Article
Environmental Sciences
Malay Naskar, Soma Das Sarkar, S. K. Sahu, Pranab Gogoi, B. K. Das
Summary: This study proposed a new risk assessment framework to evaluate the phytoplankton diversity loss induced by barge movement, successfully uncoupling the impact over a spatiotemporal scale. The results identified significant barge-induced impact on phytoplankton diversity and predicted an overall risk of phytoplankton loss. The study also highlighted the utility of these results for better water framework directive for inland waterways.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Statistics & Probability
Saptarshi Chakraborty, Zhihua Su
Summary: The envelope model aims to increase efficiency in multivariate analysis by using dimension reduction techniques. However, most of the existing research on envelope models has been done from a frequentist perspective, with limited literature from a Bayesian point of view. This article proposes a Bayesian framework that can be applied to various envelope model contexts, allowing for straightforward interpretation of model parameters and easy incorporation of prior information. A practical MCMC sampler is provided for implementing the proposed method, and simulations and data examples are included for illustration.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Sebastian Persson, Niek Welkenhuysen, Sviatlana M. Shashkova, Samuel R. Wiqvist, Patrick M. Reith, Gregor R. Schmidt, Umberto M. Picchini, Marija R. Cvijovic
Summary: Understanding the causes and consequences of heterogeneity in cellular populations is crucial for disease treatment and population manipulation. In this study, we propose a Bayesian inference framework to elucidate sources of cell-to-cell variability in yeast signaling, providing deeper insights into the causes and consequences of heterogeneity.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Polina Suter, Jack Kuipers, Niko Beerenwinkel
Summary: This study presents a strategy for learning gene regulatory networks (GRNs) using Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) from gene expression data. The proposed approach is scalable, has high predictive accuracy, and prevents overfitting. The application of DBNs to two time series transcriptomic datasets demonstrates improved classification accuracy and the identification of differences in gene networks between cancer and normal tissues.
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Hanna M. McCaslin, Abigail B. Feuka, Mevin B. Hooten
Summary: Bayesian hierarchical models play a crucial role in ecology, but can be computationally intensive. Recursive Bayesian computing and transformation-assisted RB methods help improve the efficiency and interpretability of Bayesian models, reducing computation time for fitting complex ecological statistical models.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Jeff Borggaard, Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz, Justin Krometis
Summary: We propose and implement a Bayesian approach to estimate the shape of a two-dimensional annular domain enclosing a Stokes flow from sparse and noisy fluid observations. The method provides estimates of uncertainty in the shape due to non-invertibility of the forward map and measurement error. We demonstrate the viability of our framework on three test problems.
Article
Economics
A. Ronald Gallant, Han Hong, Michael P. Leung, Jessie Li
Summary: This paper investigates inference for parameters subject to general nonlinear constraints using classical extremum estimators or Laplace-type estimators. By running MCMC on the penalized version of the problem, it offers a computationally attractive alternative to solving the original constrained optimization problem. Bayesian credible intervals are proven to be asymptotically valid confidence intervals for general functions of the parameters. Both nonadaptive and adaptive penalizations are allowed using the l(p) penalty functions for p >= 1. These methods are motivated by model selection and shrinkage methods such as LASSO and its Bayesian and adaptive versions. The theoretical results are validated through a simulation study and an empirical application on estimating the joint density of U.S. real consumption and asset returns subject to Euler equation constraints in a CRRA asset pricing model.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Maximilian Ramgraber, Mario Schirmer
Summary: Uncertainty estimation is crucial in practical hydrogeology, especially in data-scarce settings. Numerical modeling frameworks can handle subsurface complexity and associated uncertainties, but may have limitations in dealing with boundary uncertainties. The analytic element method (AEM) serves as an efficient and economical alternative for uncertainty estimation, particularly in exploratory research.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Thermodynamics
Haolia Rahman, Hwataik Han
Summary: This study investigates the performance of occupancy-based DCV schemes compared to time-based and CO2-based schemes, by utilizing the Bayes theorem for real-time control of ventilation rate. The study shows that occupancy-based schemes can successfully provide continuous control of ventilation rates without causing recursive problems. Additionally, time delays associated with the control procedure such as dispersion time, sensor-response time, and data processing time were discussed. The proposed approach, based on both occupancy and floor area, was found to provide the best conformity to the ASHRAE standard among the analyzed schemes.
