【热带植被种属分布对土壤养分和季节性干旱的响应】Richard Condit Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht Delicia Pino Rolando Pérez and Benjamin L. Turner. Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees. PNAS 2013 vol. 110 no. 13 5064-5068
Abstract
Tropical forest vegetation is shaped by climate and by soil but understanding how the distributions of individual tree species respond to specific resources has been hindered by high diversity and consequent rarity. To study species over an entire community we surveyed trees and measured soil chemistry across climatic and geological gradients in central Panama and then used a unique hierarchical model of species occurrence as a function of rainfall and soil chemistry to circumvent analytical difficulties posed by rare species. The results are a quantitative assessment of the responses of 550 tree species to eight environmental factors providing a measure of the importance of each factor across the entire tree community. Dry-season intensity and soil phosphorus were the strongest predictors each affecting the distribution of more than half of the species. Although we anticipated clear-cut responses to dry-season intensity the finding that many species have pronounced associations with either high or low phosphorus reveals a previously unquantified role for this nutrient in limiting tropical tree distributions. The results provide the data necessary for understanding distributional limits of tree species and predicting future changes in forest composition.
【植物根部细胞的高分辨代谢图谱】Arieh Moussaieff Ilana Rogachev Leonid Brodsky
