Abstract
Aim: Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily, morphologically and physiologically distinct from other trees, and these differences have important consequences for ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration and storage) and in terms of responses to climate change. We quantified global patterns of tree palm relative abundance to help improve understanding of tropical forests and reduce uncertainty about these ecosystems under climate change.
Location: Tropical and subtropical moist forests. Time period: Current. Major taxa studied: Palms (Arecaceae).
Methods: We assembled a pantropical dataset of 2,548 forest plots (covering 1,191 ha) and quantified tree palm (i.e., ≥10 cm diameter at breast height) abundance relative to co-occurring non-palm trees. We compared the relative abundance of tree palms across biogeographical realms and tested for associations with palaeoclimate stability, current climate, edaphic conditions and metrics of forest structure.
Results: On average, the relative abundance of tree palms was more than five times larger between Neotropical locations and other biogeographical realms. Tree palms were absent in most locations outside the Neotropics but present in >80% of Neotropical locations. The relative abundance of tree palms was more strongly associated with local conditions (e.g., higher mean annual precipitation, lower soil fertility, shallower water table and lower plot mean wood density) than metrics of long-term climate stability. Life-form diversity also influenced the patterns; palm assemblages outside the Neotropics comprise many non-tree (e.g., climbing) palms. Finally, we show that tree palms can influence estimates of above-ground biomass, but the magnitude and direction of the effect require additional work.
Conclusions: Tree palms are not only quintessentially tropical, but they are also overwhelmingly Neotropical. Future work to understand the contributions of tree palms to biomass estimates and carbon cycling will be particularly crucial in Neotropical forests.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1495-1514 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Global Ecology and Biogeography |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sep 2020 |
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Copyright the Author(s) 2020. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- above-ground biomass
- abundance patterns
- Arecaceae
- local abiotic conditions
- Neotropics
- pantropical biogeography
- tropical rainforest
- wood density
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The global abundance of tree palms. / Muscarella, Robert; Emilio, Thaise; Phillips, Oliver L.; Lewis, Simon L.; Slik, Ferry; Baker, William J.; Couvreur, Thomas L.P.; Eiserhardt, Wolf L.; Svenning, Jens Christian; Affum-Baffoe, Kofi; Aiba, Shin Ichiro; de Almeida, Everton C.; de Almeida, Samuel S.; de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida; Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban; Alves, Luciana F.; Alvez-Valles, Carlos Mariano; Carvalho, Fabrício Alvim; Guarin, Fernando Alzate; Andrade, Ana; Aragão, Luis E.O.C.; Murakami, Alejandro Araujo; Arroyo, Luzmila; Ashton, Peter S.; Corredor, Gerardo A.Aymard; Baker, Timothy R.; de Camargo, Plinio Barbosa; Barlow, Jos; Bastin, Jean François; Bengone, Natacha Nssi; Berenguer, Erika; Berry, Nicholas; Blanc, Lilian; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Bonal, Damien; Bongers, Frans; Bradford, Matt; Brambach, Fabian; Brearley, Francis Q.; Brewer, Steven W.; Camargo, Jose L.C.; Campbell, David G.; Castilho, Carolina V.; Castro, Wendeson; Catchpole, Damien; Cerón Martínez, Carlos E.; Chen, Shengbin; Chhang, Phourin; Cho, Percival; Chutipong, Wanlop; Clark, Connie; Collins, Murray; Comiskey, James