Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world's forests

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/25:00637696 RIV/86652079:_____/25:00637696 RIV/60460709:41320/25:102528 RIV/60076658:12310/25:43910113

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59754-7" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59754-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world's forests

Original language description

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.

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

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Nature Communications

ISSN

2041-1723

e-ISSN

2041-1723

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

4773

UT code for WoS article

001502195800007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105005619046