The pace of life for forest trees

Lalasia Bialic-Murphy¹, Robert M McElderry^{1

2}, Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert³, Johan van den Hoogen¹, Pieter A Zuidema⁴, Oliver L Phillips⁵, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira⁶, Patricia Alvarez Loayza⁷, Esteban Alvarez-Davila⁸, Luciana F Alves⁹, Vinícius Andrade Maia¹⁰, Simone Aparecida Vieira¹¹, Lidiany Carolina Arantes da Silva¹⁰, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami¹², Eric Arets¹³, Julen Astigarraga¹⁴, Fabrício Baccaro¹⁵, Timothy Baker⁵, Olaf Banki¹⁶, Jorcely Barroso¹⁷, Lilian Blanc¹⁸, Damien Bonal¹⁹, Frans Bongers²⁰, Kauane Maiara Bordin²¹, Roel Brienen⁵, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros²², José Luís Camargo²³, Felipe Carvalho Araújo¹⁰, Carolina V Castilho²⁴, Wendeson Castro²⁵, Victor Chama Moscoso²⁶, James Comiskey^{27

28}, Flávia Costa²⁹, Sandra Cristina Müller²¹, Everton Cristo de Almeida³⁰, Antonio Carlos Lôla da Costa³¹, Vitor de Andrade Kamimura³², Fernanda de Oliveira¹⁰, Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel^{33

34}, Géraldine Derroire³⁵, Kyle Dexter³⁶, Anthony Di Fiore^{37

38}, Louis Duchesne³⁹, Thaise Emílio⁴⁰, Camila Laís Farrapo¹⁰, Sophie Fauset⁴¹, Frederick C Draper⁴², Ted R Feldpausch⁴³, Rafael Flora Ramos⁴⁴, Valeria Forni Martins^{21

45}, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon²², Miguel Gama Reis¹⁰, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto⁴⁶, Bruno Herault¹⁸, Rafael Herrera⁴⁷, Eurídice Honorio Coronado⁴⁸, Robert Howe⁴⁹, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco⁵⁰, Walter Huaraca Huasco⁵¹, Katia Janaina Zanini²¹, Carlos Joly⁵², Timothy Killeen⁵³, Joice Klipel²¹, Susan G Laurance⁵⁴, William F Laurance⁵⁴, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes¹⁰, Wilmar Lopez Oviedo⁵⁵, William E Magnusson⁵⁶, Rubens Manoel Dos Santos¹⁰, Jose Luis Marcelo Peña⁵⁷, Karla Maria Pedra de Abreu⁵⁸, Beatriz Marimon⁶, Ben Hur Marimon Junior⁶, Karina Melgaço⁵, Omar Aurelio Melo Cruz⁵⁹, Casimiro Mendoza⁶⁰, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza⁶¹, Paulo S Morandi⁶, Fernanda Moreira Gianasi¹⁰, Henrique Nascimento⁶², Marcelo Nascimento⁶³, David Neill⁶⁴, Walter Palacios⁶⁵, Nadir C Pallqui Camacho⁵, Guido Pardo⁶⁶, R Toby Pennington^{67

68}, Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora⁶⁹, Nigel C A Pitman⁷⁰, Lourens Poorter⁴, Adriana Prieto Cruz⁷¹, Hirma Ramírez-Angulo⁷², Simone Matias Reis^{6

73}, Zorayda Restrepo Correa⁷⁴, Carlos Reynel Rodriguez⁷⁵, Agustín Rudas Lleras⁷⁶, Flavio A M Santos⁵², Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin⁷⁷, Juliana Schietti¹⁵, Gustavo Schwartz⁷⁸, Julio Serrano⁷⁹, André Maciel Silva-Sene¹⁰, Marcos Silveira⁸⁰, Juliana Stropp⁸¹, Hans Ter Steege^{16

82}, John Terborgh^{54

83}, Mathias W Tobler⁸⁴, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra⁵³, Peter J van der Meer⁸⁵, Geertje van der Heijden⁸⁶, Rodolfo Vasquez⁸⁷, Emilio Vilanova⁸⁸, Vincent Antoine Vos⁸⁹, Amy Wolf⁹⁰, Christopher W Woodall⁹¹, Verginia Wortel⁹², Joeri A Zwerts⁹³, Thomas A M Pugh^{3

