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Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities

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H?lsmann L. Chisholm R.A. Comita L. Visser M.D. de Souza Leite M. Aguilar S. Anderson-Teixeira K.J. Bourg N.A. Brockelman W.Y. Bunyavejchewin S. Casta?o N. Chang-Yang C.-H. Chuyong G.B. Clay K. Davies S.J. Duque A. Ediriweera S. Ewango C. Gilbert G.S. Hol?k J. Howe R.W. Hubbell S.P. Itoh A. Johnson D.J. Kenfack D. Kr?l K. Larson A.J. Lutz J.A. Makana J.-R. Malhi Y. McMahon S.M. McShea W.J. Mohamad M. Nasardin M. Nathalang A. Norden N. Oliveira A.A. Parmigiani R. Perez R. Phillips R.P. Pongpattananurak N. Sun I.-F. Swanson M.E. Tan S. Thomas D. Thompson J. Uriarte M. Wolf A.T. Yao T.L. Zimmerman J.K. Zuleta D. Hartig F.

Affiliations

Ecosystem Analysis and Simulation (EASI) Lab University of Bayreuth Bayreuth Germany; Theoretical Ecology University of Regensburg Regensburg Germany; Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) University of Bayreuth Bayreuth Germany; Department of Biological Sciences National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore; School of the Environment Yale University New Haven CT United States; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama City Panama; Institute of Environmental Sciences Leiden University Leiden Netherlands; Department of Ecology University of S?o Paulo S?o Paulo Brazil; Forest Global Earth Observatory Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama City Panama; Conservation Ecology Center Smithsonian抯 National Zoo & amp; Conservation Biology Institute Front Royal VA United States; National Biobank of Thailand (NBT) National Science and Technology Development Agency Bangkok Thailand; Institute of Molecular Biosciences Mahidol University Nakhon Pathom Thailand; Thai Long Term Forest Ecological Research Project Department of Forest Biology Faculty of Forestry Kasetsart University Bangkok Thailand; Instituto Amaz?nico de Investigaciones Cient?ficas Sinchi Bogot? Colombia; Department of Biological Sciences National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung Taiwan; Department of Plant Science University of Buea Buea Cameroon; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Tulane University New Orleans LA United States; Forest Global Earth Observatory Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Washington DC United States; Departamento de Ciencias Forestales Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medell?n Medell?n Colombia; Department of Science and Technology Uva Wellassa University Badulla Sri Lanka; University of Kisangani Kisangani Congo; Environmental Studies Department University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz CA United States; Department of Forest Ecology Silva Tarouca Research Institute Brno Czech Republic; Cofrin Center for Biodiversity Department of Biology University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Green Bay WI United States; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles CA United States; Graduate School of Science Osaka Metropolitan University Osaka Japan; School of Forest Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences University of Florida Gainesville FL United States; Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Washington DC United States; Department of Forest Management University of Montana Missoula MT United States; Wilderness Institute University of Montana Missoula MT United States; Department of Wildland Resources Utah State University Logan UT United States; Environmental Change Institute School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater MD United States; Sarawak Forest Department Kuching Malaysia; Forest Research Institute Malaysia Kepong Malaysia; Instituto de Investigaci?n de Recursos Biol?gicos Alexander von Humboldt Bogot? Colombia; Department of Biology Indiana University Bloomington IN United States; Department of Forest Biology Faculty of Forestry Kasetsart University Bangkok Thailand; Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies National Donghwa University Hualien Taiwan; School of the Environment Washington State University Pullman WA United States; Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Oregon State University Corvallis OR United States; UK Centre for Ecology & amp; Hydrology Bush Estate Penicuik United Kingdom; Department of Ecology Evolution & amp; Environmental Biology Columbia University New York NY United States; Department of Biology University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Green Bay WI United States; Department of Environmental Science University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras United States

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Article

Source Title

Nature

ISSN

280836

Year

2024

Volume

627

Issue

8004

Page

564-571

Open Access

All Open Access Hybrid Gold

Publisher

Nature Research

DOI

10.1038/s41586-024-07118-4

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown reduced performance in plants that are surrounded by neighbours of the same species1 2 a phenomenon known as conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD)3. A long-held ecological hypothesis posits that CNDD is more pronounced in tropical than in temperate forests4 5 which increases community stabilization species coexistence and the diversity of local tree species6 7. Previous analyses supporting such a latitudinal gradient in CNDD8 9 have suffered from methodological limitations related to the use of static data10�. Here we present a comprehensive assessment of latitudinal CNDD patterns using dynamic mortality data to estimate species-site-specific CNDD across 23 sites. Averaged across species we found that stabilizing CNDD was present at all except one site but that average stabilizing燙NDD was not stronger toward the tropics. However in tropical tree communities rare and intermediate abundant species experienced stronger stabilizing CNDD than did common species. This pattern was absent in temperate forests which suggests that CNDD influences species abundances more strongly in tropical forests than it does in temperate ones13. We also found that interspecific variation in CNDD which might attenuate its stabilizing effect on species diversity14 15 was high but not significantly different across latitudes. Although the consequences of these patterns for latitudinal diversity gradients are difficult to evaluate we speculate that a more effective regulation of population abundances could translate into greater stabilization of tropical tree communities and thus contribute to the high local diversity of tropical forests. ? The Author(s) 2024.

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