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2. Inzicht in het beleid en de kaders voor koolstofboekhouding die de potentiële rol bepalen die biobased producten kunnen spelen om de streefdoelen voor klimaatverandering te halen. LNV-BO-43-128-001

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Garcia-Chavez, Lesly, Vural-Gursel, Iris, O'Keeffe, Sinead, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Garcia-Chavez, Lesly, Vural-Gursel, Iris, O'Keeffe, Sinead, and Arets, Eric J.M.M.

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Klimaatverandering is een grote uitdaging geworden op internationaal, Europees, nationaal en regionaal niveau. De gevolgen van klimaatverandering moeten worden beperkt door het voorkomen en verminderen van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen (BKG) in de atmosfeer. Er zijn verschillende beleids- en boekhoudkundige kaders ontwikkeld om dit te bewerkstelligen. Deze kaders stellen specifieke doelstellingen voor reductie van emissies van broeikasgassen of verhoogde vastlegging van CO2 vast en bieden een gestructureerde aanpak om dit probleem op te lossen. Dit rapport heeft tot doel om beleidsmedewerkers van het Nederlandse ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit (LNV) te informeren over hoe een verhoging van het aanbod aan biomassa uit bosbouw en landbouw voor de productie van chemische stoffen en materialen binnen deze kaders worden meegenomen en meegewogen en kunnen worden ingezet voor het beperken van klimaatverandering een verhoging van het aanbod aan biomassa uit bosbouw en landbouw omvatten voor de productie van chemische stoffen en materialen die kunnen bijdragen aan vermindering van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen. Dit desktoponderzoek volgt een 'systeemperspectiefbenadering' om de rol die biobased materialen1 kunnen spelen bij het verminderen van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen te bestuderen. Deze benadering biedt inzicht in de verbanden tussen biobased producten, nationale broeikasgasinventarissen en wereldwijde afspraken. Begrip van deze verbanden en kennis over welke boekhoudmethoden voor broeikasgasemissies en -verwijderingen worden toegepast is noodzakelijk voor het identificeren van mogelijke nadelen en voor het ontwikkelen van toekomstige beleidsrichtlijnen. Na deze review concluderen we dat het belangrijk is om bekend te zijn met en de waarde te erkennen in de huidige bestaande boekhoudmethoden. De bestaande kaders missen echter nog belangrijke kenmerken die robuustere boekhoudmethoden voor koolstofvastlegging en -opslag in biobased materialen mogel

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2023

3. Understanding the policies and carbon accounting frameworks which are defining the potential role of biobased products to meet climate change targets

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Garcia-Chavez, Lesly, Vural-Gursel, Iris, O'Keeffe, Sinead, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Garcia-Chavez, Lesly, Vural-Gursel, Iris, O'Keeffe, Sinead, and Arets, Eric J.M.M.

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Climate change has become an important challenge at International, European, National and Regional level. Mitigation of climate change by preventing and reducing the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere is needed to make the impacts of climate change less severe. To ensure this, different mitigation frameworks have been created. These frameworks set specific GHG reduction goals and provide a more structured approach to solve this problem. This report aims to provide information to the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) on and how some climate change mitigation frameworks are including the increase forestry and agricultural biomass supply to produce chemicals and materials that can contribute to the reduction of GHG emission. This desktop research follows a ‘systems perspective approach’ to study the role of biobased materials’ 1 in the reduction of GHG emission. This approach allows the understanding of interactions between biobased products, national inventories and global agreements. Understanding these links and having knowledge on which GHG gases accounting methods are being applied is necessary for the identification of possible drawbacks and for the development of future policy guidelines. After this review, we conclude that it is important to be familiar with and recognize the value in current existing accounting methodologies. However, existing frameworks are still lacking important features which could enable more robust account methodologies for carbon sequestration and storage in biobased materials. At this moment in time, the European Commission is working on proposals like the ‘Carbon Farming framework’ and ‘carbon removals certification framework’ (December 2022) and introducing a ‘carbon storage products pool’, these proposals could play and important role on establishing clear accounting rules that connect the biomass production to biobased materials and its contribution to support National Policies towards

