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Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests.

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Ter Steege, H; Henkel, TW; Helal, N; Marimon, BS; Marimon-Junior, BH; Huth, A; Groeneveld, J; Sabatier, D; Coelho, LDS; Filho, DDAL; Amaral, IL ...
Published in: Scientific reports
September 2019

Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such "monodominant" forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inventory plots from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing a simple defining metric of at least half of the trees ≥ 10 cm diameter belonging to one species, we found only a few occurrences of monodominance in Amazonia, and the phenomenon was not significantly linked to previously hypothesized life history traits such wood density, seed mass, ectomycorrhizal associations, or Rhizobium nodulation. In our analysis, coppicing (the formation of sprouts at the base of the tree or on roots) was the only trait significantly linked to monodominance. While at specific locales coppicing or ectomycorrhizal associations may confer a considerable advantage to a tree species and lead to its monodominance, very few species have these traits. Mining of the ATDN dataset suggests that monodominance is quite rare in Amazonia, and may be linked primarily to edaphic factors.

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2045-2322

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2045-2322

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September 2019

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9

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1

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13822
 

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Ter Steege, H., Henkel, T. W., Helal, N., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Huth, A., … Melgaço, K. (2019). Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 13822. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9
Ter Steege, Hans, Terry W. Henkel, Nora Helal, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andreas Huth, Jürgen Groeneveld, et al. “Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests.Scientific Reports 9, no. 1 (September 2019): 13822. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9.
Ter Steege H, Henkel TW, Helal N, Marimon BS, Marimon-Junior BH, Huth A, et al. Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. Scientific reports. 2019 Sep;9(1):13822.
Ter Steege, Hans, et al. “Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests.Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2019, p. 13822. Epmc, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9.
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Published In

Scientific reports

DOI

EISSN

2045-2322

ISSN

2045-2322

Publication Date

September 2019

Volume

9

Issue

1

Start / End Page

13822