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Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world

Authors :
Piponiot, Camille
Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina
Davies, Stuart J.
Allen, David
Bourg, N.A.
Burslem, David F. R. P
Cárdenas López, Dairon
Chang‐Yang, Chia‐Hao
Chuyong, George B.
Cordell, Susan
Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramai
Duque, Alvaro
Ediriweera, Sisira
Ewango, Corneille
Ezedin, Zacky
Filip, Jonah
Giardina, Christian P.
Howe, Robert
Hsieh, Chang‐Fu
Hubbell, Stephen P.
Inman‐Narahari, Faith M.
Itoh, Akira
Janík, David
Kenfack, David
Král, Kamil
Lutz, James A.
Makana, Jean-Rémy
McMahon, Sean M.
McShea, William
Mi, Xiangcheng
Mohamad, Mohizah Bt.
Novotny, Vojtech
O'Brien, Michael J.
Ostertag, Rebecca
Parker, Geoffrey
Perez, Rolando
Ren, Haibao
Reynolds, Glen
Md Sabri, Mohamad Danial
Sack, Lawren
Shringi, Ankur
Su, Sheng-Hsin
Sukumar, Raman
Sun, I-Fang
Suresh, Hebbalalu S.
Thomas, Duncan
Thompson, Jill
Uriarte, Maria
Vandermeer, John
Wang, Yunquan
Ware, Ian M.
Weiblen, George D.
Whitfeld, Timothy J.S.
Wolf, Amy
Yao, Tze Leong
Yu, Mingjian
Yuan, Zuoqiang
Zimmerman, Jess K.
Zuleta, Daniel
Muller-Landau, Hélène C.
Piponiot, Camille
Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina
Davies, Stuart J.
Allen, David
Bourg, N.A.
Burslem, David F. R. P
Cárdenas López, Dairon
Chang‐Yang, Chia‐Hao
Chuyong, George B.
Cordell, Susan
Dattaraja, Handanakere Shivaramai
Duque, Alvaro
Ediriweera, Sisira
Ewango, Corneille
Ezedin, Zacky
Filip, Jonah
Giardina, Christian P.
Howe, Robert
Hsieh, Chang‐Fu
Hubbell, Stephen P.
Inman‐Narahari, Faith M.
Itoh, Akira
Janík, David
Kenfack, David
Král, Kamil
Lutz, James A.
Makana, Jean-Rémy
McMahon, Sean M.
McShea, William
Mi, Xiangcheng
Mohamad, Mohizah Bt.
Novotny, Vojtech
O'Brien, Michael J.
Ostertag, Rebecca
Parker, Geoffrey
Perez, Rolando
Ren, Haibao
Reynolds, Glen
Md Sabri, Mohamad Danial
Sack, Lawren
Shringi, Ankur
Su, Sheng-Hsin
Sukumar, Raman
Sun, I-Fang
Suresh, Hebbalalu S.
Thomas, Duncan
Thompson, Jill
Uriarte, Maria
Vandermeer, John
Wang, Yunquan
Ware, Ian M.
Weiblen, George D.
Whitfeld, Timothy J.S.
Wolf, Amy
Yao, Tze Leong
Yu, Mingjian
Yuan, Zuoqiang
Zimmerman, Jess K.
Zuleta, Daniel
Muller-Landau, Hélène C.
Source :
New Phytologist
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

Tree size shapes forest carbon dynamics and determines how trees interact with their environment, including a changing climate. Here, we conduct the first global analysis of among-site differences in how aboveground biomass stocks and fluxes are distributed with tree size. We analyzed repeat tree censuses from 25 large-scale (4–52 ha) forest plots spanning a broad climatic range over five continents to characterize how aboveground biomass, woody productivity, and woody mortality vary with tree diameter. We examined how the median, dispersion, and skewness of these size-related distributions vary with mean annual temperature and precipitation. In warmer forests, aboveground biomass, woody productivity, and woody mortality were more broadly distributed with respect to tree size. In warmer and wetter forests, aboveground biomass and woody productivity were more right skewed, with a long tail towards large trees. Small trees (1–10 cm diameter) contributed more to productivity and mortality than to biomass, highlighting the importance of including these trees in analyses of forest dynamics. Our findings provide an improved characterization of climate-driven forest differences in the size structure of aboveground biomass and dynamics of that biomass, as well as refined benchmarks for capturing climate influences in vegetation demographic models.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Journal :
New Phytologist
Notes :
text, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1387575987
Document Type :
Electronic Resource