BUILDING SIMULATION
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Ulrike Hiltner, Andreas Huth, Bruno Herault, Anne Holtmann, Achim Braeuning, Rico Fischer
Summary: Selective logging and climate change have significant combined effects on biomass stocks and timber harvest in tropical forests, with repeated logging impacting biomass and timber supply irrespective of climate change intensity. Moderate climate change leads to a slight decrease in average biomass, while intensive climate change can result in a substantial decrease. The combination of selective logging and climate change increases the likelihood of changes in forest dynamics, with rising temperatures playing a key role in driving these changes.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Guowen Huang
Summary: This study compares and evaluates the performance of hourly and daily modeling strategies in estimating daily pollution exposure, and the results consistently show that daily pollution models perform better.
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Yuanyuan Ju, Yan Yang, Mingxing Hu, Lin Dai, Liucang Wu
Summary: This paper develops Bayesian influence analysis methods for spatial data analysis, including local influence method and case influence measures. The impact of small perturbations in data, sampling, and prior is evaluated using Bayesian local influence method, and measures such as Bayes factor, phi-divergence, and posterior mean distance are established to quantify different perturbations in skew-normal spatial autoregression models. A Bayesian case influence measure is presented to examine the influence points in these models. The potential influence points are identified using Cook's posterior mean distance and Cook's posterior mode distance phi-divergence. The effectiveness of the presented methodologies is verified through simulation studies and examples.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Luigi Riso, Marco Guerzoni
Summary: This paper addresses the issue of concept-drift in machine learning in high dimensional problems. It introduces a method that assesses concept drift as an independent characteristic of dataset evolution, regardless of the specific target variable. This method is particularly useful in business environments where the same dataset is used for multiple classifications. Unlike previous methods, it does not require re-testing of each new model, saving computational resources.
INFORMATION SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Statistics & Probability
Fernando Ferraz do Nascimento, Andresson Almeida Azevedo, Valmaria Rocha da Silva Ferraz
Summary: Extreme Value Theory (EVT) focuses on studying the tails of probability distributions to measure extreme events, in river flow data, extreme levels may be related to neighboring rivers, a Bayesian model was proposed to describe the dependence between rivers using a conditional independent structure.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Francesco Di Lauro, Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh, Istvan Z. Kiss, Eben Kenah, Max Jensen, Grzegorz A. Rempala
Summary: This article presents a new method called dynamic survival analysis (DSA) for analyzing stochastic epidemic models. The method utilizes a simple yet powerful observation that approximates population-level trajectories with individual-level times of infection and recovery. Extensive numerical analyses confirm the accuracy and versatility of the method in analyzing epidemic data and estimating parameters. The accompanying software package provides a practical tool for users.
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Christian Messier, Juergen Bauhus, Rita Sousa-Silva, Harald Auge, Lander Baeten, Nadia Barsoum, Helge Bruelheide, Benjamin Caldwell, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Els Dhiedt, Nico Eisenhauer, Gislene Ganade, Dominique Gravel, Joannes Guillemot, Jefferson S. Hall, Andrew Hector, Bruno Herault, Herve Jactel, Julia Koricheva, Holger Kreft, Simone Mereu, Bart Muys, Charles A. Nock, Alain Paquette, John D. Parker, Michael P. Perring, Quentin Ponette, Catherine Potvin, Peter B. Reich, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Florian Schnabel, Kris Verheyen, Martin Weih, Meike Wollni, Delphine Clara Zemp
Summary: As of 2020, the world has around 290 million hectares of planted forests, with 131 million hectares being monoculture forests. Monoculture forests provide timber but lack biodiversity and are more vulnerable to disturbances compared to diverse planted forests. Scientific evidence shows that functionally and species diverse planted forests are more resilient and provide greater ecosystem services. Promoting diverse planted forests requires raising awareness, incentivizing diversity in afforestation programs, developing new wood-based products, investing in research, and expanding the evidence base in under-represented regions.
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
E. Sanial, F. Ruf, D. Louppe, M. Mietton, B. Herault
Summary: Forests in tropical areas have severely declined, making agroforestry an important compromise between crop production, income diversification, and forest preservation. This study analyzes the ecosystem services provided by cocoa agroforestry based on different tree origins, including remnants, recruits, and planted trees. The results show that trees from different origins provide different services, with remnants storing the most carbon, recruits being the most diverse and medicinal, and planted trees providing food resources. The management by farmers heavily influences the ecosystem services provided, highlighting the importance of human management in Ivorian cocoa agrosystems.
AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Danae M. A. Rozendaal, Daniela Requena Suarez, Veronique De Sy, Valerio Avitabile, Sarah Carter, C. Y. Adou Yao, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Benjamin Barca, Timothy R. Baker, Luca Birigazzi, Frans Bongers, Anne Branthomme, Roel J. W. Brienen, Joao M. B. Carreiras, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Mathieu Decuyper, Ben DeVries, Andres B. Espejo, Ted R. Feldpausch, Julian Fox, Javier Gamarra, Bronson W. Griscom, Nancy Harris, Bruno Herault, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Inge Jonckheere, Eric Konan, Sara M. Leavitt, Simon L. Lewis, Jeremy A. Lindsell, Justin Kassi N'Dja, Anny Estelle N'Guessan, Beatriz Marimon, Edward T. A. Mitchard, Abel Monteagudo, Alexandra Morel, Anssi Pekkarinen, Oliver L. Phillips, Lourens Poorter, Lan Qie, Ervan Rutishauser, Casey M. Ryan, Maurizio Santoro, Dos Santos Silayo, Plinio Sist, J. W. Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonke, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Emilio Vilanova, Maria M. H. Wang, Eliakimu Zahabu, Martin Herold
Summary: Many countries in the tropics and subtropics rely on default values from IPCC guidelines to monitor and report forest carbon stocks. However, these default values are not accurate and may not reflect the characteristics of different regions and stages of forests. We have revised and provided more refined default values, which have significant implications for estimating carbon stocks and fluxes, and highlight the importance of preserving old-growth forests.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Sylvain Schmitt, Niklas Tysklind, Myriam Heuertz, Bruno Herault
Summary: Research shows that tree species in tropical forests have genetically determined growth strategies in response to treefall gaps and adapt to different light and competition environments. Fast-growing genotypes are more common in light-enriched environments, while slow-growing genotypes are more common in shaded environments.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bienvenu H. K. Amani, Anny Estelle N'Guessan, Victor Van der Meersch, Geraldine Derroire, Camille Piponiot, Aka G. M. Elogne, Karidia Traore, Justin K. N'Dja, Bruno Herault
Summary: The study found that biodiversity recovers faster in secondary forests compared to vegetation composition and biomass. The number of remnant trees positively impacts recovery rates, while the duration of agricultural cultivation has a negative impact. Regional climate and soil conditions also play a significant role in the speed of secondary successions.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Francesco Maria Sabatini, Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, Ute Jandt, Milan Chytry, Richard Field, Michael Kessler, Jonathan Lenoir, Franziska Schrodt, Susan K. Wiser, Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan, Fabio Attorre, Luis Cayuela, Michele De Sanctis, Jurgen Dengler, Sylvia Haider, Mohamed Z. Hatim, Adrian Indreica, Florian Jansen, Anibal Pauchard, Robert K. Peet, Petr Petrik, Valerio D. Pillar, Brody Sandel, Marco Schmidt, Zhiyao Tang, Peter van Bodegom, Kiril Vassilev, Cyrille Violle, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Priya Davidar, Jiri Dolezal, Bruno Herault, Antonio Galan-de-Mera, Jorge Jimenez, Stephan Kambach, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Holger Kreft, Felipe Lezama, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Justin K. N'Dja, Oliver L. Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Petr Sklenar, Karina Speziale, Ben J. Strohbach, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hua-Feng Wang, Karsten Wesche, Helge Bruelheide
Summary: “Global patterns of regional plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether they hold for local communities is debated. This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.”