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2023

4. Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

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Sullivan, Martin J.P., Lewis, Simon L., Affum-Baffoe, Kofi, Castilho, Carolina, Costa, Flávia, Sanchez, Aida Cuni, Ewango, Corneille E.N., Hubau, Wannes, Marimon, Beatriz, Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel, Qie, Lan, Sonké, Bonaventure, Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez, Baker, Timothy R., Brienen, Roel J.W., Feldpausch, Ted R., Galbraith, David, Gloor, Manuel, Malhi, Yadvinder, Aiba, Shin-Ichiro, Alexiades, Miguel N., Almeida, Everton C., de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida, Dávila, Esteban Álvarez, Loayza, Patricia Alvarez, Andrade, Ana, Vieira, Simone Aparecida, Aragão, Luiz E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, Luzmila, Ashton, Peter, Aymard C., Gerardo, Baccaro, Fabrício B., Banin, Lindsay F., Baraloto, Christopher, Camargo, Plínio Barbosa, Barlow, Jos, Barroso, Jorcely, Bastin, Jean-François, Batterman, Sarah A., Beeckman, Hans, Begne, Serge K., Bennett, Amy C., Berenguer, Erika, Berry, Nicholas, Blanc, Lilian, Boeckx, Pascal, Bogaert, Jan, Bonal, Damien, Bongers, Frans, Bradford, Matt, Brearley, Francis Q., Brncic, Terry, Brown, Foster, Burban, Benoit, Camargo, José Luís, Castro, Wendeson, Céron, Carlos, Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto, Moscoso, Victor Chama, Chave, Jerôme, Chezeaux, Eric, Clark, Connie J., de Souza, Fernanda Coelho, Collins, Murray, Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, Medina, Massiel Corrales, da Costa, Lola, Dančák, Martin, Dargie, Greta C., Davies, Stuart, Cardozo, Nallaret Davila, de Haulleville, Thales, de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, del Aguila Pasquel, Jhon, Derroire, Géraldine, Di Fiore, Anthony, Doucet, Jean-Louis, Dourdain, Aurélie, Droissart, Vincent, Duque, Luisa Fernanda, Ekoungoulou, Romeo, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry, Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane, Fauset, Sophie, Ferreira, Joice, Llampazo, Gerardo Flores, Foli, Ernest, Ford, Andrew, Gilpin, Martin, Hall, Jefferson S., Hamer, Keith C., Hamilton, Alan C., Harris, David J., Hart, Terese B., Hédl, Radim, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Hladik, Annette, Coronado, Eurídice Honorio, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Huasco, Walter Huaraca, Jeffery, Kathryn J., Jimenez-Rojas, Eliana, Kalamandeen, Michelle, Djuikouo, Marie Noël Kamdem, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi, Kho, Lip Khoon, Killeen, Timothy, Kitayama, Kanehiro, Klitgaard, Bente, Koch, Alexander, Labrière, Nicolas, Laurance, William, Laurance, Susan, Leal, Miguel E., Levesley, Aurora, Lima, Adriano J.N., Lisingo, Janvier, Lopes, Aline P., Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela, Lovejoy, Tom, Lovett, Jon C., Lowe, Richard, Magnusson, William E., Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba, Manzatto, Ângelo Gilberto, Marimon, Ben Hur, Marshall, Andrew R., Marthews, Toby, de Almeida Reis, Simone Matias, Maycock, Colin, Melgaço, Karina, Mendoza, Casimiro, Metali, Faizah, Mihindou, Vianet, Milliken, William, Mitchard, Edward T.A., Morandi, Paulo S., Mossman, Hannah L., Nagy, Laszlo, Nascimento, Henrique, Neill, David, Nilus, Reuben, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Palacios, Walter, Camacho, Nadir Pallqui, Peacock, Julie, Pendry, Colin, Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina, Pickavance, Georgia C., Pipoly, John, Pitman, Nigel, Playfair, Maureen, Poorter, Lourens, Poulsen, John R., Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Preziosi, Richard, Prieto, Adriana, Primack, Richard B., Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma, Reitsma, Jan, Réjou-Méchain, Maxime, Correa, Zorayda Restrepo, de Sousa, Thaiane Rodrigues, Bayona, Lily Rodriguez, Roopsind, Anand, Rudas, Agustín, Rutishauser, Ervan, Abu Salim, Kamariah, Salomão, Rafael P., Schietti, Juliana, Sheil, Douglas, Silva, Richarlly C., Espejo, Javier Silva, Valeria, Camila Silva, Silveira, Marcos, Simo-Droissart, Murielle, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Singh, James, Soto Shareva, Yahn Carlos, Stahl, Clement, Stropp, Juliana, Sukri, Rahayu, Sunderland, Terry, Svátek, Martin, Swaine, Michael D., Swamy, Varun, Taedoumg, Hermann, Talbot, Joey, Taplin, James, Taylor, David, ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Thomas, Raquel, Thomas, Sean C., Torres-Lezama, Armando, Umunay, Peter, Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela, van der Heijden, Geertje, van der Hout, Peter, van der Meer, Peter, van Nieuwstadt, Mark, Verbeeck, Hans, Vernimmen, Ronald, Vicentini, Alberto, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Torre, Emilio Vilanova, Vleminckx, Jason, Vos, Vincent, Wang, Ophelia, White, Lee J.T., Willcock, Simon, Woods, John T., Wortel, Verginia, Young, Kenneth, Zagt, Roderick, Zemagho, Lise, Zuidema, Pieter A., Zwerts, Joeri A., Phillips, Oliver L., Sullivan, Martin J.P., Lewis, Simon L., Affum-Baffoe, Kofi, Castilho, Carolina, Costa, Flávia, Sanchez, Aida Cuni, Ewango, Corneille E.N., Hubau, Wannes, Marimon, Beatriz, Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel, Qie, Lan, Sonké, Bonaventure, Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez, Baker, Timothy R., Brienen, Roel J.W., Feldpausch, Ted R., Galbraith, David, Gloor, Manuel, Malhi, Yadvinder, Aiba, Shin-Ichiro, Alexiades, Miguel N., Almeida, Everton C., de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida, Dávila, Esteban Álvarez, Loayza, Patricia Alvarez, Andrade, Ana, Vieira, Simone Aparecida, Aragão, Luiz E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, Luzmila, Ashton, Peter, Aymard C., Gerardo, Baccaro, Fabrício B., Banin, Lindsay F., Baraloto, Christopher, Camargo, Plínio Barbosa, Barlow, Jos, Barroso, Jorcely, Bastin, Jean-François, Batterman, Sarah A., Beeckman, Hans, Begne, Serge K., Bennett, Amy C., Berenguer, Erika, Berry, Nicholas, Blanc, Lilian, Boeckx, Pascal, Bogaert, Jan, Bonal, Damien, Bongers, Frans, Bradford, Matt, Brearley, Francis Q., Brncic, Terry, Brown, Foster, Burban, Benoit, Camargo, José Luís, Castro, Wendeson, Céron, Carlos, Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto, Moscoso, Victor Chama, Chave, Jerôme, Chezeaux, Eric, Clark, Connie J., de Souza, Fernanda Coelho, Collins, Murray, Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, Medina, Massiel Corrales, da Costa, Lola, Dančák, Martin, Dargie, Greta C., Davies, Stuart, Cardozo, Nallaret Davila, de Haulleville, Thales, de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, del Aguila Pasquel, Jhon, Derroire, Géraldine, Di Fiore, Anthony, Doucet, Jean-Louis, Dourdain, Aurélie, Droissart, Vincent, Duque, Luisa Fernanda, Ekoungoulou, Romeo, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry, Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane, Fauset, Sophie, Ferreira, Joice, Llampazo, Gerardo Flores, Foli, Ernest, Ford, Andrew, Gilpin, Martin, Hall, Jefferson S., Hamer, Keith C., Hamilton, Alan C., Harris, David J., Hart, Terese B., Hédl, Radim, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Hladik, Annette, Coronado, Eurídice Honorio, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Huasco, Walter Huaraca, Jeffery, Kathryn J., Jimenez-Rojas, Eliana, Kalamandeen, Michelle, Djuikouo, Marie Noël Kamdem, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi, Kho, Lip Khoon, Killeen, Timothy, Kitayama, Kanehiro, Klitgaard, Bente, Koch, Alexander, Labrière, Nicolas, Laurance, William, Laurance, Susan, Leal, Miguel E., Levesley, Aurora, Lima, Adriano J.N., Lisingo, Janvier, Lopes, Aline P., Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela, Lovejoy, Tom, Lovett, Jon C., Lowe, Richard, Magnusson, William E., Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba, Manzatto, Ângelo Gilberto, Marimon, Ben Hur, Marshall, Andrew R., Marthews, Toby, de Almeida Reis, Simone Matias, Maycock, Colin, Melgaço, Karina, Mendoza, Casimiro, Metali, Faizah, Mihindou, Vianet, Milliken, William, Mitchard, Edward T.A., Morandi, Paulo S., Mossman, Hannah L., Nagy, Laszlo, Nascimento, Henrique, Neill, David, Nilus, Reuben, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Palacios, Walter, Camacho, Nadir Pallqui, Peacock, Julie, Pendry, Colin, Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina, Pickavance, Georgia C., Pipoly, John, Pitman, Nigel, Playfair, Maureen, Poorter, Lourens, Poulsen, John R., Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Preziosi, Richard, Prieto, Adriana, Primack, Richard B., Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma, Reitsma, Jan, Réjou-Méchain, Maxime, Correa, Zorayda Restrepo, de Sousa, Thaiane Rodrigues, Bayona, Lily Rodriguez, Roopsind, Anand, Rudas, Agustín, Rutishauser, Ervan, Abu Salim, Kamariah, Salomão, Rafael P., Schietti, Juliana, Sheil, Douglas, Silva, Richarlly C., Espejo, Javier Silva, Valeria, Camila Silva, Silveira, Marcos, Simo-Droissart, Murielle, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Singh, James, Soto Shareva, Yahn Carlos, Stahl, Clement, Stropp, Juliana, Sukri, Rahayu, Sunderland, Terry, Svátek, Martin, Swaine, Michael D., Swamy, Varun, Taedoumg, Hermann, Talbot, Joey, Taplin, James, Taylor, David, ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Thomas, Raquel, Thomas, Sean C., Torres-Lezama, Armando, Umunay, Peter, Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela, van der Heijden, Geertje, van der Hout, Peter, van der Meer, Peter, van Nieuwstadt, Mark, Verbeeck, Hans, Vernimmen, Ronald, Vicentini, Alberto, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Torre, Emilio Vilanova, Vleminckx, Jason, Vos, Vincent, Wang, Ophelia, White, Lee J.T., Willcock, Simon, Woods, John T., Wortel, Verginia, Young, Kenneth, Zagt, Roderick, Zemagho, Lise, Zuidema, Pieter A., Zwerts, Joeri A., and Phillips, Oliver L.

