted-modes of death with different ecological consequences. Species-level growth rate is the single most important predictor of tree death in Amazonia, with faster-growing species being at higher risk. Within species, however, the slowest-growing trees are at greatest risk while the effect of tree size varies across the basin. In the driest Amazonian region species-level bioclimatic distributional patterns also predict the risk of death, suggesting that these forests are experiencing climatic conditions beyond their adaptative limits. These results provide not only a holistic pan-Amazonian picture of tree death but large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth-survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality.

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