The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates

Valentin Journé¹, Michał Bogdziewicz², Benoit Courbaud¹, Georges Kunstler¹, Tong Qiu³, Marie-Claire Aravena Acuña⁴, Davide Ascoli⁵, Yves Bergeron⁶, Daniel Berveiller⁷, Thomas Boivin⁸, Raul Bonal⁹, Thomas Caignard¹⁰, Maxime Cailleret¹¹, Rafael Calama¹², J Julio Camarero¹³, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang¹⁴, Jerome Chave¹⁵, Francesco Chianucci¹⁶, Thomas Curt¹⁷, Andrea Cutini¹⁸, Adrian Das¹⁹, Evangelia Daskalakou²⁰, Hendrik Davi⁸, Nicolas Delpierre⁷, Sylvain Delzon¹⁰, Michael Dietze²¹, Sergio Donoso Calderon²², Laurent Dormont²³, Josep Maria Espelta²⁴, William Farfan-Rios²⁵, Michael Fenner²⁶, Jerry Franklin²⁷, Catherine Gehring²⁸, Gregory Gilbert²⁹, Georg Gratzer³⁰, Cathryn H Greenberg³¹, Arthur Guignabert³², Qinfeng Guo³³, Andrew Hacket-Pain³⁴, Arndt Hampe³⁵, Qingmin Han³⁶, Mick E Hanley³⁷, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers³⁸, Jan Holík³⁹, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki⁴⁰, Ines Ibanez⁴¹, Jill F Johnstone⁴², Johannes M H Knops⁴³, Richard K Kobe⁴⁴, Hiroko Kurokawa⁴⁵, Jonathan Lageard⁴⁶, Jalene LaMontagne⁴⁷, Mateusz Ledwon⁴⁸, François Lefèvre⁸, Theodor Leininger⁴⁹, Jean-Marc Limousin⁵⁰, James Lutz⁵¹, Diana Macias⁵², Anders Mårell⁵³, Eliot McIntire⁵⁴, Emily V Moran⁵⁵, Renzo Motta⁵, Jonathan Myers⁵⁶, Thomas A Nagel⁵⁷, Shoji Naoe⁵⁸, Mahoko Noguchi⁵⁸, Julian Norghauer⁵⁹, Michio Oguro⁴⁵, Jean-Marc Ourcival⁵⁰, Robert Parmenter⁶⁰, Ian Pearse⁶¹, Ignacio M Pérez-Ramos⁶², Łukasz Piechnik⁶³, Tomasz Podgórski⁶⁴, John Poulsen⁶⁵, Miranda D Redmond⁶⁶, Chantal D Reid⁶⁷, Pavel Samonil³⁹, C Lane Scher⁶⁷, William H Schlesinger⁶⁷, Barbara Seget⁶³, Shubhi Sharma⁶⁸, Mitsue Shibata⁴⁵, Miles Silman⁶⁹, Michael Steele⁷⁰, Nathan Stephenson¹⁹, Jacob Straub⁷¹, Samantha Sutton⁶⁷, Jennifer J Swenson⁷², Margaret Swift⁶⁷, Peter A Thomas⁷³, Maria Uriarte⁷⁴, Giorgio Vacchiano⁷⁵, Amy Whipple⁷⁶, Thomas Whitham⁷⁶, S Joseph Wright⁷⁷, Kai Zhu⁴¹, Jess Zimmerman⁷⁸, Magdalena Żywiec⁶³, James S Clark^{1

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¹ Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire EcoSystemes et Societes En Montagne (LESSEM), Grenoble, France.
² Forest Biology Center, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
³ Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), B. Houssay 200 (9410), Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
⁵ Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Turin, Italy.
⁶ Forest Research Institute, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.
⁷ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
⁸ Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Ecologie des Forets Mediterranennes, Avignon, France.
⁹ Universite Bordeaux, Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), biodiversity, Genes, and Communities (BIOGECO), Pessac, France.
¹⁰ Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹¹ INRAE, Aix-Marseille University, UMR RECOVER, Aix-En-Provence, France.
¹² ICIFOR (Forest Research Institute), INIA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
¹³ Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.
¹⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
¹⁵ Unité Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France.
¹⁶ CREA-Research Ventre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy.
¹⁷ Aix Marseille Universite, Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Aix-en-Provence, France.
¹⁸ Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy.
¹⁹ USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Three Rivers, California, USA.
²⁰ Institute of Mediterranean and Forest Ecosystems, Hellenic Agricultural Organization, Athens, Greece.
²¹ Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
²² Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (FCFCN), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
²³ Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, France.
²⁴ Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain.
²⁵ Biology Department, Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA.
²⁶ Biology Department, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
²⁷ Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
²⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Adaptive Western Landscapes, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
²⁹ Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
³⁰ Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
³¹ Bent Creek Experimental Forest, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
³² INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, UMR 1391 ISPA, Villenave d'Ornon, France.
³³ Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³⁴ Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
³⁵ BIOGECO, INRAE, University of Bordeaux, Cestas, France.
³⁶ Department of Plant Ecology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Japan.
³⁷ School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
³⁸ Plant Ecology, Institute of Integrative Biology, D-USYS, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
³⁹ Department of Forest Ecology, Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴⁰ Department of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan.
⁴¹ School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁴² Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.
⁴³ Health and Environmental Sciences Department, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.
⁴⁴ Department of Plant Biology, Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Forest Vegetation, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
⁴⁶ Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴⁸ Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.
⁴⁹ USDA, Forest Service, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA.
⁵⁰ CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
⁵¹ Department of Wildland Resources, and The Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.
⁵² Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
⁵³ INRAE, UR EFNO, Nogent-Sur-Vernisson, France.
⁵⁴ Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵⁵ School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, California, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
⁵⁷ Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁵⁸ Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Iwate, Japan.
⁵⁹ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁶⁰ Valles Caldera National Preserve, National Park Service, Jemez Springs, Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA.
⁶¹ Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
⁶² Inst. de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IRNAS-CSIC), Andalucia, Spain.
⁶³ W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.
⁶⁴ Department of GameManagement and Wildlife Biology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁶⁵ The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁶⁷ Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁶⁸ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁶⁹ Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
⁷⁰ Department of Biology, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁷¹ Department of Environmental Science and Ecology, State University of New York-Brockport, Brockport, New York, USA.
⁷² Data Science, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
⁷³ School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
⁷⁴ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
⁷⁵ Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences-Production, Territory, Agroenergy (DISAA), University of Milan, Milano, Italy.
⁷⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
⁷⁷ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republic of Panama.
⁷⁸ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, USA.