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The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predicting global climate change. Although short-term drying and warming are known to affect forests, it is unknown if such effects translate into long-term responses. Here, we analyze 590 permanent plots measured across the tropics to derive the equilibrium climate controls on forest carbon. Maximum temperature is the most important predictor of aboveground biomass (−9.1 megagrams of carbon per hectare per degree Celsius), primarily by reducing woody productivity, and has a greater impact per °C in the hottest forests (>32.2°C). Our results nevertheless reveal greater thermal resilience than observations of short-term variation imply. To realize the long-term climate adaptation potential of tropical forests requires both protecting them and stabilizing Earth’s climate.

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2020

5. Data from Sullivan et al. (2020) Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw7578.

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Sullivan, Martin J.P., Lewis, Simon L., Affum-Baffoe, Kofi, Castilho, Carolina, Costa, Flávia, Sanchez, Aida Cuni, Ewango, Corneille E.N., Hubau, Wannes, Marimon, Beatriz, Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel, Qie, Lan, Sonké, Bonaventure, Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez, Baker, Timothy R., Brienen, Roel J.W., Feldpausch, Ted R., Galbraith, David, Gloor, Manuel, Malhi, Yadvinder, Aiba, Shin Ichiro, Alexiades, Miguel N., Almeida, Everton C., de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida, Dávila, Esteban Álvarez, Loayza, Patricia Alvarez, Andrade, Ana, Vieira, Simone Aparecida, Aragão, Luiz E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, Luzmila, Ashton, Peter, Aymard C, Gerardo, Baccaro, Fabrício B., Banin, Lindsay F., Baraloto, Christopher, Camargo, Plínio Barbosa, Barlow, Jos, Barroso, Jorcely, Bastin, Jean François, Batterman, Sarah A., Beeckman, Hans, Begne, Serge K., Bennett, Amy C., Berenguer, Erika, Berry, Nicholas, Blanc, Lilian, Boeckx, Pascal, Bogaert, Jan, Bonal, Damien, Bongers, Frans, Bradford, Matt, Brearley, Francis Q., Brncic, Terry, Brown, Foster, Burban, Benoit, Camargo, José Luís, Castro, Wendeson, Céron, Carlos, Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto, Moscoso, Victor Chama, Chave, Jerôme, Chezeaux, Eric, Clark, Connie J., de Souza, Fernanda Coelho, Collins, Murray, Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, Medina, Massiel Corrales, da Costa, Lola, Dančák, Martin, Dargie, Greta C., Davies, Stuart, Cardozo, Nallaret Davila, de Haulleville, Thales, de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, Del Aguila Pasquel, Jhon, Derroire, Géraldine, Di Fiore, Anthony, Doucet, Jean Louis, Dourdain, Aurélie, Droissant, Vincent, Duque, Luisa Fernanda, Ekoungoulou, Romeo, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry, Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane, Fauset, Sophie, Ferreira, Joice, Llampazo, Gerardo Flores, Foli, Ernest, Ford, Andrew, Gilpin, Martin, Hall, Jefferson S., Hamer, Keith C., Hamilton, Alan C., Harris, David J., Hart, Terese B., Hédl, Radim, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Hladik, Annette, Coronado, Eurídice Honorio, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Huasco, Walter Huaraca, Jeffery, Kathryn J., Jimenez-Rojas, Eliana, Kalamandeen, Michelle, Djuikouo, Marie Noël Kamdem, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi, Kho, Lip Khoon, Killeen, Timothy, Kitayama, Kanehiro, Klitgaard, Bente, Koch, Alexander, Labrière, Nicolas, Laurance, William, Laurance, Susan, Leal, Miguel E., Levesley, Aurora, Lima, Adriano J.N., Lisingo, Janvier, Lopes, Aline P., Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela, Lovejoy, Tom, Lovett, Jon C., Lowe, Richard, Magnusson, William E., Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba, Manzatto, Ângelo Gilberto, Marimon, Ben Hur, Marshall, Andrew R., Marthews, Toby, de Almeida Reis, Simone Matias, Maycock, Colin, Melgaço, Karina, Mendoza, Casimiro, Metali, Faizah, Mihindou, Vianet, Milliken, William, Mitchard, Edward T.A., Morandi, Paulo S., Mossman, Hannah L., Nagy, Laszlo, Nascimento, Henrique, Neill, David, Nilus, Reuben, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Palacios, Walter, Camacho, Nadir Pallqui, Peacock, Julie, Pendry, Colin, Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina, Pickavance, Georgia C., Pipoly, John, Pitman, Nigel, Playfair, Maureen, Poorter, Lourens, Poulsen, John R., Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Preziosi, Richard, Prieto, Adriana, Primack, Richard B., Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma, Reitsma, Jan, Réjou-Méchain, Maxime, Correa, Zorayda Restrepo, de Sousa, Thaiane Rodrigues, Bayona, Lily Rodriguez, Roopsind, Anand, Rudas, Agustín, Rutishauser, Ervan, Abu Salim, Kamariah, Salomão, Rafael P., Schietti, Juliana, Sheil, Douglas, Silva, Richarlly C., Espejo, Javier Silva, Valeria, Camila Silva, Silveira, Marcos, Simo-Droissart, Murielle, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Singh, James, Soto Shareva, Yahn Carlos, Stahl, Clement, Stropp, Juliana, Sukri, Rahayu, Sunderland, Terry, Svátek, Martin, Swaine, Michael D., Swamy, Varun, Taedoumg, Hermann, Talbot, Joey, Taplin, James, Taylor, David, Ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Thomas, Raquel, Thomas, Sean C., Torres-Lezama, Armando, Umunay, Peter, Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela, van der Heijden, Geertje, van der Hout, Peter, van der Meer, Peter, van Nieuwstadt, Mark, Verbeeck, Hans, Vernimmen, Ronald, Vicentini, Alberto, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Torre, Emilio Vilanova, Vleminckx, Jason, Vos, Vincent, Wang, Ophelia, White, Lee J.T., Willcock, Simon, Woods, John T., Wortel, Verginia, Young, Kenneth, Zagt, Roderick, Zemagho, Lise, Zuidema, Pieter A., Zwerts, Joeri A., Phillips, Oliver L., Sullivan, Martin J.P., Lewis, Simon L., Affum-Baffoe, Kofi, Castilho, Carolina, Costa, Flávia, Sanchez, Aida Cuni, Ewango, Corneille E.N., Hubau, Wannes, Marimon, Beatriz, Monteagudo-Mendoza, Abel, Qie, Lan, Sonké, Bonaventure, Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez, Baker, Timothy R., Brienen, Roel J.W., Feldpausch, Ted R., Galbraith, David, Gloor, Manuel, Malhi, Yadvinder, Aiba, Shin Ichiro, Alexiades, Miguel N., Almeida, Everton C., de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida, Dávila, Esteban Álvarez, Loayza, Patricia Alvarez, Andrade, Ana, Vieira, Simone Aparecida, Aragão, Luiz E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, Luzmila, Ashton, Peter, Aymard C, Gerardo, Baccaro, Fabrício B., Banin, Lindsay F., Baraloto, Christopher, Camargo, Plínio Barbosa, Barlow, Jos, Barroso, Jorcely, Bastin, Jean François, Batterman, Sarah A., Beeckman, Hans, Begne, Serge K., Bennett, Amy C., Berenguer, Erika, Berry, Nicholas, Blanc, Lilian, Boeckx, Pascal, Bogaert, Jan, Bonal, Damien, Bongers, Frans, Bradford, Matt, Brearley, Francis Q., Brncic, Terry, Brown, Foster, Burban, Benoit, Camargo, José Luís, Castro, Wendeson, Céron, Carlos, Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto, Moscoso, Victor Chama, Chave, Jerôme, Chezeaux, Eric, Clark, Connie J., de Souza, Fernanda Coelho, Collins, Murray, Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, Medina, Massiel Corrales, da Costa, Lola, Dančák, Martin, Dargie, Greta C., Davies, Stuart, Cardozo, Nallaret Davila, de Haulleville, Thales, de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, Del Aguila Pasquel, Jhon, Derroire, Géraldine, Di Fiore, Anthony, Doucet, Jean Louis, Dourdain, Aurélie, Droissant, Vincent, Duque, Luisa Fernanda, Ekoungoulou, Romeo, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry, Esquivel-Muelbert, Adriane, Fauset, Sophie, Ferreira, Joice, Llampazo, Gerardo Flores, Foli, Ernest, Ford, Andrew, Gilpin, Martin, Hall, Jefferson S., Hamer, Keith C., Hamilton, Alan C., Harris, David J., Hart, Terese B., Hédl, Radim, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Hladik, Annette, Coronado, Eurídice Honorio, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Huasco, Walter Huaraca, Jeffery, Kathryn J., Jimenez-Rojas, Eliana, Kalamandeen, Michelle, Djuikouo, Marie Noël Kamdem, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi, Kho, Lip Khoon, Killeen, Timothy, Kitayama, Kanehiro, Klitgaard, Bente, Koch, Alexander, Labrière, Nicolas, Laurance, William, Laurance, Susan, Leal, Miguel E., Levesley, Aurora, Lima, Adriano J.N., Lisingo, Janvier, Lopes, Aline P., Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela, Lovejoy, Tom, Lovett, Jon C., Lowe, Richard, Magnusson, William E., Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba, Manzatto, Ângelo Gilberto, Marimon, Ben Hur, Marshall, Andrew R., Marthews, Toby, de Almeida Reis, Simone Matias, Maycock, Colin, Melgaço, Karina, Mendoza, Casimiro, Metali, Faizah, Mihindou, Vianet, Milliken, William, Mitchard, Edward T.A., Morandi, Paulo S., Mossman, Hannah L., Nagy, Laszlo, Nascimento, Henrique, Neill, David, Nilus, Reuben, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Palacios, Walter, Camacho, Nadir Pallqui, Peacock, Julie, Pendry, Colin, Peñuela Mora, Maria Cristina, Pickavance, Georgia C., Pipoly, John, Pitman, Nigel, Playfair, Maureen, Poorter, Lourens, Poulsen, John R., Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Preziosi, Richard, Prieto, Adriana, Primack, Richard B., Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma, Reitsma, Jan, Réjou-Méchain, Maxime, Correa, Zorayda Restrepo, de Sousa, Thaiane Rodrigues, Bayona, Lily Rodriguez, Roopsind, Anand, Rudas, Agustín, Rutishauser, Ervan, Abu Salim, Kamariah, Salomão, Rafael P., Schietti, Juliana, Sheil, Douglas, Silva, Richarlly C., Espejo, Javier Silva, Valeria, Camila Silva, Silveira, Marcos, Simo-Droissart, Murielle, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Singh, James, Soto Shareva, Yahn Carlos, Stahl, Clement, Stropp, Juliana, Sukri, Rahayu, Sunderland, Terry, Svátek, Martin, Swaine, Michael D., Swamy, Varun, Taedoumg, Hermann, Talbot, Joey, Taplin, James, Taylor, David, Ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Thomas, Raquel, Thomas, Sean C., Torres-Lezama, Armando, Umunay, Peter, Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela, van der Heijden, Geertje, van der Hout, Peter, van der Meer, Peter, van Nieuwstadt, Mark, Verbeeck, Hans, Vernimmen, Ronald, Vicentini, Alberto, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Torre, Emilio Vilanova, Vleminckx, Jason, Vos, Vincent, Wang, Ophelia, White, Lee J.T., Willcock, Simon, Woods, John T., Wortel, Verginia, Young, Kenneth, Zagt, Roderick, Zemagho, Lise, Zuidema, Pieter A., Zwerts, Joeri A., and Phillips, Oliver L.

