%0 Journal Article
%T Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests
%A Esquivel-Muelbert, A.
%A Phillips, O.L.
%A Brienen, R.J.W.
%A Fauset, S.
%A Sullivan, M.J.P.
%A Baker, T.R.
%A Chao, K.-J.
%A Feldpausch, T.R.
%A Gloor, E.
%A Higuchi, N.
%A Houwing-Duistermaat, J.
%A Lloyd, J.
%A Liu, H.
%A Malhi, Y.
%A Marimon, B.
%A Marimon Junior, B.H.
%A Monteagudo-Mendoza, A.
%A Poorter, L.
%A Silveira, M.
%A Torre, E.V.
%A Dávila, E.A.
%A del Aguila Pasquel, J.
%A Almeida, E.
%A Loayza, P.A.
%A Andrade, A.
%A Aragão, L.E.O.C.
%A Araujo-Murakami, A.
%A Arets, E.
%A Arroyo, L.
%A Aymard C, G.A.
%A Baisie, M.
%A Baraloto, C.
%A Camargo, P.B.
%A Barroso, J.
%A Blanc, L.
%A Bonal, D.
%A Bongers, F.
%A Boot, R.
%A Brown, F.
%A Burban, B.
%A Camargo, J.L.
%A Castro, W.
%A Moscoso, V.C.
%A Chave, J.
%A Comiskey, J.
%A Valverde, F.C.
%A da Costa, A.L.
%A Cardozo, N.D.
%A Di Fiore, A.
%A Dourdain, A.
%A Erwin, T.
%A Llampazo, G.F.
%A Vieira, I.C.G.
%A Herrera, R.
%A Honorio Coronado, E.
%A Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I.
%A Jimenez-Rojas, E.
%A Killeen, T.
%A Laurance, S.
%A Laurance, W.
%A Levesley, A.
%A Lewis, S.L.
%A Ladvocat, K.L.L.M.
%A Lopez-Gonzalez, G.
%A Lovejoy, T.
%A Meir, P.
%A Mendoza, C.
%A Morandi, P.
%A Neill, D.
%A Nogueira Lima, A.J.
%A Vargas, P.N.
%A de Oliveira, E.A.
%A Camacho, N.P.
%A Pardo, G.
%A Peacock, J.
%A Peña-Claros, M.
%A Peñuela-Mora, M.C.
%A Pickavance, G.
%A Pipoly, J.
%A Pitman, N.
%A Prieto, A.
%A Pugh, T.A.M.
%A Quesada, C.
%A Ramirez-Angulo, H.
%A de Almeida Reis, S.M.
%A Rejou-Machain, M.
%A Correa, Z.R.
%A Bayona, L.R.
%A Rudas, A.
%A Salomão, R.
%A Serrano, J.
%A Espejo, J.S.
%A Silva, N.
%A Singh, J.
%A Stahl, C.
%A Stropp, J.
%A Swamy, V.
%A Talbot, J.
%A ter Steege, H.
%A Terborgh, J.
%A Thomas, R.
%A Toledo, M.
%A Torres-Lezama, A.
%A Gamarra, L.V.
%A van der Heijden, G.
%A van der Meer, P.
%A van der Hout, P.
%A Martinez, R.V.
%A Vieira, S.A.
%A Cayo, J.V.
%A Vos, V.
%A Zagt, R.
%A Zuidema, P.
%A Galbraith, D.
%J Nature Communications
%D 2020
%V 11
%N 5515
%I Nature Research
%@ 20411723 (Issn)
%F Esquivel-Muelbert_etal2020
%O exported from refbase (http://php.ecofog.gf/refbase/show.php?record=945), last updated on Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:11:41 -0300
%X The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots. While tree mortality rates vary greatly Amazon-wide, on average trees are as likely to die standing as they are broken or uprooted—modes of death with different ecological consequences. Species-level growth rate is the single most important predictor of tree death in Amazonia, with faster-growing species being at higher risk. Within species, however, the slowest-growing trees are at greatest risk while the effect of tree size varies across the basin. In the driest Amazonian region species-level bioclimatic distributional patterns also predict the risk of death, suggesting that these forests are experiencing climatic conditions beyond their adaptative limits. These results provide not only a holistic pan-Amazonian picture of tree death but large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth–survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality. © 2020, The Author(s).
%K bioclimatology
%K carbon sink
%K ecological modeling
%K growth
%K holistic approach
%K mortality
%K mortality risk
%K risk factor
%K survival
%K trade-off
%K tropical forest
%K article
%K climate
%K controlled study
%K forest
%K growth rate
%K human
%K mortality rate
%K biological model
%K biomass
%K Brazil
%K carbon sequestration
%K ecology
%K ecosystem
%K environmental monitoring
%K development and aging
%K proportional hazards model
%K tree
%K tropic climate
%K Amazonia
%K carbon dioxide
%K Forests
%K Models
%K Biological
%K Proportional Hazards Models
%K Risk Factors
%K Trees
%K Tropical Climate
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18996-3