A.; Medina, Massiel Nataly Corrales; Costa, Flávia R.C.; Culmsee, Heike; David-Higuita, Heriberto; Davidar, Priya; del Aguila-Pasquel, Jhon; Derroire, Géraldine; Di Fiore, Anthony; Van Do, Tran; Doucet, Jean Louis; Dourdain, Aurélie; Drake, Donald R.; Ensslin, Andreas; Erwin, Terry; Ewango, Corneille E.N.; Ewers, Robert M.; Fauset, Sophie; Feldpausch, Ted R.; Ferreira, Joice; Ferreira, Leandro Valle; Fischer, Markus; Franklin, Janet; Fredriksson, Gabriella M.; Gillespie, Thomas W.; Gilpin, Martin; Gonmadje, Christelle; Gunatilleke, Arachchige Upali Nimal; Hakeem, Khalid Rehman; Hall, Jefferson S.; Hamer, Keith C.; Harris, David J.; Harrison, Rhett D.; Hector, Andrew; Hemp, Andreas; Herault, Bruno; Pizango, Carlos Gabriel Hidalgo; Coronado, Eurídice N.Honorio; Hubau, Wannes; Hussain, Mohammad Shah; Ibrahim, Faridah Hanum; Imai, Nobuo; Joly, Carlos A.; Joseph, Shijo; Anitha, K.; Kartawinata, Kuswata; Kassi, Justin; Killeen, Timothy J.; Kitayama, Kanehiro; Klitgård, Bente Bang; Kooyman, Robert; Labrière, Nicolas; Larney, Eileen; Laumonier, Yves; Laurance, Susan G.; Laurance, William F.; Lawes, Michael J.; Levesley, Aurora; Lisingo, Janvier; Lovejoy, Thomas; Lovett, Jon C.; Lu, Xinghui; Lykke, Anne Mette; Magnusson, William E.; Mahayani, Ni Putu Diana; Malhi, Yadvinder; Mansor, Asyraf; Peña, Jose Luis Marcelo; Marimon-Junior, Ben H.; Marshall, Andrew R.; Melgaco, Karina; Bautista, Casimiro Mendoza; Mihindou, Vianet; Millet, Jérôme; Milliken, William; Mohandass, D.; Mendoza, Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo; Mugerwa, Badru; Nagamasu, Hidetoshi; Nagy, Laszlo; Seuaturien, Naret; Nascimento, Marcelo T.; Neill, David A.; Neto, Luiz Menini; Nilus, Rueben; Vargas, Mario Percy Núñez; Nurtjahya, Eddy; de Araújo, R. Nazaré O.; Onrizal, Onrizal; Palacios, Walter A.; Palacios-Ramos, Sonia; Parren, Marc; Paudel, Ekananda; Morandi, Paulo S.; Pennington, R. Toby; Pickavance, Georgia; Pipoly, John J.; Pitman, Nigel C.A.; Poedjirahajoe, Erny; Poorter, Lourens; Poulsen, John R.; Rama Chandra Prasad, P.; Prieto, Adriana; Puyravaud, Jean Philippe; Qie, Lan; Quesada, Carlos A.; Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma; Razafimahaimodison, Jean Claude; Reitsma, Jan Meindert; Requena-Rojas, Edilson J.; Correa, Zorayda Restrepo; Rodriguez, Carlos Reynel; Roopsind, Anand; Rovero, Francesco; Rozak, Andes; Lleras, Agustín Rudas; Rutishauser, Ervan; Rutten, Gemma; Punchi-Manage, Ruwan; Salomão, Rafael P.; Van Sam, Hoang; Sarker, Swapan Kumar; Satdichanh, Manichanh; Schietti, Juliana; Schmitt, Christine B.; Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes; Senbeta, Feyera; Nath Sharma, Lila; Sheil, Douglas; Sierra, Rodrigo; Silva-Espejo, Javier E.; Silveira, Marcos; Sonké, Bonaventure; Steininger, Marc K.; Steinmetz, Robert; Stévart, Tariq; Sukumar, Raman; Sultana, Aisha; Sunderland, Terry C.H.; Suresh, Hebbalalu Satyanarayana; Tang, Jianwei; Tanner, Edmund; ter Steege, Hans; Terborgh, John W.; Theilade, Ida; Timberlake, Jonathan; Torres-Lezama, Armando; Umunay, Peter; Uriarte, María; Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela; van de Bult, Martin; van der Hout, Peter; Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez; Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães; Vieira, Simone A.; Vilanova, Emilio; Cayo, Jeanneth Villalobos; Wang, Ophelia; Webb, Campbell O.; Webb, Edward L.; White, Lee; Whitfeld, Timothy J.S.; Wich, Serge; Willcock, Simon; Wiser, Susan K.; Young, Kenneth R.; Zakaria, Rahmad; Zang, Runguo; Zartman, Charles E.; Zo-Bi, Irié Casimir; Balslev, Henrik.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 29, No. 9, 09.2020, p. 1495-1514.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - The global abundance of tree palms
AU - Muscarella, Robert
AU - Emilio, Thaise
AU - Phillips, Oliver L.