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The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predicting global climate change. Although short-term drying and warming are known to affect forests, it is unknown if such effects translate into long-term responses. Here, we analyze 590 permanent plots measured across the tropics to derive the equilibrium climate controls on forest carbon. Maximum temperature is the most important predictor of aboveground biomass (−9.1 megagrams of carbon per hectare per degree Celsius), primarily by reducing woody productivity, and has a greater rate of decline in the hottest forests (>32.2°C). Our results nevertheless reveal greater thermal resilience than observations of short-term variation imply. To realize the long-term climate adaptation potential of tropical forests requires both protecting them and stabilizing Earth’s climate., The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predicting global climate change. Although short-term drying and warming are known to affect forests, it is unknown if such effects translate into long-term responses. Here, we analyze 590 permanent plots measured across the tropics to derive the equilibrium climate controls on forest carbon. Maximum temperature is the most important predictor of aboveground biomass (−9.1 megagrams of carbon per hectare per degree Celsius), primarily by reducing woody productivity, and has a greater rate of decline in the hottest forests (>32.2°C). Our results nevertheless reveal greater thermal resilience than observations of short-term variation imply. To realize the long-term climate adaptation potential of tropical forests requires both protecting them and stabilizing Earth’s climate.

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2020

7. Understanding the implications of the EU-LULUCF regulation for the wood supply from EU forests to the EU 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences 0705 Forestry Sciences Georgii Alexandrov

Author

Nabuurs, Gert-Jan, Arets, Eric J.M.M., and Schelhaas, Mart-Jan

Subjects
Wood mobilisation, Forest management, EFISCEN, Sequestration, Vegetatie, Bos- en Landschapsecologie, Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology, PE&RC, Carbon sink, European forests
Abstract

Background: In June 2018, the European Parliament and Council of the European Union adopted a legislative regulation for incorporating greenhouse gas emissions and removals from Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (EU-LULUCF) under its 2030 Climate and Energy Framework. The LULUCF regulation aim to incentivise EU Member States to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and increase removals in the LULUCF sector. The regulation, however, does not set a target for increasing the LULUCF carbon sink, but rather includes a 'no net debit' target for LULUCF (Forests and Agricultural soils). For Managed Forest Land (MFL) an accounting framework with capped credits for additional mitigation against a set forest reference level (FRL) was agreed for 2021-2030. The FRL gives the projected future carbon sink in the two compliance periods 2021-2025 and 2026-2030 under "continuation of forest management practices as they were in the reference period 2000-2009". This FRL was disputed by some Member States as it was perceived to put a limit on their future wood harvesting from MFL. Here we simulated with the EFISCEN European forest model the "continuation of forest management practices" and determined the corresponding wood harvest for 26 EU countries under progressing age classes. Results: The simulations showed that under "continuation of forest management practices" the harvest (wood removals) in the 26 EU countries as a whole can increase from 420 million m3/year in 2000-2009 to 560 million m3/year in 2050 due to progressing age classes. This implies there is a possibility to increase absolute wood harvests without creating debits compared to the forest reference level. However, the manner in which 'continuation of forest management' developed with a progressing age class development over time, meant that in some countries the future harvesting exceeded 90% of the increment. Since this generally is considered to be unsustainable we additionally set a harvesting cut-off as max 90% of increment to be harvested for each individual country as a possible interpretation of sustainability criteria that are included in the regulation. Using this additional limit the projected harvest will only increase to 493 million m3/year. Conclusions: The worry from Member States (MS) that the FRL will prevent any additional harvesting seems unwarranted. Due to differences between Member States concerning the state of their forest resources, the FRL as a baseline for harvesting works out very differently for the different Member States. The FRL may have other unforeseen consequences which we discuss. Under all scenarios the living forest biomass sink shows a decline. This can be counteracted through incentivising measures under Climate Smart Forestry.