94}, Thomas W Crowther¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
² Forest Health and Biotic Interactions, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
³ Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
⁵ School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁶ Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (Unemat) - Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Nova Xavantina-MT, Brazil.
⁷ Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
⁸ Escuela de Ciencias Agrícola, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia de Colombia, Colombia.
⁹ Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California' Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
¹⁰ Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brazil.
¹¹ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
¹² Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
¹³ Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
¹⁴ Universidad de Alcalá, Department of Life Sciences, Forest Ecology and Restoration Group (FORECO), Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
¹⁵ Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
¹⁶ Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
¹⁷ Laboratório de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus de Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil.
¹⁸ Forêts et Sociétés, Université Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.
¹⁹ Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR Silva, 54000 Nancy, France.
²⁰ Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
²¹ Plant Ecology Lab, Ecology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²² Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, Brazil.
²³ Biological Dynamics of Forest Project - National Institute for Amazonian Research (BDFFP-INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
²⁴ Embrapa Roraima, Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.
²⁵ Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.
²⁶ Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.
²⁷ Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA.
²⁸ Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20024, USA.
²⁹ Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, Brazil.
³⁰ Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas (IBEF), Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
³¹ Universidade Federal do Pará - Instituto de Geociências, Belém Pará, Brazil.
³² Instituto Tecnológico Vale (ITV), Belém, Pará, Brazil.
³³ Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru.
³⁴ Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru.
³⁵ Cirad, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane), Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana.
³⁶ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
³⁷ Primate Molecular Ecology and Evolution Laboratory and Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA.
³⁸ Tiputini Biodiversity Station, College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Cumbay, Ecuador.
³⁹ Direction de la Recherche Forestière, Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et des Forêts du Québec, Quebec City, QC G1P 3W8, Canada.
⁴⁰ Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (PNPD), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
⁴¹ School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
⁴² School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
⁴³ Geography, Faculty of Science, Environment and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁴⁴ Biology Institute, University of Campinas, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁴⁵ Department of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Education, Centre for Agrarian Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Araras, SP, Brazil.
⁴⁶ Federal University of Rondônia (Unir-Porto Velho, RO), Brazil.
⁴⁷ Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Miranda, Venezuela.
⁴⁸ School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
⁴⁹ Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA.
⁵⁰ Herbario "Alwyn Gentry" (HAG), Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Perú.
⁵¹ Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵² Plant Biology Department, Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁵³ Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
⁵⁴ Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
⁵⁵ Smurfit Kappa Colombia, Yumbo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
⁵⁶ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.
⁵⁷ Universidad Nacional de Jaén, Laboratory of Vascular Plants and ISV Herbarium, San Ignacio, Peru.
⁵⁸ Federal Institute of Espírito Santo, Campus de Alegre, Alegre, ES, Brazil.
⁵⁹ Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
⁶⁰ Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
⁶¹ Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Jardin Botanico de Missouri, Cusco, Peru.
⁶² Biodiversity Department, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.
⁶³ Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, CBB, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil.
⁶⁴ Universidad Estatal Amazonica, Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador.
⁶⁵ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶⁶ Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia.
⁶⁷ Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK.
⁶⁸ Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK.
⁶⁹ Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador.
⁷⁰ Collections, Conservation & Research, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
⁷¹ ONF Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷² Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, INDEFOR, Merida, Venezuela.
⁷³ Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.
⁷⁴ Servicios Ecosistémicos y Cambio Climático, Corporación COL-TREE, Medellin, Colombia.
⁷⁵ Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Lima, Peru.
⁷⁶ Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷⁷ School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, UK.
⁷⁸ Embrapa Eastern Amazon, 66095-903, Belém, PA, Brazil.
⁷⁹ Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela.
⁸⁰ Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Acre, Brazil.
⁸¹ Biogeography Department, Trier University, 54286 Trier, Germany.
⁸² Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁸³ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida-Gainesville, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
⁸⁴ San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Escondido, CA 92027, USA.
⁸⁵ Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences Velp, Netherlands.
⁸⁶ School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
⁸⁷ Jardín Botánico de Missouri (JBM), Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru.
⁸⁸ Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Bronx, NY 10460, USA.
⁸⁹ Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales de la Amazonía, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia.
⁹⁰ University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA.
⁹¹ US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Research and Development, Durham, NH 03824, USA.
⁹² Department of Forest Management, Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname, CELOS, Suriname.
⁹³ Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁹⁴ Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sweden.

PMID: 39361744
DOI: 10.1126/science.adk9616

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The pace of life for forest trees

Lalasia Bialic-Murphy et al. Science. 2024.

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. 2024 Oct 4;386(6717):92-98.

doi: 10.1126/science.adk9616. Epub 2024 Oct 3.

