Interspecific and Inter‐site Variation in Wood Specific Gravity of Tropical Trees

By H. Muller‐Landau. 2004

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Error propagation in biomass estimation in tropical forests (2013, methodology): “Other measurements can be converted to WSG with various formulae (Muller-Landau 2004; Chave et al. 2009).”
Seeing the forest beyond the trees (2015, background): “…density over Amazonia is unknown, but is expected to be large because of geographic variations in taxonomy and phylogenetic characteristics (Chave et al., 2009), as well as interspecific and inter-site variations in both soil fertility and complex processes of tree mortality (Muller-Landau, 2004).”
Structure and Biomass of Four Lowland Neotropical Forests (2004, methodology): “And r is a wood specific gravity value assigned to every tree $ 30 cm DBH or greater (Muller-Landau 2004).”
Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species. (2006, background): “…averaged across all trees in a given locality, varies considerably among Neotropical forests (Wiemann and Williamson 2002, Baker et al. 2004, Muller-Landau 2004; see Plate 1) and should therefore be included as a predictive variable in large-scale tropical biomass estimation protocols…”
Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum (2016, background): “Soil fertility is known to drive shifts in community-level distributions of aboveground traits (Muller-Landau 2004; ter Steege et al. 2006; Gourlet-Fleury et al. 2011), but our study shows that root traits also respond consistently to soil fertility gradients at both small and large spatial scales…”
Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin (2009, background): “…have been noticed when comparing the same species growing in different forests and/or site conditions (Wiemann and Williamson, 1989; Gonzalez and Fisher, 1998; Woodcock et al., 2000; Muller-Landau, 2004; Roque, 2004; Nogueira et al., 2005, 2007; Schöngart et al., 2005; Wittmann et al., 2006).”
Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits (2015, background): “As predicted, stems with high tissue density and high dry matter content were associated with low soil fertility, a result that is in agreement with several previous studies (Muller-Landau 2004; ter Steege et al. 2006; Ferry et al. 2010; Gourlet-Fleury et al. 2011; Liu et al. 2012).”
Allometric Models for Tree Volume and Total Aboveground Biomass in a Tropical Humid Forest in Costa Rica 1 (2005, background): “The mean specific gravity by species between this study and Muller-Landau (2004) in La Selva was not different; however, the variability of the data in La Selva was considerably higher.”
Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees. (2010, background): “The strongest trait–demography relationships were consistently for WD. Growth rates and WD are negatively related at all stages of development after germination (Kitajima 1994, Muller-Landau 2004, T ABLE 2.”
Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf‐area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single‐species forests: a theoretical investigation (2011, result): “Supporting this idea, we found consistent relationships between low wood density and average mortality rate across species from 4 tropical sites (Appendix S4; see also Muller-Landau 2004; King et al. 2006; Chave et al. 2009).”
Cross‐species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics (2006, background): “Lower mean WD has been seen on higher fertility soils also, at least in the Neotropics (Muller-Landau 2004), although no such trend was seen among species in tropical Guyana (ter Steege and Hammond 2001).”
The role of wood density and stem support costs in the growth and mortality of tropical trees (2006, methodology): “…Journal of Ecology, 94, 670–680 wood densities of snapped trees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, were substantially below average (Putz et al. 1983; Muller-Landau 2004), consistent with the above inference that species with lighter wood and lower support costs incur greater risks of breakage.”
Spatial patterns of wood traits in China are controlled by phylogeny and the environment (2011, result): “However, ter Steege et al. (2006) suggested that the geographical variation in WD of trees in South America was affected primarily by forest dynamics, which in turn was driven by a gradient of soil fertility and dry season length.”
Effects of stem anatomical and structural traits on responses to stem damage: an experimental study in the Bolivian Amazon (2008, background): “Given that wood density is a good predictor of the ability to compartmentalize decay and that wood density generally decreases with fertility, rainfall and disturbance dependence (Muller-Landau 2004; Baker et al. 2004), we expect that many trees characteristic of areas with nutrient-rich soils and p”