Published
2018

8. Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of neotropical forests

Author

Poorter, Lourens, van der Sande, Masha T., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Ascarrunz, Nataly, Enquist, Brian, Finegan, Bryan, Licona, Juan Carlos, Martínez-Ramos, Miguel, Mazzei, Lucas, Meave, Jorge A., Muñoz, Rodrigo, Nytch, Christopher J., de Oliveira, Alexandre A., Pérez-García, Eduardo A., Prado-Junior, Jamir, Rodríguez-Velázques, Jorge, Ruschel, Ademir Roberto, Salgado-Negret, Beatriz, Schiavini, Ivan, Swenson, Nathan G., Tenorio, Elkin A., Thompson, Jill, Toledo, Marisol, Uriarte, Maria, Hout, Peter van der, Zimmerman, Jess K., Peña-Claros, Marielos, Poorter, Lourens, van der Sande, Masha T., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Ascarrunz, Nataly, Enquist, Brian, Finegan, Bryan, Licona, Juan Carlos, Martínez-Ramos, Miguel, Mazzei, Lucas, Meave, Jorge A., Muñoz, Rodrigo, Nytch, Christopher J., de Oliveira, Alexandre A., Pérez-García, Eduardo A., Prado-Junior, Jamir, Rodríguez-Velázques, Jorge, Ruschel, Ademir Roberto, Salgado-Negret, Beatriz, Schiavini, Ivan, Swenson, Nathan G., Tenorio, Elkin A., Thompson, Jill, Toledo, Marisol, Uriarte, Maria, Hout, Peter van der, Zimmerman, Jess K., and Peña-Claros, Marielos

Abstract

Aim: Tropical forests account for a quarter of the global carbon storage and a third of the terrestrial productivity. Few studies have teased apart the relative importance of environmental factors and forest attributes for ecosystem functioning, especially for the tropics. This study aims to relate aboveground biomass (AGB) and biomass dynamics (i.e., net biomass productivity and its underlying demographic drivers: biomass recruitment, growth and mortality) to forest attributes (tree diversity, community-mean traits and stand basal area) and environmental conditions (water availability, soil fertility and disturbance). Location: Neotropics. Methods: We used data from 26 sites, 201 1-ha plots and >92,000 trees distributed across the Neotropics. We quantified for each site water availability and soil total exchangeable bases and for each plot three key community-weighted mean functional traits that are important for biomass stocks and productivity. We used structural equation models to test the hypothesis that all drivers have independent, positive effects on biomass stocks and dynamics. Results: Of the relationships analysed, vegetation attributes were more frequently associated significantly with biomass stocks and dynamics than environmental conditions (in 67 vs. 33% of the relationships). High climatic water availability increased biomass growth and stocks, light disturbance increased biomass growth, and soil bases had no effect. Rarefied tree species richness had consistent positive relationships with biomass stocks and dynamics, probably because of niche complementarity, but was not related to net biomass productivity. Community-mean traits were good predictors of biomass stocks and dynamics. Main conclusions: Water availability has a strong positive effect on biomass stocks and growth, and a future predicted increase in (atmospheric) drought might, therefore, potentially reduce carbon storage. Forest attributes, including species diversity and community-weighte

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2017

9. Biodiversity in species, traits, and structure determines carbon stocks and uptake in tropical forests

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van der Sande, Masha T., Poorter, Lourens, Kooistra, Lammert, Balvanera, Patricia, Thonicke, Kirsten, Thompson, Jill, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Garcia Alaniz, Nashieli, Jones, Laurence, Mora, Francisco, Mwampamba, Tuyeni H., Parr, Terence, Peña-Claros, Marielos, van der Sande, Masha T., Poorter, Lourens, Kooistra, Lammert, Balvanera, Patricia, Thonicke, Kirsten, Thompson, Jill, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Garcia Alaniz, Nashieli, Jones, Laurence, Mora, Francisco, Mwampamba, Tuyeni H., Parr, Terence, and Peña-Claros, Marielos

Abstract

Impacts of climate change require that society urgently develops ways to reduce amounts of carbon in the atmosphere. Tropical forests present an important opportunity, as they take up and store large amounts of carbon. It is often suggested that forests with high biodiversity have large stocks and high rates of carbon uptake. Evidence is, however, scattered across geographic areas and scales, and it remains unclear whether biodiversity is just a co-benefit or also a requirement for the maintenance of carbon stocks and uptake. Here, we perform a quantitative review of empirical studies that analyzed the relationships between plant biodiversity attributes and carbon stocks and carbon uptake in tropical forests. Our results show that biodiversity attributes related to species, traits or structure significantly affect carbon stocks or uptake in 64% of the evaluated relationships. Average vegetation attributes (community-mean traits and structural attributes) are more important for carbon stocks, whereas variability in vegetation attributes (i.e., taxonomic diversity) is important for both carbon stocks and uptake. Thus, different attributes of biodiversity have complementary effects on carbon stocks and uptake. These biodiversity effects tend to be more often significant in mature forests at broad spatial scales than in disturbed forests at local spatial scales. Biodiversity effects are also more often significant when confounding variables are not included in the analyses, highlighting the importance of performing a comprehensive analysis that adequately accounts for environmental drivers. In summary, biodiversity is not only a co-benefit, but also a requirement for short- and long-term maintenance of carbon stocks and enhancement of uptake. Climate change policies should therefore include the maintenance of multiple attributes of biodiversity as an essential requirement to achieve long-term climate change mitigation goals.

