Artigo Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

The pace of life for forest trees

2024; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 386; Issue: 6717 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.adk9616

ISSN

1095-9203

Autores

Lalasia Bialic‐Murphy, Robert M. McElderry, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Johan van den Hoogen, Pieter A. Zuidema, Oliver L. Phillips, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Patricia Álvarez-Loayza, Esteban Álvarez‐Dávila, Luciana F. Alves, Vinícius Andrade Maia, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Lidiany Carolina Arantes da Silva, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, E.J.M.M. Arets, Julen Astigarraga, Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro, Timothy R. Baker, Olaf Bánki, Jorcely Barroso, Lilian Blanc, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Kauane Maiara Bordin, Roel Brienen, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, José Luís Camargo, Felipe Carvalho Araújo, Carolina V. Castilho, Wendeson Castro, Víctor Chama Moscoso, James A. Comiskey, Flávia R. C. Costa, Sandra Cristina Müller, Everton Cristo de Almeida, Antônio C. L. da Costa, Vitor de Andrade Kamimura, Fernanda de Oliveira, Jhon del Águila Pasquel, Géraldine Derroire, Kyle G. Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Louis Duchesne, Thaíse Emilio, Camila Laís Farrapo, Sophie Fauset, Federick C. Draper, Ted R. Feldpausch, Rafael Flora Ramos, Valéria Forni Martins, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Miguel Gama Reis, Ângelo Gilberto Manzatto, Bruno Hérault, Rafael Herrera, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Robert W. Howe, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Kátia Janaína Zanini, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Timothy J. Killeen, Joice Klipel, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes, Wilmar López Oviedo, William E. Magnusson, Rubens Manoel dos Santos, José Luís Marcelo Peña, Karla Maria Pedra de Abreu, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Karina Melgaço, Omar Aurelio Melo Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Paulo S. Morandi, Fernanda Moreira Gianasi, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, David Neill, Walter A. Palacios, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Guido Pardo, R. Toby Pennington, María Cristina Peñuela Mora, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Lourens Poorter, Adriana Prieto Cruz, Hirma Ramírez‐Angulo, Simone Matias Reis, Zorayda Restrepo, Carlos Reynel, Agustín Rudas, Flavio Antônio Maës dos Santos, Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin, Juliana Schietti, Gustavo Schwartz, Julio Serrano, André Maciel da Silva, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Mathias W. Tobler, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Peter J. van de Meer, Geertje van der Heijden, Rodolfo Vásquez, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent Antoine Vos, Amy Wolf, Christopher W. Woodall, Verginia Wortel, Joeri A. Zwerts, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Thomas W. Crowther,

Tópico(s)

Forest Management and Policy

Resumo

Tree growth and longevity trade-offs fundamentally shape the terrestrial carbon balance. Yet, we lack a unified understanding of how such trade-offs vary across the world’s forests. By mapping life history traits for a wide range of species across the Americas, we reveal considerable variation in life expectancies from 10 centimeters in diameter (ranging from 1.3 to 3195 years) and show that the pace of life for trees can be accurately classified into four demographic functional types. We found emergent patterns in the strength of trade-offs between growth and longevity across a temperature gradient. Furthermore, we show that the diversity of life history traits varies predictably across forest biomes, giving rise to a positive relationship between trait diversity and productivity. Our pan-latitudinal assessment provides new insights into the demographic mechanisms that govern the carbon turnover rate across forest biomes.

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