Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

Lourens Poorter (1) , Danaë Rozendaal , Frans Bongers (2) , Jarcilene de Almeida-Cortez , Angélica María Almeyda Zambrano , Francisco Álvarez , José Luís Andrade , Luis Felipe Arreola Villa , Patricia Balvanera (3) , Justin Becknell , Tony Bentos , Radika Bhaskar , Vanessa Boukili , Pedro Brancalion , Eben Broadbent , Ricardo César , Jérôme Chave (4) , Robin Chazdon , Gabriel Dalla Colletta , Dylan Craven , Ben de Jong , Julie Denslow , Daisy Dent , Saara Dewalt , Elisa Díaz García , Juan Manuel Dupuy , Sandra Durán , Mário Espírito Santo , María Fandiño , Geraldo Wilson Fernandes (5) , Bryan Finegan , Vanessa Granda Moser , Jefferson Hall , José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni , Catarina Jakovac , André Junqueira (6) , Deborah Kennard , Edwin Lebrija-Trejos , Susan Letcher , Madelon Lohbeck , Omar Lopez (7) , Erika Marín-Spiotta (8) , Miguel Martínez-Ramos , Sebastiao Martins (9) , Paulo Massoca , Jorge Meave , Rita Mesquita , Francisco Mora , Vanessa de Souza Moreno , Sandra Muller (10) , Rodrigo Muñoz , Robert Muscarella , Silvio Nolasco de Oliveira Neto , Yule Nunes , Susana Ochoa-Gaona , Horacio Paz , Marielos Pena-Claros (1) , Daniel Piotto (11) , Jorge Ruíz , Lucía Sanaphre-Villanueva , Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa (12) , Naomi Schwartz (13) , Marc Steininger (14) , William Wayt Thomas , Marisol Toledo (15) , Maria Uriarte (13) , Luis Utrera , Michiel van Breugel (16) , Masha van Der Sande , Hans van Der Wal , Maria Veloso , Hans Vester , Ima Vieira (17) , Pedro Manuel Villa , G. Bruce Williamson , S. Joseph Wright (16) , Kátia Zanini , Jess Zimmerman , Mark Westoby (18)

1 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
2 Forest Ecol & Forest Management Grp
3 Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (IIES)
4 EDB - Evolution et Diversité Biologique
5 UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais = Federal University of Minas Gerais [Belo Horizonte, Brazil]
6 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
7 Mechanical Engineering Department
8 University of Wisconsin-Madison
9 Department of Medicine [New York]
10 UFES - Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica [Vitoria] (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo)
11 UFBA - Universidade Federal da Bahia
12 Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences [Edmonton]
13 Columbia University [New York]
14 Conservation International
15 IBIF - Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal
16 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
17 Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
18 Dpt Biological Sciences, Macquarie University

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Biodiversité et Ecologie

Lourens Poorter, Danaë Rozendaal, Frans Bongers, Jarcilene de Almeida-Cortez, Angélica María Almeyda Zambrano, et al.. Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019, 3 (6), pp.928-934. ⟨10.1038/s41559-019-0882-6⟩. ⟨hal-02403070⟩