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2017

11. Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

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Johnson, Michelle O., Galbraith, David, Gloor, Manuel, De Deurwaerder, Hannes, Guimberteau, Matthieu, Rammig, Anja, Thonicke, Kirsten, Verbeeck, Hans, Von Randow, Celso, Monteagudo, Abel, Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Feldpausch, Ted R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Fauset, Sophie, Quesada, Carlos A., Christoffersen, Bradley, Ciais, Philippe, Sampaio, Gilvan, Kruijt, Bart, Meir, Patrick, Moorcroft, Paul, Zhang, Ke, Alvarez-Davila, Esteban, Alves De Oliveira, Atila, Amaral, Ieda, Andrade, Ana, Aragao, Luiz E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, Luzmila, Aymard, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jocely, Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene, Camargo, Jose, Chave, Jerome, Cogollo, Alvaro, Cornejo Valverde, Fernando, Lola Da Costa, Antonio C., Di Fiore, Anthony, Ferreira, Leandro, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio, Euridice N., Killeen, Tim J., Laurance, Susan G., Laurance, William F., Licona, Juan, Lovejoy, Thomas, Malhi, Yadvinder, Marimon, Bia, Marimon, Ben Hur, Matos, Darley C.L., Mendoza, Casimiro, Neill, David A., Pardo, Guido, Peña-Claros, Marielos, Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, Lourens, Prieto, Adriana, Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Roopsind, Anand, Rudas, Agustin, Salomao, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, Ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Thomas, Raquel, Toledo, Marisol, Torres-Lezama, Armando, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., Vasquez, Rodolfo, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia, Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Baker, Timothy R., Johnson, Michelle O., Galbraith, David, Gloor, Manuel, De Deurwaerder, Hannes, Guimberteau, Matthieu, Rammig, Anja, Thonicke, Kirsten, Verbeeck, Hans, Von Randow, Celso, Monteagudo, Abel, Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Feldpausch, Ted R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Fauset, Sophie, Quesada, Carlos A., Christoffersen, Bradley, Ciais, Philippe, Sampaio, Gilvan, Kruijt, Bart, Meir, Patrick, Moorcroft, Paul, Zhang, Ke, Alvarez-Davila, Esteban, Alves De Oliveira, Atila, Amaral, Ieda, Andrade, Ana, Aragao, Luiz E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, Luzmila, Aymard, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jocely, Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene, Camargo, Jose, Chave, Jerome, Cogollo, Alvaro, Cornejo Valverde, Fernando, Lola Da Costa, Antonio C., Di Fiore, Anthony, Ferreira, Leandro, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio, Euridice N., Killeen, Tim J., Laurance, Susan G., Laurance, William F., Licona, Juan, Lovejoy, Thomas, Malhi, Yadvinder, Marimon, Bia, Marimon, Ben Hur, Matos, Darley C.L., Mendoza, Casimiro, Neill, David A., Pardo, Guido, Peña-Claros, Marielos, Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, Lourens, Prieto, Adriana, Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Roopsind, Anand, Rudas, Agustin, Salomao, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, Ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Thomas, Raquel, Toledo, Marisol, Torres-Lezama, Armando, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., Vasquez, Rodolfo, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Cèlia, Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., and Baker, Timothy R.

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Understanding the processes that determine aboveground biomass (AGB) in Amazonian forests is important for predicting the sensitivity of these ecosystems to environmental change and for designing and evaluating dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs). AGB is determined by inputs from woody productivity (woody NPP) and the rate at which carbon is lost through tree mortality. Here, we test whether two direct metrics of tree mortality (the absolute rate of woody biomass loss and the rate of stem mortality) and/or woody NPP, control variation in AGB among 167 plots in intact forest across Amazonia. We then compare these relationships and the observed variation in AGB and woody NPP with the predictions of four DGVMs. The observations show that stem mortality rates, rather than absolute rates of woody biomass loss, are the most important predictor of AGB, which is consistent with the importance of stand size-structure for determining spatial variation in AGB. The relationship between stem mortality rates and AGB varies among different regions of Amazonia, indicating that variation in wood density and height/diameter relationships also influence AGB. In contrast to previous findings, we find that woody NPP is not correlated with stem mortality rates, and is weakly positively correlated with AGB. Across the four models, basin-wide average AGB is similar to the mean of the observations. However, the models consistently overestimate woody NPP, and poorly represent the spatial patterns of both AGB and woody NPP estimated using plot data. In marked contrast to the observations, DGVMs typically show strong positive relationships between woody NPP and AGB. Resolving these differences will require incorporating forest size structure, mechanistic models of stem mortality and variation in functional composition in DGVMs

Published
2016

12. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

Author

Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Alexiades, M., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Higuchi, N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., and Zagt, Roderick J.

Subjects
Forest ecology, Climate-change ecology, Population dynamics

13. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Zagt, Roderick J., Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., and Zagt, Roderick J.

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Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., Baker, Timothy R., Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., and Baker, Timothy R.

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Lineages tend to retain ecological characteristics of their ancestors through time. However, for some traits, selection during evolutionary history may have also played a role in determining trait values. To address the relative importance of these processes requires large-scale quantification of traits and evolutionary relationships among species. The Amazonian tree flora comprises a high diversity of angiosperm lineages and species with widely differing life-history characteristics, providing an excellent system to investigate the combined influences of evolutionary heritage and selection in determining trait variation. We used trait data related to the major axes of life-history variation among tropical trees (e.g. growth and mortality rates) from 577 inventory plots in closed-canopy forest, mapped onto a phylogenetic hypothesis spanning more than 300 genera including all major angiosperm clades to test for evolutionary constraints on traits. We found significant phylogenetic signal (PS) for all traits, consistent with evolutionarily related genera having more similar characteristics than expected by chance. Although there is also evidence for repeated evolution of pioneer and shade tolerant life-history strategies within independent lineages, the existence of significant PS allows clearer predictions of the links between evolutionary diversity, ecosystem function and the response of tropical forests to global change.

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15. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Zagt, Roderick J., Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., and Zagt, Roderick J.

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16. Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology

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Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., Baker, Timothy R., Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., and Baker, Timothy R.

