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Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe the variability of strategies involving leaf, wood and demographic characteristics for tree genera distributed across the Amazon Region, and quantify phylogenetic signal for the characteristics and their relationships. Leaf and wood traits are aligned with demographic variables along two main axes of variation. The first axis represents the coordination of leaf traits describing resource uptake and use, wood density, seed mass and survival. The second axis represents the coordination between size and growth. Both axes show strong phylogenetic signal, suggesting a constrained evolution influenced by ancestral values, yet the second axis also has an additional, substantial portion of its variation that is driven by functional correlations unrelated to phylogeny, suggesting simultaneously higher evolutionary lability and coordination. Synthesis. Our results suggest that life-history strategies of tropical trees are generally phylogenetically conserved, but that tree lineages may have some capability of responding to environmental changes by modulating their growth and size. Overall, we provide the largest-scale synopsis of functional characteristics of Amazonian trees, showing substantial nuance in the evolutionary patterns of individual characteristics and their relationships.
This repository contains the data and R scripts used in the paper titled: "Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa", published by Pablo Sanchez-Martinez et al. in the journal Functional Ecology in 2024.
The repository contains:
Dataset. Genus level data of Amazonian tree genus functional traits and demographic characteristics. Cells with no available data are coded as "NA".
Phylogeny. Phylogeny used in the analyses, obtained and pruned from (Neves et al. 2020).
R project. Includes the scripts used to analyze the data and the general fonder structure needed to save results and outputs. Analyses are mainly implemented by the TrEvol R package (Sanchez-Martinez et al. 2024).
For any extra information on the method or data please refer to the manuscript materials and methods or contact first author ([email protected]).
This repository contains the data and R scripts used in the paper titled: "Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa", published by Pablo Sanchez-Martinez et al. in the journal Functional Ecology in 2024.
The repository contains:
Dataset. Genus level data of Amazonian tree genus functional traits and demographic characteristics. Cells with no available data are coded as "NA".
Phylogeny. Phylogeny used in the analyses, obtained and pruned from (Neves et al. 2020).
R project. Includes the scripts used to analyze the data and the general fonder structure needed to save results and outputs. Analyses are mainly implemented by the TrEvol R package (Sanchez-Martinez et al. 2024).
For any extra information on the method or data please refer to the manuscript materials and methods or contact first author ([email protected]).
Data Citation
Sanchez-Martinez, Pablo; Dexter, Kyle; Draper, Freddie et al. (2024). Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0gb5mkmb1
| Date made available | 17 Oct 2024 |
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| Publisher | Dryad |
Research output
- 1 Article
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Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Sanchez‐martinez, P., Dexter, K. G., Draper, F. C., Baraloto, C., Leão do amaral, I., De souza coelho, L., De almeida matos, F. D., De andrade lima filho, D., Salomão, R. P., Wittmann, F., Castilho, C. V., De jesus veiga carim, M., Guevara, J. E., Phillips, O. L., Magnusson, W. E., Sabatier, D., Cardenas revilla, J. D., Molino, J., Irume, M. V. & Pires martins, M. & 195 others, , 1 Jan 2025, In: Functional Ecology. 39, 1, p. 181-198Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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