Nature Communications (Nov 2020)
Climate reverses directionality in the richness–abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes
- Jaime Madrigal-González,
- Joaquín Calatayud,
- Juan A. Ballesteros-Cánovas,
- Adrián Escudero,
- Luis Cayuela,
- Marta Rueda,
- Paloma Ruiz-Benito,
- Asier Herrero,
- Cristina Aponte,
- Rodrigo Sagardia,
- Andrew J. Plumptre,
- Sylvain Dupire,
- Carlos I. Espinosa,
- Olga Tutubalina,
- Moe Myint,
- Luciano Pataro,
- Jerome López-Sáez,
- Manuel J. Macía,
- Meinrad Abegg,
- Miguel A. Zavala,
- Adolfo Quesada-Román,
- Mauricio Vega-Araya,
- Elena Golubeva,
- Yuliya Timokhina,
- Markus Stoffel
Affiliations
- Jaime Madrigal-González
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva
- Joaquín Calatayud
- Integrated Science Lab, Department of Physics, Umeå University
- Juan A. Ballesteros-Cánovas
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva
- Adrián Escudero
- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Luis Cayuela
- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Marta Rueda
- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC
- Paloma Ruiz-Benito
- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Asier Herrero
- Forest Ecology and Restoration, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá
- Cristina Aponte
- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
- Rodrigo Sagardia
- Instituto Forestal de Chile
- Andrew J. Plumptre
- KBA Secretariat for KBA Partnership
- Sylvain Dupire
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Inrae, LESSEM
- Carlos I. Espinosa
- EcoSs_Lab, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
- Olga Tutubalina
- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Moe Myint
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva
- Luciano Pataro
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Jerome López-Sáez
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva
- Manuel J. Macía
- Departamento de Biología (Botánica), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Meinrad Abegg
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL
- Miguel A. Zavala
- Forest Ecology and Restoration, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá
- Adolfo Quesada-Román
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva
- Mauricio Vega-Araya
- Instituto de Investigación y Servicios Forestales (INISEFOR), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
- Elena Golubeva
- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Yuliya Timokhina
- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Markus Stoffel
- Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19460-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Correlations between tree species diversity and tree abundance are well established, but the direction of the relationship is unresolved. Here the authors use path models to estimate plausible causal pathways in the diversity-abundance relationship across 23 global forests regions, finding a lack of general support for a positive diversity-abundance relationship, which is prevalent in the most productive lands on Earth only
