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Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland.
Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Nat Commun. 2025 May 22;16(1):4773. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7.
Species' traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. The extent to which traits of dominant and rare tree species differ remains untested across a broad environmental range, limiting our understanding of how species traits and the environment shape forest functional composition. We use a global dataset of tree composition of >22,000 forest plots and 11 traits of 1663 tree species to ask how locally dominant and rare species differ in their trait values, and how these differences are driven by climatic gradients in temperature and water availability in forest biomes across the globe. We find three consistent trait differences between locally dominant and rare species across all biomes; dominant species are taller, have softer wood and higher loading on the multivariate stem strategy axis (related to narrow tracheids and thick bark). The difference between traits of dominant and rare species is more strongly driven by temperature compared to water availability, as temperature might affect a larger number of traits. Therefore, climate change driven global temperature rise may have a strong effect on trait differences between dominant and rare tree species and may lead to changes in species abundances and therefore strong community reassembly.
物种特征和环境条件决定了全球范围内树木物种的丰度。在广泛的环境范围内,优势树种和稀有树种的特征差异程度仍未得到检验,这限制了我们对物种特征和环境如何塑造森林功能组成的理解。我们使用一个包含超过22000个森林样地的树木组成以及1663个树种的11个特征的全球数据集,来探究本地优势树种和稀有树种在特征值上有何不同,以及这些差异是如何由全球森林生物群落中温度和水分可利用性的气候梯度驱动的。我们发现在所有生物群落中,本地优势树种和稀有树种之间存在三个一致的特征差异;优势树种更高,木材更软,并且在多变量茎策略轴上的负荷更高(与狭窄的管胞和厚树皮有关)。与水分可利用性相比,温度对优势树种和稀有树种特征差异的驱动作用更强,因为温度可能会影响更多的特征。因此,气候变化导致的全球气温上升可能会对优势树种和稀有树种之间的特征差异产生强烈影响,并可能导致物种丰度的变化,进而导致群落的强烈重新组合。