Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests

By Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, L. Comita, Richard S. Condit, T. A. Kursar, M. Tyree, Benjamin L Turner, Stephen P. Hubbell. Nature, 2007

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Responses to drought stress in Prunus sargentii and Larix kaempferi seedlings using morphological and physiological parameters (2020, background): “Accordingly, advancing the understanding of the hydraulic traits of seedlings is important for improving afforestation programs (Engelbrecht et al., 2007; Anderegg, 2015).”
Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought‐ and shade‐tolerance (2009, background): “…given the fact that our field data and experimental data were strongly correlated (see Methods), this may also indicate that other factors than first year seedling morphology (e.g. seedling physiology, Engelbrecht et al. 2007) determine the assembly of dry and moist tropical forest communities.”
Impacts of human disturbance in tropical dry forests increase with soil moisture stress (2017, background): “Several studies (e.g. Slik 2004; Engelbrecht et al. 2007) have reported changes in species composition and diversity of tropical forests due to drought-induced differential mortality among tree species and size classes.”
Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges (2013, background): “Shifts in vegetation composition due to altered rainfall patterns, as found in tropical rainforest (Engelbrecht et al. 2007) and African savanna (Good & Caylor 2011), not only influence photosynthesis (Ward et al. 2009) and hence the exudation of photosynthate in the soil, but also the amount and…”
Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks (2008, background): “For example, recent changes in precipitation patterns have markedly affected vegetation composition in tropical rainforest (Engelbrecht et al., 2007) and African savanna (Sankaran et al.”
Climatic predictors of species distributions neglect biophysiologically meaningful variables (2019, background): “…is affected directly or indirectly by water sup‐ ply (Kramer & Boyer, 1995), and soil water conditions have been shown to be a primary determinant of small‐scale plant distributions (Engelbrecht et al., 2007; Tromp‐van Meerveld & McDonnell, 2006) and overall habitat type (Moeslund et al., 2013).”
Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 Neotropical tree species (2012, background): “gradients (ter Steege et al. 2006; Engelbrecht et al. 2007; Kraft, Valencia & Ackerly 2008).”
Integrating plant–soil interactions into global carbon cycle models (2009, background): “Third, work is needed to translate plant species differences in sensitivity to drought (e.g. Engelbrecht et al. 2007) into an optimal set of PFTs that best captures this variability.”
Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species (2008, background): “Similarly, in Panama the drought survival of seedlings was a good predictor of species position along local and regional gradients in water availability; species with a high drought survival were more abundant on the dry plateau, and in drier forests (Engelbrecht et al. 2005, 2007).”
Spatial distributions of tree species in a subtropical forest of China (2009, background): “The former is a cumulative distribution function of distances between pairs of points while the latter is the derivative of the former and thus is a probability density function (Stoyan and Penttinen 2000, Diggle 2003 ).”
The Ecological Niche: History and Recent Controversies (2015, background): “…of niche equivalence, the existence of differences in niches hardly seems debatable even to tenors of neutrality (e.g. Hubbell 2005 : 166; Engelbrecht et al. 2007 : 80) – on the other hand, they insist on the fact that not every difference in phenotypes or in distribution does refl ect a…”
Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought (2009, background): “Consequent impacts of regional tree die-off could include reduction in habitat for wildlife, enhanced opportunities for invasion by exotic species, formation of novel communities, alterations to the hydrologic cycle, and temporal disruptions in ecosystem goods and services (2, 3, 17, 18).”