Authors
Masha T van der Sande, Lourens Poorter, Géraldine Derroire, Mario Marcos do Espirito Santo, Madelon Lohbeck, Sandra C Müller, Radika Bhaskar, Michiel van Breugel, Juan Manuel Dupuy‐Rada, Sandra M Durán, Catarina C Jakovac, Horacio Paz, Danaë MA Rozendaal, Pedro Brancalion, Dylan Craven, Francisco Mora Ardilla, Jarcilene S Almeida, Patricia Balvanera, Justin Becknell, Bryan Finegan, Ricardo Gomes César, José Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni, Deborah Kennard, Susan G Letcher, Erika Marín‐Spiotta, Rodrigo Muñoz, Casandra Reyes‐García, Lucía Sanaphre‐Villanueva, Luis P Utrera, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Francisco S Álvarez, Jose Luis Andrade, Felipe Arreola, Vanessa Boukili, George AL Cabral, Jerome Chave, Robin Chazdon, Gabriel Colletta, Maria das Dores Magalhães Veloso, Ben de Jong, Edwin Lebrija‐Trejos, Vanessa de Souza Moreno, Daisy H Dent, Saara DeWalt, Elisa Díaz García, Yule Roberta Ferreira Nunes, Vanessa Granda, Jefferson Hall, Rodney Lobo, Omar Lopez, Miguel Martínez Ramos, Jorge A Meave, Susana Ochoa‐Gaona, Everardo VSB Sampaio, Arturo Sanchez‐Azofeifa, Heitor Mancini Teixeira, Marisol Toledo, Maria Uriarte, S Joseph Wright, Kátia Zanini, Frans Bongers
Publication date
2024
Journal
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Pages
e13856
Description
Aim
Successional changes in functional diversity provide insights into community assembly by indicating how species are filtered into local communities based on their traits. Here, we assess successional changes in taxonomic and functional richness, evenness and redundancy along gradients of climate, soil pH and forest cover.
Location
Neotropics.
Time period
Last 0–100 years.
Major taxa studied
Trees.
Methods
We used 22 forest chronosequence studies and 676 plots across the Neotropics to analyse successional changes in Hill's taxonomic and functional diversity of trees, and how these successional changes vary with continental‐scale gradients in precipitation, soil pH and surrounding forest cover.
Results
Taxonomic and functional richness and functional redundancy increased, while taxonomic and functional evenness decreased over time. Functional richness and evenness changed strongly …
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