Functional explanations for variation in bark thickness in tropical rain forest trees

By C. E. T. Paine, C. Stahl, Elodie A. Courtois, S. Patiño, C. Sarmiento, C. Baraloto. 2010

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Costs and benefits of relative bark thickness in relation to fire damage: a savanna/forest contrast (2013, background): “…2003; Nefabas & Gambiza 2007; Lawes et al. 2011a; Hoffmann et al. 2012) and dry (Pinard & Huffman 1997), gallery (VanderWeide & Hartnett 2011) and disturbed tropical rainforest trees (Hegde, Chandran & Gadgil 1998; Barlow, Lagan & Peres 2003; Van Nieuwstadt & Sheil 2005; Paine et al. 2010).”
Bark traits and life-history strategies of tropical dry- and moist forest trees (2014, background): “…insulation and assimilate transport, bark fulfils many other functions including defence against herbivores and pathogens, avoidance of mechanic injury by large mammals, reduction in water loss from stems, provision of structural support and repair after injury (Paine et al. 2010; Romero 2013).”
Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species (2012, methodology): “Bark thickness was measured at a height of 1·4 m with increment hammers (Haglöf Sweden AB, Långsele, Sweden), which give accurate readings for bark less than approximately 15 mm thick (Paine et al. 2010).”
The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly (2014, background): “Bark thickness is another important stem trait important to defence against fire, pests and pathogens (Paine et al. 2010).”
Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits (2015, background): “Bark thickness, as a functional trait, is typically associated with resistance to disturbances such as fire (Paine et al. 2010), but thick bark has evolved in some New Zealand tree species despite the lack of frequent fires in their evolutionary history (Lawes et al. 2014; Perry, Wilmshurst &…”
Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests (2011, methodology): “One of the nine traits, trunk bark thickness, varied strongly with individual stature (Paine et al. 2010), and so we corrected for this correlation in the species-level dataset by substituting the residuals from a linear regression of bark thickness against individual stature.”