One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains

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A., Zent, Stanford, Zent, Egleé L., Cano, Angela, Carrero Márquez, Yrma Andreina, Correa, Diego F., Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa, Flores, Bernardo Monteiro, Galbraith, David, Holmgren, Milena, Kalamandeen, Michelle, Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade, Oliveira, Alexandre A., Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Rocha, Maira, Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni, Sierra, Rodrigo, Tirado, Milton, Umaña, Maria Natalia, van der Heijden, Geertje, Vilanova Torre, Emilio, Ahuite Reategui, Manuel Augusto, Baider, Cláudia, Balslev, Henrik, Cárdenas, Sasha, Casas, Luisa Fernanda, Farfan-Rios, William, Ferreira, Cid, Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo, Mendoza, Casimiro, Mesones, Italo, Parada, Germaine Alexander, Torres-Lezama, Armando, Urrego Giraldo, Ligia Estela, Villarroel, Daniel, Zagt, Roderick, Alexiades, Miguel N., de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida, Garcia-Cabrera, Karina, Hernandez, Lionel, Palacios Cuenca, Walter, Pansini, Susamar, Pauletto, Daniela, Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy, Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe, Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H., Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis and ter Steege, Hans (2024) One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8 (5). pp. 901-911.

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Abstract

Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain tree communities and the critical ecosystem functions they underpin. Here we address this gap by taking a spatially explicit look at Amazonia-wide patterns of tree-species turnover and ecological specialization of the region’s floodplain forests. We show that the majority of Amazonian tree species can inhabit floodplains, and about a sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is ecologically specialized on floodplains. The degree of specialization in floodplain communities is driven by regional flood patterns, with the most compositionally differentiated floodplain forests located centrally within the fluvial network and contingent on the most extraordinary flood magnitudes regionally. Our results provide a spatially explicit view of ecological specialization of floodplain forest communities and expose the need for whole-basin hydrological integrity to protect the Amazon’s tree diversity and its function.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Nature Ecology and Evolution
Publisher:	Nature Research
ISSN:	2397-334X
Departments:	Institute of Science and Environment > Forestry and Conservation
Depositing User:	Joseph Hawes
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2024 20:20
Last Modified:	20 May 2024 15:15
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7593

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