Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery
2022
Qiu, Tong | Andrus, Robert | Aravena, Marie-Claire | Ascoli, Davide | Bergeron, Yves | Berretti, Roberta | Berveiller, Daniel | Bogdziewicz, Michal | Boivin, Thomas | Bonal, Raul | Bragg, Don | Caignard, Thomas | Calama, Rafael | Camarero, J. Julio | Chang-Yang, Chia-Hao | Cleavitt, Natalie | Courbaud, Benoit | Courbet, Francois | Curt, Thomas | Das, Adrian | Daskalakou, Evangelia | Davi, Hendrik | Delpierre, Nicolas | Delzon, Sylvain | Dietze, Michael | Calderon, Sergio Donoso | Dormont, Laurent | Espelta, Josep | Fahey, Timothy | Farfan-Rios, William | Gehring, Catherine | Gilbert, Gregory | Gratzer, Georg | Greenberg, Cathryn | Guo, Qinfeng | Hacket-Pain, Andrew | Hampe, Arndt | Han, Qingmin | Hille Ris Lambers, Janneke | Hoshizaki, Kazuhiko | Ibanez, Ines | Johnstone, Jill | Journé, Valentin | Kabeya, Daisuke | Kilner, Christopher | Kitzberger, Thomas | Knops, Johannes | Kobe, Richard | Kunstler, Georges | Lageard, Jonathan | Lamontagne, Jalene | Ledwon, Mateusz | Lefèvre, Francois | Macias, Diana | Mcintire, Eliot | Moore, Christopher | Moran, Emily | Motta, Renzo | Myers, Jonathan | Nagel, Thomas | Noguchi, Kyotaro | Ourcival, Jean-Marc | Parmenter, Robert | Pearse, Ian | Perez-Ramos, Ignacio | Piechnik, Lukasz | Poulsen, John | Poulton-Kamakura, Renata | Redmond, Miranda | Reid, Chantal | Rodman, Kyle | Rodriguez-Sanchez, Francisco | Sanguinetti, Javier | Scher, C. Lane | Schlesinger, William | Schmidt van Marle, Harald | Seget, Barbara | Sharma, Shubhi | Silman, Miles | Steele, Michael | Stephenson, Nathan | Straub, Jacob | Sun, I-Fang | Sutton, Samantha | Swenson, Jennifer | Swift, Margaret | Thomas, Peter | Uriarte, Maria | Vacchiano, Giorgio | Veblen, Thomas | Whipple, Amy | Whitham, Thomas | Wion, Andreas | Wright, Boyd | Wright, S. Joseph | Zhu, Kai | Zimmerman, Jess | Zlotin, Roman | Zywiec, Magdalena | Clark, James | Nicholas School of the Environment ; Duke University [Durham] | University of Colorado [Boulder] | Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] (UCHILE) | Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin (UNITO) | Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) | Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (ESE) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu = Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM) | Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes (URFM) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM) | USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station ; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés (BioGeCo) ; Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Centro de Investigacion Forestal (INIA-CIFOR) ; Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria = National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) | Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologìa = Pyrenean Institute of Ecology [Zaragoza] (IPE - CSIC) ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC) | National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) | Cornell University [New York] | Laboratoire des EcoSystèmes et des Sociétés en Montagne (UR LESSEM) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (Fédération OSUG)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) | Risques, Ecosystèmes, Vulnérabilité, Environnement, Résilience (RECOVER) ; Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | United States Geological Survey (USGS) | National Technical University of Athens [Athens] (NTUA) | Boston University [Boston] (BU) | Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) ; Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | Centre for Ecological Research and Applied Forestries = Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF) ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC) | Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL) | Northern Arizona University [Flagstaff] | University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz) ; University of California (UC) | Institute of Forest Ecology ; Universität für Bodenkultur Wien = University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences [Vienne, Autriche] (BOKU) | United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | University of Liverpool | Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich) | Akita University | University of Michigan [Dearborn] ; University of Michigan System | University of Alaska [Anchorage] | Universidad Nacional del Comahue [Neuquén] (UNCOMA) | Xi'an Jiaotong University (Xjtu) | Michigan State University [East Lansing] ; Michigan State University System | University of Manchester [Manchester] | DePaul University [Chicago] | Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences = Académie polonaise des sciences (PAN) | The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque] ; New Mexico Consortium (NMC) | Pacific Forestry Centre ; Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) | Colby College | University of California [Merced] (UC Merced) ; University of California (UC) | The project has been funded continuously since 1992 by NationalScience Foundation grants to J.S.C, most recently DEB-1754443, and by the BelmontForum (1854976), NASA (AIST16-0052, AIST18-0063), and the Programme d’Inves-tissement d’Avenir under project FORBIC (18-MPGA-0004)(Make Our Planet GreatAgain). Puerto Rico data were funded by NSF grants to M.U., most recently, DEB 0963447and LTREB 11222325. Data from the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Groupwere funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and NSF LTREB 1754647 toM.S. Additional funding to M.Z. came from the W.Szafer Institute of Botany of the PolishAcademy of Sciences and the Polish National Science Foundation (2019/33/B/NZ8/0134).M.B. was supported by the Polish National Science Centre grant no. 2019/35/D/NZ8/00050, and Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange Bekker programme PPN/BEK/2020/1/00009/U/00001. J.M.L. was supported by NSF grant DEB 1745496. Jerry Franklin’sdata remain accessible through NSF LTER DEB-1440409. USDA Forest Service and USGSresearch was funded by those agencies | ANR-17-MPGA-0014,PEGS,PErmafrost and Greenhouse gas dynamics in Siberia(2017) | ANR-18-MPGA-0004,FORBIC,Prévision du changement de la biodiversité(2018)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought, fire, and harvest. A synthesis of fecundity data from 714 species worldwide allowed us to examine hypotheses that are central to quantifying reproduction, a foundation for assessing fitness in forest trees. Four major findings emerged. First, seed production is not constrained by a strict trade-off between seed size and numbers. Instead, seed numbers vary over ten orders of magnitude, with species that invest in large seeds producing more seeds than expected from the 1:1 trade-off. Second, gymnosperms have lower seed production than angiosperms, potentially due to their extra investments in protective woody cones. Third, nutrient-demanding species, indicated by high foliar phosphorus concentrations, have low seed production. Finally, sensitivity of individual species to soil fertility varies widely, limiting the response of community seed production to fertility gradients. In combination, these findings can inform models of forest response that need to incorporate reproductive potential.
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