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

Creators

  • 1. University of Edinburgh
  • 2. University of Liverpool
  • 3. Florida International University
  • 4. National Institute of Amazonian Research
  • 5. Federal Rural University of Amazonia
  • 6. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • 7. Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
  • 8. Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Amapá *
  • 9. Universidad de Las Américas
  • 10. University of Leeds
  • 11. University of Montpellier
  • 12. Amcel Amapá Florestal e Celulose S.A*
  • 13. American Society of Naturalist
  • 14. Fundacion Universitaria Inpahu
  • 15. Instituto Sinchi
  • 16. Field Museum of Natural History
  • 17. State University of Campinas
  • 18. National Institute for Space Research
  • 19. National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
  • 20. University of Stirling
  • 21. Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
  • 22. Federal University of Rondônia
  • 23. University of Florida
  • 24. Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP)*
  • 25. Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal*
  • 26. University of Exeter
  • 27. Agteca-Amazonica*
  • 28. Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso
  • 29. Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 30. Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
  • 31. Vale Technological Institute
  • 32. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
  • 33. University of Montpellier 1
  • 34. Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
  • 35. Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia*
  • 36. James Cook University
  • 37. Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fiocruz*
  • 38. Federal University of Para
  • 39. Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá
  • 40. UNELLEZ-Guanare*
  • 41. Universidad de Los Andes, Chile
  • 42. University of Birmingham
  • 43. Endangered Species Coalition
  • 44. University of East Anglia
  • 45. Wake Forest University
  • 46. University of the Andes
  • 47. National Park Service
  • 48. Ciências Ambientais*
  • 49. University of Gothenburg
  • 50. Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica*
  • 51. University of Brasília
  • 52. Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program*
  • 53. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
  • 54. Centro Universitário do Pará
  • 55. Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Amazonia*
  • 56. Universidad Estatal Amazónica
  • 57. Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM
  • 58. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
  • 59. Ministério Público do Estado do Amazonas*
  • 60. Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management*
  • 61. University of Miami
  • 62. University of Cumbria
  • 63. Broward County Parks and Recreation*
  • 64. Servicios de Biodiversidad EIRL*
  • 65. Lancaster University
  • 66. University of Oxford
  • 67. Universidade Federal do Acre
  • 68. Federal Rural University of Pernambuco
  • 69. Embrapa Amazônia Oriental*
  • 70. University of California System
  • 71. Embrapa Amapá*
  • 72. Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)*
  • 73. Direccíon de Evaluación Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre*
  • 74. Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián*
  • 75. Universidad Central
  • 76. National Forests Office
  • 77. California State Polytechnic University
  • 78. Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios*
  • 79. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
  • 80. Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development*
  • 81. New York Botanical Garden
  • 82. Royal Botanic Gardens
  • 83. Universitario UMSA*
  • 84. Universidad Nacional de Jaén
  • 85. French National Centre for Scientific Research
  • 86. The University of Texas at Austin
  • 87. Fundación Puerto Rastrojo*
  • 88. Universidad San Francisco de Quito-USFQ*
  • 89. Naturalis Biodiversity Center
  • 90. Fundación Estación de Biología*
  • 91. Tulane University
  • 92. Amazon Conservation Team*
  • 93. Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • 94. National University of Colombia
  • 95. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
  • 96. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • 97. Wageningen University & Research
  • 98. McMaster University
  • 99. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana
  • 100. State University of Norte Fluminense
  • 101. University of Sao Paulo
  • 102. Federal University of Amazonas
  • 103. University of Michigan–Flint
  • 104. University of Nottingham
  • 105. Agricultural Services, Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security*
  • 106. Aarhus University
  • 107. University of San Simón
  • 108. Tropenbos International
  • 109. University of Kent
  • 110. Universidad Técnica del Norte
  • 111. Federal University of Western Pará
  • 112. University of Missouri

Description

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.

Notes

Funding provided by: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
ROR ID: https://ror.org/05r0vyz12
Award Number: FPU18/04945

Methods

Genus-level data on Amazon trees functional traits and demographic characteristics (see methods in the manuscript).

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10.5061/dryad.0gb5mkmb1 (DOI)