AU - Lewis, Simon L.
AU - Slik, Ferry
AU - Baker, William J.
AU - Couvreur, Thomas L.P.
AU - Eiserhardt, Wolf L.
AU - Svenning, Jens Christian
AU - Affum-Baffoe, Kofi
AU - Aiba, Shin Ichiro
AU - de Almeida, Everton C.
AU - de Almeida, Samuel S.
AU - de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida
AU - Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban
AU - Alves, Luciana F.
AU - Alvez-Valles, Carlos Mariano
AU - Carvalho, Fabrício Alvim
AU - Guarin, Fernando Alzate
AU - Andrade, Ana
AU - Aragão, Luis E.O.C.
AU - Murakami, Alejandro Araujo
AU - Arroyo, Luzmila
AU - Ashton, Peter S.
AU - Corredor, Gerardo A.Aymard
AU - Baker, Timothy R.
AU - de Camargo, Plinio Barbosa
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Bastin, Jean François
AU - Bengone, Natacha Nssi
AU - Berenguer, Erika
AU - Berry, Nicholas
AU - Blanc, Lilian
AU - Böhning-Gaese, Katrin
AU - Bonal, Damien
AU - Bongers, Frans
AU - Bradford, Matt
AU - Brambach, Fabian
AU - Brearley, Francis Q.
AU - Brewer, Steven W.
AU - Camargo, Jose L.C.
AU - Campbell, David G.
AU - Castilho, Carolina V.
AU - Castro, Wendeson
AU - Catchpole, Damien
AU - Cerón Martínez, Carlos E.
AU - Chen, Shengbin
AU - Chhang, Phourin
AU - Cho, Percival
AU - Chutipong, Wanlop
AU - Clark, Connie
AU - Collins, Murray
AU - Comiskey, James A.
AU - Medina, Massiel Nataly Corrales
AU - Costa, Flávia R.C.
AU - Culmsee, Heike
AU - David-Higuita, Heriberto
AU - Davidar, Priya
AU - del Aguila-Pasquel, Jhon
AU - Derroire, Géraldine
AU - Di Fiore, Anthony
AU - Van Do, Tran
AU - Doucet, Jean Louis
AU - Dourdain, Aurélie
AU - Drake, Donald R.
AU - Ensslin, Andreas
AU - Erwin, Terry
AU - Ewango, Corneille E.N.
AU - Ewers, Robert M.
AU - Fauset, Sophie
AU - Feldpausch, Ted R.
AU - Ferreira, Joice
AU - Ferreira, Leandro Valle
AU - Fischer, Markus
AU - Franklin, Janet
AU - Fredriksson, Gabriella M.
AU - Gillespie, Thomas W.
AU - Gilpin, Martin
AU - Gonmadje, Christelle
AU - Gunatilleke, Arachchige Upali Nimal
AU - Hakeem, Khalid Rehman
AU - Hall, Jefferson S.
AU - Hamer, Keith C.
AU - Harris, David J.
AU - Harrison, Rhett D.
AU - Hector, Andrew
AU - Hemp, Andreas
AU - Herault, Bruno
AU - Pizango, Carlos Gabriel Hidalgo
AU - Coronado, Eurídice N.Honorio
AU - Hubau, Wannes
AU - Hussain, Mohammad Shah
AU - Ibrahim, Faridah Hanum
AU - Imai, Nobuo
AU - Joly, Carlos A.
AU - Joseph, Shijo
AU - Anitha, K.
AU - Kartawinata, Kuswata
AU - Kassi, Justin
AU - Killeen, Timothy J.