PMID: 39354911
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14500

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The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates

Valentin Journé et al. Ecol Lett. 2024 Sep.

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. 2024 Sep;27(9):e14500.

doi: 10.1111/ele.14500.

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Affiliations

¹ Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire EcoSystemes et Societes En Montagne (LESSEM), Grenoble, France.
² Forest Biology Center, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
³ Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), B. Houssay 200 (9410), Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
⁵ Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Turin, Italy.
⁶ Forest Research Institute, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.
⁷ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
⁸ Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Ecologie des Forets Mediterranennes, Avignon, France.
⁹ Universite Bordeaux, Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), biodiversity, Genes, and Communities (BIOGECO), Pessac, France.
¹⁰ Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
¹¹ INRAE, Aix-Marseille University, UMR RECOVER, Aix-En-Provence, France.
¹² ICIFOR (Forest Research Institute), INIA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
¹³ Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.
¹⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
¹⁵ Unité Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France.
¹⁶ CREA-Research Ventre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy.
¹⁷ Aix Marseille Universite, Institut National de Recherche Pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Aix-en-Provence, France.
¹⁸ Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy.
¹⁹ USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Three Rivers, California, USA.
²⁰ Institute of Mediterranean and Forest Ecosystems, Hellenic Agricultural Organization, Athens, Greece.
²¹ Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
²² Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (FCFCN), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
²³ Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, France.
²⁴ Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain.
²⁵ Biology Department, Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA.
²⁶ Biology Department, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
²⁷ Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
²⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Adaptive Western Landscapes, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
²⁹ Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
³⁰ Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
³¹ Bent Creek Experimental Forest, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
³² INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, UMR 1391 ISPA, Villenave d'Ornon, France.
³³ Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³⁴ Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
³⁵ BIOGECO, INRAE, University of Bordeaux, Cestas, France.
³⁶ Department of Plant Ecology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Japan.
³⁷ School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
³⁸ Plant Ecology, Institute of Integrative Biology, D-USYS, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
³⁹ Department of Forest Ecology, Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴⁰ Department of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan.
⁴¹ School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁴² Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.
⁴³ Health and Environmental Sciences Department, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.
⁴⁴ Department of Plant Biology, Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Forest Vegetation, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
⁴⁶ Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴⁸ Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.
⁴⁹ USDA, Forest Service, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA.
⁵⁰ CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
⁵¹ Department of Wildland Resources, and The Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.
⁵² Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
⁵³ INRAE, UR EFNO, Nogent-Sur-Vernisson, France.
⁵⁴ Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵⁵ School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, California, USA.
⁵⁶ Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
⁵⁷ Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁵⁸ Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Iwate, Japan.
⁵⁹ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁶⁰ Valles Caldera National Preserve, National Park Service, Jemez Springs, Jemez Springs, New Mexico, USA.
⁶¹ Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
⁶² Inst. de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IRNAS-CSIC), Andalucia, Spain.
⁶³ W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.
⁶⁴ Department of GameManagement and Wildlife Biology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁶⁵ The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
⁶⁶ Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁶⁷ Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
⁶⁸ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁶⁹ Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
⁷⁰ Department of Biology, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁷¹ Department of Environmental Science and Ecology, State University of New York-Brockport, Brockport, New York, USA.
⁷² Data Science, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
⁷³ School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
⁷⁴ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
⁷⁵ Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences-Production, Territory, Agroenergy (DISAA), University of Milan, Milano, Italy.
⁷⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
⁷⁷ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republic of Panama.
⁷⁸ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, USA.

PMID: 39354911
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14500

Abstract

The fundamental trade-off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to begin reproduction at a larger size. Due to the prolonged time required to reach maturity, estimates of tree maturation size remain very rare and we lack a global view on the generality and the shape of this trade-off. Using seed production from five continents, we estimate tree maturation sizes for 486 tree species spanning tropical to boreal climates. Results show that a species' maturation size increases with maximum size, but in a non-proportional way: the largest species begin reproduction at smaller sizes than would be expected if maturation were simply proportional to maximum size. Furthermore, the decrease in relative maturation size is steepest in cold climates. These findings on maturation size drivers are key to accurately represent forests' responses to disturbance and climate change.

Keywords: allometry; life history; seed production; size; tree fecundity; tree maturation.

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