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Aka G. M. Elogne, Camille Piponiot, Irie C. Zo-Bi, Bienvenu H. K. Amani, Victor Van der Meersch, Bruno Herault
Summary: Understanding the response of commercial timber species to fire is crucial for sustainable forest management strategies in West Africa. This study examines the long-term demographic and growth responses of 20 timber species after a heterogeneous fire in a West African forest. The results show that fire has led to lower current abundances but higher growth in burnt areas. Species with high wood density or thin bark are found to be more vulnerable to fire. Fire management is a top priority in West African forests to maintain timber species populations and the forest industry.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Nadja Rueger, Markus E. Schorn, Stephan Kambach, Robin L. Chazdon, Caroline E. Farrior, Jorge A. Meave, Rodrigo Munoz, Michiel van Breugel, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, Dylan Craven, Bruno Herault, Catarina C. Jakovac, Natalia Norden, Lourens Poorter, Masha T. van der Sande, Christian Wirth, Diego Delgado, Daisy H. Dent, Saara J. DeWalt, Juan M. Dupuy, Bryan Finegan, Jefferson S. Hall, Jose L. Hernandez-Stefanoni, Omar R. Lopez
Summary: By analyzing repeated forest inventory data from wet and dry forests in Mexico and Central America, we discovered two demographic trade-offs and identified five demographic strategies for tree species. Our findings challenge the current conceptual model of Neotropical forest succession by showing the dominance of long-lived pioneers throughout the successional gradient. These findings have significant implications for understanding and predicting the mechanisms of tropical forest succession.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Guille Peguero, Fernando Coello, Jordi Sardans, Dolores Asensio, Oriol Grau, Joan Llusia, Roma Ogaya, Ifigenia Urbina, Leandro Van Langenhove, Lore T. Verryckt, Clement Stahl, Laetitia Brechet, Elodie A. Courtois, Jerome Chave, Bruno Herault, Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Penuelas
Summary: Soil nutrient availability and functional traits interact in complex ways during the assembly of tree communities, with strong associations between nutrient concentration and tree species composition. Soil nitrogen concentration has a positive effect on functional space and evenness at the site level, while it negatively affects the functional space not occupied by any species in the tree community. Leaf nitrogen shows evolutionary lability among sister-species pairs, indicating its influence on tropical tree species diversification patterns.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Iris Hordijk, Daniel S. Maynard, Simon P. Hart, Lidong Mo, Hans ter Steege, Jingjing Liang, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Meinrad Abegg, C. Yves Adou Yao, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio V. Alvarado, Alvarez-Davila Esteban, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Christian Ammer, Clara Anton-Fernandez, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Timothy Baker, Radomir Balazy, Olaf Banki, Jorcely Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Jean-Francois Bastin, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Robin Chazdon, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David B. Clark, Gabriel Colletta, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jose J. Corral-Rivas, Philip Crim, Jonathan Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Andre L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Geraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Amaral Ieda, Aurelie Dourdain, Engone Obiang Nestor Laurier, Brian Enquist, Teresa Eyre, Adande Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Leandro V. Ferreira, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leena Finer, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David Harris, Andrew Hector, Andrea Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Herault, John Herbohn, Annika Hillers, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Hyunkook Cho, Thomas Ibanez, Il Bin Jung, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Johanssen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Koehl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon Lewis, Huicu Lu, Natalia Lukina, Brian Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew Robert Marshall, Emanuel Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo-Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Miscicki Stanislaw, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, Maria G. Nava-Miranda, David Neill, Victor Neldner, Radovan Nevenic, Michael Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alain Paquette, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Elena Parfenova, Minjee Park, Mar Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Maria Teresa Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Irina Polo, Lourens Poorter, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo-Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schongart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimir Seben, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Shvidenko, Javier Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plini Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonke, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Sterenczak, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Raquel Thomas, Elen Tikhonova, Peter Umunay, Vladimir Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van Der Plas, Do Van Tran, Michael E. Van Nuland, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua-Feng Wang, James Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Susan K. Wiser, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Roderick Zagt, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Mo Zhou, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie Casimir Zo-Bi, Thomas W. Crowther
Summary: Biodiversity is important for ecosystems, with higher species richness often leading to increased productivity. However, the relationship between biodiversity and productivity varies across environments and is less pronounced at high levels of species richness. Community evenness can mediate this relationship, and our study shows that it is negatively correlated with species richness and plays a crucial role in the biodiversity-productivity relationship.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Claire Fortunel, Clement Stahl, Sabrina Coste, Camille Ziegler, Geraldine Derroire, Sebastien Levionnois, Isabelle Marechaux, Damien Bonal, Bruno Herault, Fabien H. Wagner, Lawren Sack, Jerome Chave, Patrick Heuret, Steven Jansen, Grace John, Christine Scoffoni, Santiago Trueba, Megan K. Bartlett
Summary: Water stress can cause persistent declines in plant function, even after rehydration. Traits characterizing leaf resilience to drought can also predict resilience in whole-plant function. The coordination between resilience and resistance observed globally is also present within ecosystems.