AU - Kitayama, Kanehiro
AU - Klitgård, Bente Bang
AU - Kooyman, Robert
AU - Labrière, Nicolas
AU - Larney, Eileen
AU - Laumonier, Yves
AU - Laurance, Susan G.
AU - Laurance, William F.
AU - Lawes, Michael J.
AU - Levesley, Aurora
AU - Lisingo, Janvier
AU - Lovejoy, Thomas
AU - Lovett, Jon C.
AU - Lu, Xinghui
AU - Lykke, Anne Mette
AU - Magnusson, William E.
AU - Mahayani, Ni Putu Diana
AU - Malhi, Yadvinder
AU - Mansor, Asyraf
AU - Peña, Jose Luis Marcelo
AU - Marimon-Junior, Ben H.
AU - Marshall, Andrew R.
AU - Melgaco, Karina
AU - Bautista, Casimiro Mendoza
AU - Mihindou, Vianet
AU - Millet, Jérôme
AU - Milliken, William
AU - Mohandass, D.
AU - Mendoza, Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo
AU - Mugerwa, Badru
AU - Nagamasu, Hidetoshi
AU - Nagy, Laszlo
AU - Seuaturien, Naret
AU - Nascimento, Marcelo T.
AU - Neill, David A.
AU - Neto, Luiz Menini
AU - Nilus, Rueben
AU - Vargas, Mario Percy Núñez
AU - Nurtjahya, Eddy
AU - de Araújo, R. Nazaré O.
AU - Onrizal, Onrizal
AU - Palacios, Walter A.
AU - Palacios-Ramos, Sonia
AU - Parren, Marc
AU - Paudel, Ekananda
AU - Morandi, Paulo S.
AU - Pennington, R. Toby
AU - Pickavance, Georgia
AU - Pipoly, John J.
AU - Pitman, Nigel C.A.
AU - Poedjirahajoe, Erny
AU - Poorter, Lourens
AU - Poulsen, John R.
AU - Rama Chandra Prasad, P.
AU - Prieto, Adriana
AU - Puyravaud, Jean Philippe
AU - Qie, Lan
AU - Quesada, Carlos A.
AU - Ramírez-Angulo, Hirma
AU - Razafimahaimodison, Jean Claude
AU - Reitsma, Jan Meindert
AU - Requena-Rojas, Edilson J.
AU - Correa, Zorayda Restrepo
AU - Rodriguez, Carlos Reynel
AU - Roopsind, Anand
AU - Rovero, Francesco
AU - Rozak, Andes
AU - Lleras, Agustín Rudas
AU - Rutishauser, Ervan
AU - Rutten, Gemma
AU - Punchi-Manage, Ruwan
AU - Salomão, Rafael P.
AU - Van Sam, Hoang
AU - Sarker, Swapan Kumar
AU - Satdichanh, Manichanh
AU - Schietti, Juliana
AU - Schmitt, Christine B.
AU - Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes
AU - Senbeta, Feyera
AU - Nath Sharma, Lila
AU - Sheil, Douglas
AU - Sierra, Rodrigo
AU - Silva-Espejo, Javier E.
AU - Silveira, Marcos
AU - Sonké, Bonaventure
AU - Steininger, Marc K.
AU - Steinmetz, Robert
AU - Stévart, Tariq
AU - Sukumar, Raman
AU - Sultana, Aisha
AU - Sunderland, Terry C.H.
AU - Suresh, Hebbalalu Satyanarayana
AU - Tang, Jianwei
AU - Tanner, Edmund
AU - ter Steege, Hans
AU - Terborgh, John W.
AU - Theilade, Ida
AU - Timberlake, Jonathan
AU - Torres-Lezama, Armando
AU - Umunay, Peter
AU - Uriarte, María
AU - Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela
AU - van de Bult, Martin
AU - van der Hout, Peter
AU - Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez
AU - Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
AU - Vieira, Simone A.
AU - Vilanova, Emilio
AU - Cayo, Jeanneth Villalobos
AU - Wang, Ophelia
AU - Webb, Campbell O.
AU - Webb, Edward L.
