Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species.

By Jérôme Chave, H. Muller‐Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, H. ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb. Ecological Applications, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs (2014, neutral): “explained at the genus level (Chave et al., 2006).”
Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin (2009, background): “2c) and this effect has been suggested forρw (Wiemann and Williamson, 1989; Chave et al., 2006).”
Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests (2008, methodology): “Although this introduces some uncertainties to our analyses, the large majority of species-level wood density variation is determined at the genus-level and at the family-level (Chave et al. 2006), indicating that wood density is strongly conserved phylogenetically.”
Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities (2012, background): “Seed size (Moles et al. 2005) and wood density (Chave et al. 2006, Swenson and Enquist 2007), two traits especially involved in the success of this ecological syndrome, have consistently shown phylogenetic conservatism across a wide range of floras.”
Hybrid estimators for mean aboveground carbon per unit area (2016, methodology): “4 were compared to estimates obtained using the North American wood density means and standard deviations reported by Chave et al. (2009). For the non-specific allometric models and a common carbon content proportion, the difference in the means for the SRS estimators was 5.”
Xylem plasticity allows rapid hydraulic adjustment to annual climatic variability (2013, background): “…cost of efficiency, i.e., by reducing the proportion of hydraulically efficient conduits (Pittermann et al. 2006a, b); by reinforcing conduit wall (Chave et al. 2006; Martinez-Cabrera et al. 2009) or interconduit pits aperture (Choat et al. 2008; Hacke and Jansen 2009); by increasing redundancy…”
Error propagation in biomass estimation in tropical forests (2013, background): “WSG is defined here as the mass (in grams) of an oven-dried sample divided by its green volume (in cm(3)) divided by the density of water (in grams per cm(3)) (Chave et al. 2006; Williamson & Wiemann 2010).”
Measuring and modelling above-ground carbon and tree allometry along a tropical elevation gradient (2012, background): “Use of a community average WSG may therefore be sufficient in some cases (Brown, 1997; Fearnside, 1997; but see also Chave et al., 2006), potentially including the current study where the observed variation in WSG was low (0.62 [0.60–0.64], range 0.21–0.98).”
The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. (2009, background): “We know that important functional attributes of plants, such as leaf traits (Ackerly & Reich 1999) wood density (Chave et al. 2006; Swenson & Enquist 2007), allocation patterns (McCarthy et al. 2007) and element concentrations and their stoichiometric ratios (Kerkhoff et al. 2006), show evidence of…”
Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale (2014, background): “Wood density is a good indicator of whether a species allocates its growth into fast growth and early reproduction or slow growth and resistance to environmental hazards (Tilman, 1988; Chave et al., 2006).”
Spatial patterns of wood traits in China are controlled by phylogeny and the environment (2011, background): “The present study and previous studies have consistently shown that WD is phylogenetically conserved at different taxonomic levels (Baker et al., 2004; Chave et al., 2006; Preston et al., 2006; Slik, 2006; Swenson & Enquist, 2007).”