Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity
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Tree functional diversity increases forest adaptability to climate change by offering various possibilities of functioning.
“Tree functional diversity increases forest adaptability to climate chance by offering various possibilities of functioning99.”
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The indexed Abstract says functional diversity can enhance ecosystem resilience by providing greater response diversity, and that plant trait diversity may enable Amazon forests to adjust to new climate conditions. This supports the proposed mechanism, but the citing sentence states the effect as certain for forests generally, whereas the paper's own finding is qualified and concerns Amazon forests. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSignificant effects on simulation results may emerge from increasing plant functional diversity, representation of key physiological trade-offs and other features that determine water stress on plants, and allowing for community adjustment to environmental heterogeneity and global change.
“Significant effects on simulation results may emerge from increasing plant functional diversity, representation of key physiological trade-offs and other features that determine water stress on plants, and also allowing for community adjustment to environmental heterogeneity and global change32,55,62,99.”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSimulating individual trees can improve the representation of growth and mortality dynamics, which ultimately affect forest dynamics.
“Simulating individual trees can improve the representation of growth and mortality dynamics, which ultimately affect forest dynamics (for example, refs. 61,62,99).”
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Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services
Cadotte, M. W., Carscadden, K., & Mirotchnick, N. (2011) · Journal of Applied Ecology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02048.x · Cited by 2,396 · see citing works
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Flores, B. M., Montoya, E., Sakschewski, B., Nascimento, N., Staal, A., Betts, R. A., Levis, C., Lapola, D. M., Esquível-Muelbert, A., Jakovac, C., et al. (2024) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0 · Cited by 607 · see citing works
Self-citationFunctional recovery of secondary tropical forests
Poorter, L., Rozendaal, D. M. A., Bongers, F., Almeida, D. J. S., Álvarez, F. S., Andrade, J. L., Arreola Villa, L. F., Becknell, J. M., Bhaskar, R., Boukili, V., et al. (2021) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2003405118 · Cited by 147 · see citing works
Self-citationRobust leaf trait relationships across species under global environmental changes
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Ecosystem heterogeneity and diversity mitigate Amazon forest resilience to frequent extreme droughts
Longo, M., Knox, R. G., Levine, N. M., Alves, L. F., Bonal, D., Camargo, P. B., Fitzjarrald, D. R., Hayek, M. N., Restrepo‐Coupe, N., Saleska, S. R., et al. (2018) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/nph.15185 · Cited by 111 · see citing works
- Authors
- Sakschewski, B., von Bloh, W., Boit, A., Poorter, L., Peña-Claros, M., Heinke, J., Joshi, J., & Thonicke, K.
- Affiliations
- Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (DE)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- University of Potsdam (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Sakschewski, Boris
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2016-08-29
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1032-1036
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2512840844
- Cited by
- 307
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 22.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- publish.UP (University of Potsdam) (submittedVersion)
- Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Forest ecology and management
- Keywords
- functional diversity, Amazon rainforest, forest resilience, ecological sorting, climate change, forest biomass, carbon sink, biodiversity
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