AU - White, Lee
AU - Whitfeld, Timothy J.S.
AU - Wich, Serge
AU - Willcock, Simon
AU - Wiser, Susan K.
AU - Young, Kenneth R.
AU - Zakaria, Rahmad
AU - Zang, Runguo
AU - Zartman, Charles E.
AU - Zo-Bi, Irié Casimir
AU - Balslev, Henrik
N1 - Copyright the Author(s) 2020. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - Aim: Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily, morphologically and physiologically distinct from other trees, and these differences have important consequences for ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration and storage) and in terms of responses to climate change. We quantified global patterns of tree palm relative abundance to help improve understanding of tropical forests and reduce uncertainty about these ecosystems under climate change. Location: Tropical and subtropical moist forests. Time period: Current. Major taxa studied: Palms (Arecaceae). Methods: We assembled a pantropical dataset of 2,548 forest plots (covering 1,191 ha) and quantified tree palm (i.e., ≥10 cm diameter at breast height) abundance relative to co-occurring non-palm trees. We compared the relative abundance of tree palms across biogeographical realms and tested for associations with palaeoclimate stability, current climate, edaphic conditions and metrics of forest structure. Results: On average, the relative abundance of tree palms was more than five times larger between Neotropical locations and other biogeographical realms. Tree palms were absent in most locations outside the Neotropics but present in >80% of Neotropical locations. The relative abundance of tree palms was more strongly associated with local conditions (e.g., higher mean annual precipitation, lower soil fertility, shallower water table and lower plot mean wood density) than metrics of long-term climate stability. Life-form diversity also influenced the patterns; palm assemblages outside the Neotropics comprise many non-tree (e.g., climbing) palms. Finally, we show that tree palms can influence estimates of above-ground biomass, but the magnitude and direction of the effect require additional work. Conclusions: Tree palms are not only quintessentially tropical, but they are also overwhelmingly Neotropical. Future work to understand the contributions of tree palms to biomass estimates and carbon cycling will be particularly crucial in Neotropical forests.
AB - Aim: Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily, morphologically and physiologically distinct from other trees, and these differences have important consequences for ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration and storage) and in terms of responses to climate change. We quantified global patterns of tree palm relative abundance to help improve understanding of tropical forests and reduce uncertainty about these ecosystems under climate change. Location: Tropical and subtropical moist forests. Time period: Current. Major taxa studied: Palms (Arecaceae). Methods: We assembled a pantropical dataset of 2,548 forest plots (covering 1,191 ha) and quantified tree palm (i.e., ≥10 cm diameter at breast height) abundance relative to co-occurring non-palm trees. We compared the relative abundance of tree palms across biogeographical realms and tested for associations with palaeoclimate stability, current climate, edaphic conditions and metrics of forest structure. Results: On average, the relative abundance of tree palms was more than five times larger between Neotropical locations and other biogeographical realms. Tree palms were absent in most locations outside the Neotropics but present in >80% of Neotropical locations. The relative abundance of tree palms was more strongly associated with local conditions (e.g., higher mean annual precipitation, lower soil fertility, shallower water table and lower plot mean wood density) than metrics of long-term climate stability. Life-form diversity also influenced the patterns; palm assemblages outside the Neotropics comprise many non-tree (e.g., climbing) palms. Finally, we show that tree palms can influence estimates of above-ground biomass, but the magnitude and direction of the effect require additional work. Conclusions: Tree palms are not only quintessentially tropical, but they are also overwhelmingly Neotropical. Future work to understand the contributions of tree palms to biomass estimates and carbon cycling will be particularly crucial in Neotropical forests.
KW - above-ground biomass
KW - abundance patterns
KW - Arecaceae
KW - local abiotic conditions
KW - Neotropics
KW - pantropical biogeography
KW - tropical rainforest
KW - wood density
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U2 - 10.1111/geb.13123
DO - 10.1111/geb.13123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087650501
VL - 29
SP - 1495
EP - 1514
JO - Global Ecology and Biogeography
JF - Global Ecology and Biogeography
SN - 1466-822X
IS - 9
ER -