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
² Forest Health and Biotic Interactions, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
³ Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
⁵ School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁶ Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (Unemat) - Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Nova Xavantina-MT, Brazil.
⁷ Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
⁸ Escuela de Ciencias Agrícola, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia de Colombia, Colombia.
⁹ Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California' Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
¹⁰ Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brazil.
¹¹ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
¹² Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
¹³ Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
¹⁴ Universidad de Alcalá, Department of Life Sciences, Forest Ecology and Restoration Group (FORECO), Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
¹⁵ Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
¹⁶ Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
¹⁷ Laboratório de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus de Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil.
¹⁸ Forêts et Sociétés, Université Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.
¹⁹ Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR Silva, 54000 Nancy, France.
²⁰ Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
²¹ Plant Ecology Lab, Ecology Department, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²² Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, Brazil.
²³ Biological Dynamics of Forest Project - National Institute for Amazonian Research (BDFFP-INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
²⁴ Embrapa Roraima, Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.
²⁵ Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.
²⁶ Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.
²⁷ Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA.
²⁸ Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20024, USA.
²⁹ Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, Brazil.
³⁰ Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas (IBEF), Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
³¹ Universidade Federal do Pará - Instituto de Geociências, Belém Pará, Brazil.
³² Instituto Tecnológico Vale (ITV), Belém, Pará, Brazil.
³³ Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru.
³⁴ Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru.
³⁵ Cirad, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane), Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana.
³⁶ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
³⁷ Primate Molecular Ecology and Evolution Laboratory and Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA.
³⁸ Tiputini Biodiversity Station, College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Cumbay, Ecuador.
³⁹ Direction de la Recherche Forestière, Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et des Forêts du Québec, Quebec City, QC G1P 3W8, Canada.
⁴⁰ Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (PNPD), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.
⁴¹ School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
⁴² School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
⁴³ Geography, Faculty of Science, Environment and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁴⁴ Biology Institute, University of Campinas, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁴⁵ Department of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Education, Centre for Agrarian Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Araras, SP, Brazil.
⁴⁶ Federal University of Rondônia (Unir-Porto Velho, RO), Brazil.
⁴⁷ Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Miranda, Venezuela.
⁴⁸ School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
⁴⁹ Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA.
⁵⁰ Herbario "Alwyn Gentry" (HAG), Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Perú.
⁵¹ Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵² Plant Biology Department, Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁵³ Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
⁵⁴ Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.
⁵⁵ Smurfit Kappa Colombia, Yumbo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
⁵⁶ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.
⁵⁷ Universidad Nacional de Jaén, Laboratory of Vascular Plants and ISV Herbarium, San Ignacio, Peru.
⁵⁸ Federal Institute of Espírito Santo, Campus de Alegre, Alegre, ES, Brazil.
⁵⁹ Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
⁶⁰ Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
⁶¹ Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Jardin Botanico de Missouri, Cusco, Peru.
⁶² Biodiversity Department, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.
⁶³ Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, CBB, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil.
⁶⁴ Universidad Estatal Amazonica, Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador.
⁶⁵ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INABIO, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶⁶ Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia.
⁶⁷ Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK.
⁶⁸ Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK.
⁶⁹ Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador.
⁷⁰ Collections, Conservation & Research, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
⁷¹ ONF Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷² Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, INDEFOR, Merida, Venezuela.
⁷³ Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.
⁷⁴ Servicios Ecosistémicos y Cambio Climático, Corporación COL-TREE, Medellin, Colombia.
⁷⁵ Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Lima, Peru.
⁷⁶ Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷⁷ School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham, UK.
⁷⁸ Embrapa Eastern Amazon, 66095-903, Belém, PA, Brazil.
⁷⁹ Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela.
⁸⁰ Laboratório de Botânica e Ecologia Vegetal, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Acre, Brazil.
⁸¹ Biogeography Department, Trier University, 54286 Trier, Germany.
⁸² Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁸³ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida-Gainesville, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
⁸⁴ San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Escondido, CA 92027, USA.
⁸⁵ Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences Velp, Netherlands.
⁸⁶ School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
⁸⁷ Jardín Botánico de Missouri (JBM), Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru.
⁸⁸ Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Bronx, NY 10460, USA.
⁸⁹ Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales de la Amazonía, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia.
⁹⁰ University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA.
⁹¹ US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Research and Development, Durham, NH 03824, USA.
⁹² Department of Forest Management, Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname, CELOS, Suriname.
⁹³ Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁹⁴ Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Sweden.

PMID: 39361744
DOI: 10.1126/science.adk9616

Abstract

Tree growth and longevity trade-offs fundamentally shape the terrestrial carbon balance. Yet, we lack a unified understanding of how such trade-offs vary across the world's forests. By mapping life history traits for a wide range of species across the Americas, we reveal considerable variation in life expectancies from 10 centimeters in diameter (ranging from 1.3 to 3195 years) and show that the pace of life for trees can be accurately classified into four demographic functional types. We found emergent patterns in the strength of trade-offs between growth and longevity across a temperature gradient. Furthermore, we show that the diversity of life history traits varies predictably across forest biomes, giving rise to a positive relationship between trait diversity and productivity. Our pan-latitudinal assessment provides new insights into the demographic mechanisms that govern the carbon turnover rate across forest biomes.

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