Abstract

Lineages tend to retain ecological characteristics of their ancestors through time. However, for some traits, selection during evolutionary history may have also played a role in determining trait values. To address the relative importance of these processes requires large-scale quantification of traits and evolutionary relationships among species. The Amazonian tree flora comprises a high diversity of angiosperm lineages and species with widely differing life-history characteristics, providing an excellent system to investigate the combined influences of evolutionary heritage and selection in determining trait variation. We used trait data related to the major axes of life-history variation among tropical trees (e.g. growth and mortality rates) from 577 inventory plots in closed-canopy forest, mapped onto a phylogenetic hypothesis spanning more than 300 genera including all major angiosperm clades to test for evolutionary constraints on traits. We found significant phylogenetic signal (PS) for all traits, consistent with evolutionarily related genera having more similar characteristics than expected by chance. Although there is also evidence for repeated evolution of pioneer and shade tolerant life-history strategies within independent lineages, the existence of significant PS allows clearer predictions of the links between evolutionary diversity, ecosystem function and the response of tropical forests to global change.

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17. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Zagt, Roderick J., Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., and Zagt, Roderick J.

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18. Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology

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Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., Baker, Timothy R., Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., and Baker, Timothy R.

Abstract

Lineages tend to retain ecological characteristics of their ancestors through time. However, for some traits, selection during evolutionary history may have also played a role in determining trait values. To address the relative importance of these processes requires large-scale quantification of traits and evolutionary relationships among species. The Amazonian tree flora comprises a high diversity of angiosperm lineages and species with widely differing life-history characteristics, providing an excellent system to investigate the combined influences of evolutionary heritage and selection in determining trait variation. We used trait data related to the major axes of life-history variation among tropical trees (e.g. growth and mortality rates) from 577 inventory plots in closed-canopy forest, mapped onto a phylogenetic hypothesis spanning more than 300 genera including all major angiosperm clades to test for evolutionary constraints on traits. We found significant phylogenetic signal (PS) for all traits, consistent with evolutionarily related genera having more similar characteristics than expected by chance. Although there is also evidence for repeated evolution of pioneer and shade tolerant life-history strategies within independent lineages, the existence of significant PS allows clearer predictions of the links between evolutionary diversity, ecosystem function and the response of tropical forests to global change.

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19. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Zagt, Roderick J., Brienen, Roel J.W., Phillips, Oliver L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Gloor, E., Baker, Tim R., Lloyd, J., López-González, Gabriela, Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S.L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, Eric J.M.M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O.S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R.G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Castilho, Carolina V., Chama, V., Chao, K.J., Chave, J., Comiskey, James A., Cornejo Valverde, F., da Costa, L., de Oliveira, E.A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, Terry L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, David R., Grahame, E.S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, S., Licona, J., Magnussen, W.E., Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, C., Neill, D.A., Nogueira, E,M., Núñez, P., Pallqui Camacho, N.C., Parada, A., Pardo-Molina, G., Peacock, J., Peña-Claros, M., Pickavance, G.C., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Poorter, L., Prieto, A., Quesada, Carlos A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Restrepo, Z., Roopsind, A., Rudas, A., Salomão, Rafael P., Schwarz, M., Silva, N., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Talbot, J., ter Steege, H., Teran-Aguilar, J., Terborgh, J., Thomas-Caesar, R., Toledo, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Umetsu, R.K.., van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Hout, Peter, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., and Zagt, Roderick J.

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20. Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology

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Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., Baker, Timothy R., Coelho de Souza, Fernanda, Dexter, Kyle G., Phillips, Oliver L., Brienen, Roel J.W., Chave, Jerome, Galbraith, David R., Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pennington, R. Toby, Poorter, Lourens, Alexiades, Miguel, Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban, Andrade, Ana, Aragão, Luis E.O.C., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arets, Eric J.M.M., Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bonal, Damien, Boot, Rene G.A., Camargo, José L.C., Comiskey, James A., Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, de Camargo, Plínio B., Di Fiore, Anthony, Elias, Fernando, Erwin, Terry L., Feldpausch, Ted R., Ferreira, Leandro, Fyllas, Nikolaos M., Gloor, Emanuel, Herault, Bruno, Herrera, Rafael, Higuchi, Niro, Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N., Killeen, Timothy J., Laurance, William F., Laurance, Susan, Lloyd, Jon, Lovejoy, Thomas E., Malhi, Yadvinder, Maracahipes, Leandro, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben H., Mendoza, Casimiro, Morandi, Paulo, Neill, David A., Vargas, Percy Núñez, Oliveira, Edmar A., Lenza, Eddie, Palacios, Walter A., Peñuela-Mora, Maria C., Pipoly, John J., Pitman, Nigel C.A., Prieto, Adriana, Quesada, Carlos A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rudas, Agustin, Ruokolainen, Kalle, Salomão, Rafael P., Silveira, Marcos, Stropp, Juliana, ter Steege, Hans, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, van der Hout, Peter, van der Heijden, Geertje M.F., van der Meer, Peter J., Vasquez, Rodolfo V., Vieira, Simone A., Vilanova, Emilio, Vos, Vincent A., Wang, Ophelia, Young, Kenneth R., Zagt, Roderick J., and Baker, Timothy R.

Abstract

Lineages tend to retain ecological characteristics of their ancestors through time. However, for some traits, selection during evolutionary history may have also played a role in determining trait values. To address the relative importance of these processes requires large-scale quantification of traits and evolutionary relationships among species. The Amazonian tree flora comprises a high diversity of angiosperm lineages and species with widely differing life-history characteristics, providing an excellent system to investigate the combined influences of evolutionary heritage and selection in determining trait variation. We used trait data related to the major axes of life-history variation among tropical trees (e.g. growth and mortality rates) from 577 inventory plots in closed-canopy forest, mapped onto a phylogenetic hypothesis spanning more than 300 genera including all major angiosperm clades to test for evolutionary constraints on traits. We found significant phylogenetic signal (PS) for all traits, consistent with evolutionarily related genera having more similar characteristics than expected by chance. Although there is also evidence for repeated evolution of pioneer and shade tolerant life-history strategies within independent lineages, the existence of significant PS allows clearer predictions of the links between evolutionary diversity, ecosystem function and the response of tropical forests to global change.

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