Wood density explains architectural differentiation across 145 co-occurring tropical tree species

By Y. Iida, Lourens Poorter, F. Sterck, A. Kassim, T. Kubo, M. Potts, T. Kohyama. 2012

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Bark traits and life-history strategies of tropical dry- and moist forest trees (2014, background): “Because of the mechanical rigidity conferred by high wood density, such trees have relatively slender stems (cf. Iida et al. 2012).”
Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees (2016, result): “We performed a second set of analyses to estimate the contributions of traits to explaining interspecific variation in demographic rates at particular sizes, and thereby to enable more direct comparisons of our results with earlier studies based on species-level estimates of vital rates (Poorter et ”
Simultaneous estimation of above- and below-ground biomass in tropical forests of Viet Nam (2017, background): “However, it is suspected that WD can act as a surrogate for broader groupings of structurally similar species (Chave et al., 2005, 2009; Iida et al., 2012; Nam et al., 2016; Huy et al., 2016a, 2016b).”
On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta‐analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted (2016, background): “It has been widely expected that species with low tissue construction cost will typically have fast growth rates, at least in favourable physical environments (e.g. Muller-Landau 2004; Poorter et al. 2008; Chave et al. 2009; Larjavaara & Muller-Landau 2010; Iida et al. 2012; Paine et al. 2015).”
Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size dependency (2014, background): “…species with high-density wood, probably because of a reduced mechanical or physiological stability at the tissue level (e.g. xylem) and a high maintenance (respiration) cost at the organ (e.g. stem) level (Muller-Landau 2004; Chave et al. 2009; Larjavaara & Muller-Landau 2010; Iida et al. 2012).”