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

Sanchez-Martinez, Pablo1; Dexter, Kyle1; Draper, Freddie2; Baraloto, Christopher3; Iêda, Amaral4; de Souza Coelho, Luiz4; de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia4; de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes4; Salomão, Rafael5; Wittmann, Florian6; Castilho, Carolina7; Carim, Marcelo8; Guevara Andino, Juan Ernesto9; Phillips, Oliver10; Magnusson, Bill4; Sabatier, Daniel11; Cardenas Revilla, Juan4; Molino, Jean-François11; Irume, Mariana4; Pires Martins, Maria4; da Silva Guimarães, José Renan12; Ramos, José4; Banki, Olaf13; Fernandez Piedade, Maria Teresa14; Cárdenas, Dairon15; Pitman, Nigel16; Oreste Demarchi, Layon4; Schöngart, Jochen4; Luize, Bruno Garcia17; Moraes de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia18; Núñez Vargas, Percy19; Silva, Thiago20; Venticinque, Eduardo21; Gilberto Manzatto, Angelo22; Farias Costa Reis, Neidiane22; Terborgh, John23; Regina Casula, Katia22; Honorio Coronado, Eurídice24; Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel19; Carlos Montero, Juan25; Costa, Flavia4; Feldpausch, Ted26; Quaresma, Adriano6; Castaño, Nicolas15; Zartman, Charles4; Killeen, Timothy27; Marimon, Beatriz28; Marimon Junior, Ben Hur28; Vasquez, Rodolfo29; Mostacedo, Bonifacio30; Leandro de Assis, Rafael31; Amaral, Dário32; Engel, Julien33; Castellanos, Hernan34; Madeiros, Marcelo35; Simon, Marcelo35; Andrade, Ana4; Camargo, Jose4; Laurance, Bill36; Laurance, Susan36; Rincón, Lorena4; Schietti, Juliana4; Sousa, Thaiane4; de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle37; Aparecida Lopes, Maria38; Lima Magalhães, José Leonardo38; Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo4; Lima de Queiroz, Helder39; Aymard, Gerardo40; Brienen, Roel10; Stevenson, Pablo41; Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro30; Cintra, Bruno42; Baker, Tim10; Feitosa, Yuri4; Mogollón, Hugo43; Peres, Carlos44; Silman, Miles45; Ferreira, Leandro32; Lozada, José46; Comiskey, Jim47; de Toledo, José Julio48; Damasco, Gabriel49; Dávila, Nállarett17; García, Roosevelt50; Lopes, Aline51; Vicentini, Alberto4; Cornejo Valverde, Fernando52; Alonso, Alfonso53; Arroyo, Luzmila30; Dallmeier, Francisco53; Freitas, Vitor54; Jimenez, Eliana M.55; Neill, David56; Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina57; Costa Noronha, Janaína58; Aguiar, Daniel59; Rodrigues Barbosa, Flávia58; Bredin, Yennie60; de Sá Carpanedo, Rainiellen58; Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda4; Coelho de Souza, Fernanda4; Feeley, Kenneth61; Gribel, Rogerio4; Haugaasen, Torbjørn60; Hawes, Joseph62; Petratti Pansonato, Marcelo4; Pipoly, John63; Ríos Paredes, Marcos64; de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos58; Barlow, Jos65; Berenguer, Erika66; da Silva, Izaias67; Julia Ferreira, Maria68; Ferreira, Joice69; Fine, Paul70; Carneiro Guedes, Marcelino71; Levis, Carolina72; Licona, Juan Carlos25; Villa, Boris73; Vos, Vincent74; Cerón, Carlos75; Machado Durgante, Flávia4; Fonty, Émile76; Henkel, Terry77; Householder, Ethan6; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau78; Silveira, Marcos67; Stropp, Juliana79; Thomas, Raquel80; Daly, Doug81; Milliken, William82; Pardo Molina, Guido74; Pennington, Toby26; Vieira, Ima32; Weiss Albuquerque, Bianca4; Campelo, Wegliane48; Fuentes, Alfredo83; Klitgaard, Bente82; Marcelo Pena, José Luis84; Tello, Sebastián29; Vriesendorp, Corine16; Chave, Jerome85; Di Fiore, Anthony86; Hilário, Renato Richard48; de Oliveira Pereira, Luciana26; Phillips, Juan Fernando87; Rivas, Gonzalo88; van Andel, Tinde89; von Hildebrand, Patricio90; Balee, William91; Marques Barbosa, Edelcilio4; de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos4; Dávila Doza, Hilda Paulette64; Hoffman, Bruce92; Braga Junqueira, André93; Malhi, Yadvinder66; de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula4; Mozombite Pinto, Linder Felipe64; Prieto, Adriana94; Rudas, Agustín94; Ruschel, Ademir69; Silva, Natalino5; Vela, César19; Zent, Stanford95; Zent, Egleé95; Cano, Angela41; Carrero, Yrma41; Correa, Diego41; Costa, Janaina71; Flores, Bernardo96; Galbraith, David10; Holmgren, Milena97; Kalamandeen, Michelle98; Lobo, Guilherme17; Montenegro, Luis Torres99; Trindade Nascimento, Marcelo100; Adalardo de Oliveira, Alexandre101; Marina Pombo, Maihyra4; Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma41; Rocha, Maira4; Vizoni Scudeller, Veridiana102; Umaña, María Natalia103; van der Heijden, Geertje104; Vilanova Torre, Emilio46; Baider, Cláudia105; Balslev, Henrik106; Cárdenas, Sasha46; Casas, Luisa46; Farfan, William45; Ferreira, Cid4; Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo53; Mendoza, Casimiro107; Mesones, Italo70; Parada, Germaine Alexander30; Torres-Lezama, Armando41; Urrego, Ligia Estela94; Villarroel, Daniel30; Zagt, Roderick108; Alexiades, Miguel109; Almeida de Oliveira, Edmar28; Fortier, Reily61; Garcia, Karina45; Hernandez, Lionel34; Palacios, Walter110; Pansini, Susamar22; Pauletto, Daniela111; Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy99; Felipe Sampaio, Adeilza22; Valderrama, Elvis112; Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis29; van der Sande, Masha97; Poorter, Lourens97; ter Steege, Hans89

Published Oct 17, 2024 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0gb5mkmb1

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Abstract

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.