Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa

Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe the variability of strategies involving leaf, wood and demographic characteristics for tree ge...

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Autores: Sanchez-Martinez, Pablo, Dexter, Kyle G., Draper, Freddie C., Baraloto, Chris, Leão do Amaral, Iêda, de Souza Coelho, Luiz, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes, Salomão, Rafael P., Wittmann, Florian, Castilho, Carolina V., Veiga Carim, Marcelo de Jesús, Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Phillips, Oliver L., Magnusson, William E., Sabatier, Daniel, Cardenas Revilla, Juan David, Molino, Jean-François, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires, da Silva Guimarães, José Renan, Ramos, José Ferreira, Bánki, Olaf S., Fernandez Piedade, Maria Teresa, Cárdenas López, Dairon, Pitman, Nigel C. A., Demarchi, Layon O., Schöngart, Jochen, García Luize, Bruno, Moraes de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia, Núñez Vargas, Percy, Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire, Martins Venticinque, Eduardo, Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, Costa Reis, Neidiane Farias, Terborgh, John, Casula, Katia Regina, Honorio Coronado, Euridice N., Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Montero, Juan Carlos, Costa, Flávia R. C., Feldpausch, Ted R., Costa Quaresma, Adriano, Castaño Arboleda, Nicolás, Zartman, Charles Eugene, Killeen, Timothy J., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur, Vasquez, Rodolfo, Mostacedo, Bonifacio, Assis, Rafael L., Dantas do Amaral, Dário, Engel, Julien, Castellanos, Hernán, Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo, Fragomeni Simon, Marcelo, Andrade, Ana, Camargo, José Luís, Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan G. W., Maniguaje Rincón, Lorena, Schietti, Juliana, Sousa, Thaiane R., de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle, Lopes, Maria Aparecida, Lima Magalhães, José Leonardo, Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo, Lima de Queiroz, Helder, Aymard, Gerardo, Brienen, Roel, Stevenson, Pablo R., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Ladvocat Cintra, Bruno Barçante, Baker, Tim R., Oliveira Feitosa, Yuri, Mogollón, Hugo F., Peres, Carlos A., Silman, Miles R., Valle Ferreira, Leandro, Lozada, José Rafael, Comiskey, James A., de Toledo, José Julio, Damasco, Gabriel, Dávila, Nállarett, García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Lopes, Aline, Vicentini, Alberto, Cornejo Valverde, Fernando, Alonso, Alfonso, Arroyo, Luzmila, Dallmeier, Francisco, Gomes, Vitor H. F., Neill, David, Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina, Costa Noronha, Janaína, de Aguiar, Daniel P. P., Rodrigues Barbosa, Flávia, Bredin, Yennie K., de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen, Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda, Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Feeley, Kenneth J., Gribel, Rogerio, Haugaasen, Torbjørn, Hawes, Joseph E., Petratti Pansonato, Marcelo, Pipoly III, John J., Ríos Paredes, Marcos, de Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesús, Barlow, Jos, Berenguer, Erika, Brasil da Silva, Izaias, Ferreira, Maria Julia, Ferreira, Joice, Fine, Paul V. A., Carneiro Guedes, Marcelino, Levis, Carolina, Licona, Juan Carlos, Villa Zegarra, Boris Eduardo, Vos, Vincent Antoine, Cerón, Carlos, Machado Durgante, Flávia, Fonty, Émile, Henkel, Terry W., Householder, John Ethan, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, Thomas, Raquel, Daly, Doug, Milliken, William, Pardo Molina, Guido, Pennington, Toby, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Weiss Albuquerque, Bianca, Campelo, Wegliane, Fuentes, Alfredo, Klitgaard, Bente, Marcelo Pena, José Luis, Tello, J. Sebastián, Vriesendorp, Corine, Chave, Jerome, Di Fiore, Anthony, Richard Hilário, Renato, de Oliveira Pereira, Luciana, Phillips, Juan Fernando, Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo, van Andel, Tinde R., von Hildebrand, Patricio, Balee, William, Marques Barbosa, Edelcilio, Carlos de Matos Bonates, Luiz, Dávila Doza, Hilda Paulette, Zárate Gómez, Ricardo, Gonzales, Therany, Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, George, Hoffman, Bruce, Braga Junqueira, André, Malhi, Yadvinder, Paula de Andrade Miranda, Ires, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Prieto, Adriana, Rudas, Agustín, Ruschel, Ademir R., Silva, Natalino, Vela, César I. A., Zent, Stanford, Zent, Egleé L., Cano, Angela, Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina, Correa, Diego F., Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Janaina, Monteiro Flores, Bernardo, Galbraith, David, Holmgren, Milena, Kalamandeen, Michelle, Lobo, Guilherme, Torres Montenegro, Luis, Trindade Nascimento, Marcelo, Oliveira, Alexandre A., Pombo, Maihyra Marina, Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rocha, Maira, Vizoni Scudeller, Veridiana, Umaña, María Natalia, van der Heijden, Geertje, Vilanova Torre, Emilio, Baider, Cláudia, Balslev, Henrik, Cárdenas, Sasha, Casas, Luisa Fernanda, Farfán-Ríos, William, Ferreira, Cid, Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo, Mendoza, Casimiro, Mesones, Italo, Parada, Germaine Alexander, Torres-Lezama, Armando, Villarroel, Daniel, Zagt, Roderick, Alexiades, Miguel N., Almeida de Oliveira, Edmar, Fortier, Riley P., García-Cabrera, Karina, Hernández, Lionel, Palacios Cuenca, Walter, Pansini, Susamar, Pauletto, Daniela, Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy, Felipe Sampaio, Adeilza, Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H., Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis, van der Sande, Masha, Poorter, Lourens, ter Steege, Hans
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:digitalcsic_::ae2539111996de0aa6dfee6d23b1200c
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/430537
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ecophysiology
Functional traits
Life history
Macroecology
Phylogenetic conservatism
Tree physiology
Tropical ecology
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Sumario:Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe the variability of strategies involving leaf, wood and demographic characteristics for tree genera distributed across the Amazon Region, and quantify phylogenetic signal for the characteristics and their relationships. Leaf and wood traits are aligned with demographic variables along two main axes of variation. The first axis represents the coordination of leaf traits describing resource uptake and use, wood density, seed mass, and survival. The second axis represents the coordination between size and growth. Both axes show strong phylogenetic signal, suggesting a constrained evolution influenced by ancestral values, yet the second axis also has an additional, substantial portion of its variation that is driven by functional correlations unrelated to phylogeny, suggesting simultaneously higher evolutionary lability and coordination. Synthesis. Our results suggest that life history strategies of tropical trees are generally phylogenetically conserved, but that tree lineages may have some capability of responding to environmental changes by modulating their growth and size. Overall, we provide the largest-scale synopsis of functional characteristics of Amazonian trees, showing substantial nuance in the evolutionary patterns of individual characteristics and their relationships. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.