Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests

Stephan Kambach; Richard Condit; Salomón Aguilar; Helge Bruelheide; Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin; Chia Hao Chang-Yang; Yu Yun Chen; George Chuyong; Stuart J. Davies; Sisira Ediriweera; Corneille E.N. Ewango; Edwino S. Fernando; Nimal Gunatilleke; Savitri Gunatilleke; Stephen P. Hubbell; Akira Itoh; David Kenfack; Somboon Kiratiprayoon; Yi Ching Lin; Jean Remy Makana; Mohizah Bt Mohamad; Nantachai Pongpattananurak; Rolando Pérez; Lillian Jennifer V. Rodriguez; I. Fang Sun; Sylvester Tan; Duncan Thomas; Jill Thompson; Maria Uriarte; Renato Valencia; Christian Wirth; S. Joseph Wright; Shu Hui Wu; Takuo Yamakura; Tze Leong Yao; Jess Zimmerman; Nadja Rüger

doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13901

Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests

Stephan Kambach^*, Richard Condit, Salomón Aguilar, Helge Bruelheide, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Chia Hao Chang-Yang, Yu Yun Chen, George Chuyong, Stuart J. Davies, Sisira Ediriweera, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Edwino S. Fernando, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Stephen P. Hubbell, Akira Itoh, David Kenfack, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Yi Ching Lin, Jean Remy MakanaMohizah Bt Mohamad, Nantachai Pongpattananurak, Rolando Pérez, Lillian Jennifer V. Rodriguez, I. Fang Sun, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Christian Wirth, S. Joseph Wright, Shu Hui Wu, Takuo Yamakura, Tze Leong Yao, Jess Zimmerman, Nadja Rüger

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Abstract

Organisms of all species must balance their allocation to growth, survival and recruitment. Among tree species, evolution has resulted in different life-history strategies for partitioning resources to these key demographic processes. Life-history strategies in tropical forests have often been shown to align along a trade-off between fast growth and high survival, that is, the well-known fast–slow continuum. In addition, an orthogonal trade-off has been proposed between tall stature—resulting from fast growth and high survival—and recruitment success, that is, a stature−recruitment trade-off. However, it is not clear whether these two independent dimensions of life-history variation structure tropical forests worldwide. We used data from 13 large-scale and long-term tropical forest monitoring plots in three continents to explore the principal trade-offs in annual growth, survival and recruitment as well as tree stature. These forests included relatively undisturbed forests as well as typhoon-disturbed forests. Life-history variation in 12 forests was structured by two orthogonal trade-offs, the growth−survival trade-off and the stature−recruitment trade-off. Pairwise Procrustes analysis revealed a high similarity of demographic relationships among forests. The small deviations were related to differences between African and Asian plots. Synthesis. The fast–slow continuum and tree stature are two independent dimensions structuring many, but not all tropical tree communities. Our discovery of the consistency of demographic trade-offs and life-history strategies across different forest types from three continents substantially improves our ability to predict tropical forest dynamics worldwide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1485-1496
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Ecology
Volume	110
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13901
State	Published - 30 Apr 2022

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© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.

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This work was supported by Vedurfelagid, Rannis and Rannsoknastofa i vedurfraedi. J.K. and P.B. have been partly financed by the Polish National Centre for Research and Development within the framework of the MSINiN project (contract number: BIOSTRATEG3/343547/8/NCBR/2017). We are indebted to all the people involved in the establishment and ongoing measurement at the ForestGEO research sites. The site-specific acknowledgements are listed in Table S2. This project and the work of S.Ka. were funded by iDiv-Flexpool—the internal funding mechanism of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, a research centre of the German Research Foundation (DFG—FZT 118). S.Ka. acknowledges the support of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to attend the ForestGEO analytical workshop in 2018 and 2019. N.R. was funded by a research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (RU 1536/3-1). We would like to acknowledge the general support from the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Geographic Society (NGS) and the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation (CFHF).

Funders	Funder number
Food and Health Foundation
National Science Foundation
Conservation, Food and Health Foundation
National Geographic Society
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	DFG—FZT 118, RU 1536/3-1
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju	BIOSTRATEG3/343547/8/NCBR/2017
Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung Halle-Jena-Leipzig

Keywords

ForestGeo
PCA
demographic rates
demographic trade-offs
growth
life-history strategies
mortality
recruitment
size
stature
survival
tropical forests

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Kambach, S., Condit, R., Aguilar, S., Bruelheide, H., Bunyavejchewin, S., Chang-Yang, C. H., Chen, Y. Y., Chuyong, G., Davies, S. J., Ediriweera, S., Ewango, C. E. N., Fernando, E. S., Gunatilleke, N., Gunatilleke, S., Hubbell, S. P., Itoh, A., Kenfack, D., Kiratiprayoon, S., Lin, Y. C., ... Rüger, N. (2022). Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests. Journal of Ecology, 110(7), 1485-1496. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13901

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