Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/24:00602488 RIV/86652079:_____/24:00602488 RIV/60460709:41320/24:100432 RIV/60076658:12310/24:43908699

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13889" target="_blank" >10.1111/geb.13889</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats

Original language description

AimEcological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation management it is important to understand the drivers of dominance and rarity in local tree communities. We answer the following research questions: (1) What are the patterns of dominance and rarity in tree communities? (2) Which ecological and anthropogenic factors predict these patterns? And (3) what is the extinction risk of locally dominant and rare tree species?LocationGlobal.Time period1990-2017.Major taxa studiedTrees.MethodsWe used 1.2 million forest plots and quantified local tree dominance as the relative plot basal area of the single most dominant species and local rarity as the percentage of species that contribute together to the least 10% of plot basal area. We mapped global community dominance and rarity using machine learning models and evaluated the ecological and anthropogenic predictors with linear models. Extinction risk, for example threatened status, of geographically widespread dominant and rare species was evaluated.ResultsCommunity dominance and rarity show contrasting latitudinal trends, with boreal forests having high levels of dominance and tropical forests having high levels of rarity. Increasing annual precipitation reduces community dominance, probably because precipitation is related to an increase in tree density and richness. Additionally, stand age is positively related to community dominance, due to stem diameter increase of the most dominant species. Surprisingly, we find that locally dominant and rare species, which are geographically widespread in our data, have an equally high rate of elevated extinction due to declining populations through large-scale land degradation.Main conclusionsBy linking patterns and predictors of community dominance and rarity to extinction risk, our results suggest that also widespread species should be considered in large-scale management and conservation practices.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Ecology and Biogeography

ISSN

1466-822X

e-ISSN

1466-8238

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

e13889

UT code for WoS article

001270290100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85198729556