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Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa

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Sanchez©\Martinez P, Dexter KG, Draper FC, Baraloto C, Le?o do Amaral I, de Souza Coelho L, de Almeida Matos FD, de Andrade Lima Filho D, Salom?o RP, Wittmann F, Castilho CV, de Jesus Veiga Carim M, Guevara JE, Phillips OL & Freire Silva TS (2025) Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa. Functional Ecology, 39 (1), pp. 181-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14700

Abstract
Leaf and wood functional traits of trees are related to growth, reproduction, and survival, but the degree of phylogenetic conservatism in these relationships is largely unknown. In this study, we describe the variability of strategies involving leaf, wood and demographic characteristics for tree genera distributed across the Amazon Region, and quantify phylogenetic signal for the characteristics and their relationships. Leaf and wood traits are aligned with demographic variables along two main axes of variation. The first axis represents the coordination of leaf traits describing resource uptake and use, wood density, seed mass, and survival. The second axis represents the coordination between size and growth. Both axes show strong phylogenetic signal, suggesting a constrained evolution influenced by ancestral values, yet the second axis also has an additional, substantial portion of its variation that is driven by functional correlations unrelated to phylogeny, suggesting simultaneously higher evolutionary lability and coordination. Synthesis. Our results suggest that life history strategies of tropical trees are generally phylogenetically conserved, but that tree lineages may have some capability of responding to environmental changes by modulating their growth and size. Overall, we provide the largest-scale synopsis of functional characteristics of Amazonian trees, showing substantial nuance in the evolutionary patterns of individual characteristics and their relationships.

Keywords
ecophysiology; functional traits; life history; marcroecology; phylogenetic conservatism; tree physiology; tropical ecology

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Additional authors: William E. Magnusson, Daniel Sabatier, Juan David Cardenas Revilla, Jean-Fran?ois Molino, Mariana Vict¨®ria Irume, Maria Pires Martins, Jos¨¦ Renan da Silva Guimar?es, Jos¨¦ Ferreira Ramos, Olaf S. B¨¢nki, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Dairon C¨¢rdenas L¨®pez, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Layon O. Demarchi, Jochen Sch?ngart, Bruno Garcia Luize, Evlyn M¨¢rcia Moraes de Le?o Novo, Percy N¨²?ez Vargas, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Neidiane Farias Costa Reis, John Terborgh, Katia Regina Casula, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Montero, Fl¨¢via R. C. Costa, Ted R. Feldpausch, Adriano Costa Quaresma, Nicol¨¢s Casta?o Arboleda, Charles Eugene Zartman, Timothy J. Killeen, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Rodolfo Vasquez, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Rafael L. Assis, D¨¢rio Dantas do Amaral, Julien Engel, Hern¨¢n Castellanos, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Ana Andrade, Jos¨¦ Lu¨ªs Camargo, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Lorena Maniguaje Rinc¨®n, Juliana Schietti, Thaiane R. Sousa, Emanuelle de Sousa Farias, Maria Aparecida Lopes, Jos¨¦ Leonardo Lima Magalh?es, Henrique Eduardo Mendon?a Nascimento, Helder Lima de Queiroz, Gerardo Aymard, Roel Brienen, Pablo R. Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Bruno Bar?ante Ladvocat Cintra, Tim R. Baker, Yuri Oliveira Feitosa, Hugo F. Mogoll¨®n, Carlos A. Peres, Miles R. Silman, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Jos¨¦ Rafael Lozada, James A. Comiskey, Jos¨¦ Julio de Toledo, Gabriel Damasco, N¨¢llarett D¨¢vila, Roosevelt Garc¨ªa-Villacorta, Aline Lopes, Alberto Vicentini, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Francisco Dallmeier, Vitor H. F. Gomes, David Neill, Maria Cristina Pe?uela Mora, Jana¨ªna Costa Noronha, Daniel P. P. de Aguiar, Fl¨¢via Rodrigues Barbosa, Yennie K. Bredin, Rainiellen de S¨¢ Carpanedo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kenneth J. Feeley, Rogerio Gribel, Torbj?rn Haugaasen, Joseph E. Hawes, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, John J. Pipoly III, Marcos R¨ªos Paredes, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Jos Barlow, Erika Berenguer, Izaias Brasil da Silva, Maria Julia Ferreira, Joice Ferreira, Paul V. A. Fine, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Carolina Levis, Juan Carlos Licona, Boris Eduardo Villa Zegarra, Vincent Antoine Vos, Carlos Cer¨®n, Fl¨¢via Machado Durgante, ?mile Fonty, Terry W. Henkel, John Ethan Householder, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Raquel Thomas, Doug Daly, William Milliken, Guido Pardo Molina, Toby Pennington, Ima C¨¦lia Guimar?es Vieira, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Wegliane Campelo, Alfredo Fuentes, Bente Klitgaard, Jos¨¦ Luis Marcelo Pena, J. Sebasti¨¢n Tello, Corine Vriesendorp, Jerome Chave, Anthony Di Fiore, Renato Richard Hil¨¢rio, Luciana de Oliveira Pereira, Juan Fernando Phillips, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, Tinde R. van Andel, Patricio von Hildebrand, William Balee, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates, Hilda Paulette D¨¢vila Doza, Ricardo Z¨¢rate G¨®mez, Therany Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo Gonzales, Bruce Hoffman, Andr¨¦ Braga Junqueira, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Linder Felipe Mozombite Pinto, Adriana Prieto, Agust¨ªn Rudas, Ademir R. Ruschel, Natalino Silva, C¨¦sar I. A. Vela, Stanford Zent, Egle¨¦ L. Zent, Angela Cano, Yrma Andreina Carrero M¨¢rquez, Diego F. Correa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Bernardo Monteiro Flores, David Galbraith, Milena Holmgren, Michelle Kalamandeen, Guilherme Lobo, Luis Torres Montenegro, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Maihyra Marina Pombo, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Maira Rocha, Veridiana Vizoni Scudeller, Maria Natalia Uma?a, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Cl¨¢udia Baider, Henrik Balslev, Sasha C¨¢rdenas, Luisa Fernanda Casas, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Germaine Alexander Parada, Armando Torres-Lezama, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N. Alexiades, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Riley P. Fortier, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Lionel Hernandez, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, Elvis H. Valderrama Sandoval, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Masha van der Sande, Lourens Poorter, Hans ter Steege

Journal
Functional Ecology: Volume 39, Issue 1

StatusPublished
Publication date31/01/2025
Publication date online30/11/2024
Date accepted by journal24/09/2024
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PublisherWiley
ISSN0269-8463
eISSN1365-2435

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Dr Thiago Silva

Dr Thiago Silva

Senior Lecturer, Biological and Environmental Sciences

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