Article
Forestry
Aime K. Kouassi, Irie C. Zo-Bi, Raphael Aussenac, Isaac K. Kouame, Marie R. Dago, Anny E. N'guess, Patrick Jagoret, Bruno Herault
Summary: Cocoa production has led to significant forest loss in West Africa. Agroforestry has been proposed as a solution to balance trees and agriculture, leading to tree plantation programs in cocoa fields. However, the success of these programs has not been evaluated in areas with remnant, spontaneous, and planted trees. We conducted an inventory of 150 cocoa fields in Cote d'Ivoire and found that a majority of timber resources come from remnant and spontaneous trees. We suggest focusing on natural regeneration and training farmers in silvicultural management techniques to sustainably provide timber wood in cocoa fields.
TREES FORESTS AND PEOPLE
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Eliott Maurent, Bruno Herault, Camille Piponiot, Geraldine Derroire, Diego Delgado, Bryan Finegan, Melaine Aubry Kientz, Bienvenu H. K. Amani, Marie Ange Ngo Bieng
Summary: Despite the high biodiversity and carbon stocks, tropical forests are heavily disturbed. This study presents a novel modeling framework to examine the recovery of vegetation attributes in differently disturbed forests. Selective logging shows the highest recovery rate in above-ground biomass and diversity, while the intensity of disturbance has a significant effect on taxonomic composition recovery.
ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Sylvain Schmitt, Bruno Herault, Geraldine Derroire
Summary: Tree growth is crucial for species performance, but individual growth variability within a community and the influence of species evolutionary legacy and local environments are not well understood. This study used 36 years of diameter records for 7961 trees from 138 species in the Amazonian forest to assess individual growth. The researchers found that most growth variation occurred among individuals within species, with taxonomy explaining a third of the variation. Species growth was phylogenetically conserved up to the genus level and was predicted by root, wood, and leaf traits. Neighbourhood crowding reduced individual growth, but a significant amount of inter-individual variation remained unexplained, potentially allowing individuals to adapt to the diverse environments of the Amazonian forest.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Peter B. Reich, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Tom Crowther, Cang Hui, Albert Morera, Jean-Francois Bastin, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Jens-Christian Svenning, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Cory Merow, Brian Enquist, Maria Kamenetsky, Junho Lee, Jun Zhu, Jinyun Fang, Douglass F. Jacobs, Bryan Pijanowski, Arindam Banerjee, Robert A. Giaquinto, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica Maria Almeyda Zambrano, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard, Radomir Balazy, Chris Baraloto, Jorcely G. Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Jan Bogaert, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Francis Q. Brearley, Eben North Broadbent, Filippo Bussotti, Wendeson Castro da Silva, Ricardo Gomes Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Han Y. H. Chen, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David A. Coomes, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Mathieu Decuyper, Laura E. Dee, Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel, Geraldine Derroire, Marie Noel Kamdem Djuikouo, Tran Van Do, Jiri Dolezal, Ilija-D. - Dordevic, Julien Engel, Tom M. Fayle, Ted R. Feldpausch, Jonas K. Fridman, David J. Harris, Andreas Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Herault, Martin Herold, Thomas Ibanez, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Vivian Kvist Johannsen, Tommaso Jucker, Ahto Kangur, Victor N. Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Deborah K. Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Pramod Kumar Khare, Timothy J. Kileen, Hyun Seok Kim, Henn Korjus, Amit Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Diana Laarmann, Nicolas Labrie, Mait Lang, Simon L. Lewis, Natalia Lukina, Brian S. Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Andrew R. Marshall, Olga V. Martynenko, Abel L. Monteagudo Mendoza, Petr V. Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Nadir C. Pallqui Camacho, Alain Paquette, Minjee Park, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo Luis Peri, Pascal Petronelli, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Daniel Piotto, Lourens Poorter, John R. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Hirma Ram, Zorayda Restrepo Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Rocio Del Pilac Saikia, Samir G. Rolim, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Vladimir Seben, Marcos Silveira, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonke, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Jan Steren, Miroslav Svoboda, Hermann Taedoumg, Nadja Tchebakova, John Terborgh, Elena Tikhonova, Armando Torres-Lezama, Fons van der Plas, Rodolfo Va, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent A. Vos, Hua-Feng Wang, Bertil Westerlund, Lee J. T. White, Susan K. Wiser, Tomasz Zawi, Lise Zemagho, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie C. Zo-Bi, Jingjing Liang
Summary: This study provides a correction for the number of tree species on Earth, and acknowledges the contributions of multiple researchers.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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