Browsing by Author "Lawes, Michael J"

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    An estimate of the number of tropical tree species.
    (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-06-16) Slik, JW Ferry; Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor; Aiba, Shin-Ichiro; Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia; Alves, Luciana F; Ashton, Peter; Balvanera, Patricia; Bastian, Meredith L; Bellingham, Peter J; van den Berg, Eduardo; Bernacci, Luis; da Conceição Bispo, Polyanna; Blanc, Lilian; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Boeckx, Pascal; Bongers, Frans; Boyle, Brad; Bradford, Matt; Brearley, Francis Q; Breuer-Ndoundou Hockemba, Mireille; Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh; Calderado Leal Matos, Darley; Castillo-Santiago, Miguel; Catharino, Eduardo LM; Chai, Shauna-Lee; Chen, Yukai; Colwell, Robert K; Chazdon, Robin L; Clark, Connie; Clark, David B; Clark, Deborah A; Culmsee, Heike; Damas, Kipiro; Dattaraja, Handanakere S; Dauby, Gilles; Davidar, Priya; DeWalt, Saara J; Doucet, Jean-Louis; Duque, Alvaro; Durigan, Giselda; Eichhorn, Karl AO; Eisenlohr, Pedro V; Eler, Eduardo; Ewango, Corneille; Farwig, Nina; Feeley, Kenneth J; Ferreira, Leandro; Field, Richard; de Oliveira Filho, Ary T; Fletcher, Christine; Forshed, Olle; Franco, Geraldo; Fredriksson, Gabriella; Gillespie, Thomas; Gillet, Jean-François; Amarnath, Giriraj; Griffith, Daniel M; Grogan, James; Gunatilleke, Nimal; Harris, David; Harrison, Rhett; Hector, Andy; Homeier, Jürgen; Imai, Nobuo; Itoh, Akira; Jansen, Patrick A; Joly, Carlos A; de Jong, Bernardus HJ; Kartawinata, Kuswata; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kelly, Daniel L; Kenfack, David; Kessler, Michael; Kitayama, Kanehiro; Kooyman, Robert; Larney, Eileen; Laumonier, Yves; Laurance, Susan; Laurance, William F; Lawes, Michael J; Amaral, Ieda Leao do; Letcher, Susan G; Lindsell, Jeremy; Lu, Xinghui; Mansor, Asyraf; Marjokorpi, Antti; Martin, Emanuel H; Meilby, Henrik; Melo, Felipe PL; Metcalfe, Daniel J; Medjibe, Vincent P; Metzger, Jean Paul; Millet, Jerome; Mohandass, D; Montero, Juan C; de Morisson Valeriano, Márcio; Mugerwa, Badru; Nagamasu, Hidetoshi; Nilus, Reuben; Ochoa-Gaona, Susana; Onrizal; Page, Navendu; Parolin, Pia; Parren, Marc; Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy; Paudel, Ekananda; Permana, Andrea; Piedade, Maria TF; Pitman, Nigel CA; Poorter, Lourens; Poulsen, Axel D; Poulsen, John; Powers, Jennifer; Prasad, Rama C; Puyravaud, Jean-Philippe; Razafimahaimodison, Jean-Claude; Reitsma, Jan; Dos Santos, João Roberto; Roberto Spironello, Wilson; Romero-Saltos, Hugo; Rovero, Francesco; Rozak, Andes Hamuraby; Ruokolainen, Kalle; Rutishauser, Ervan; Saiter, Felipe; Saner, Philippe; Santos, Braulio A; Santos, Fernanda; Sarker, Swapan K; Satdichanh, Manichanh; Schmitt, Christine B; Schöngart, Jochen; Schulze, Mark; Suganuma, Marcio S; Sheil, Douglas; da Silva Pinheiro, Eduardo; Sist, Plinio; Stevart, Tariq; Sukumar, Raman; Sun, I-Fang; Sunderland, Terry; Suresh, HS; Suzuki, Eizi; Tabarelli, Marcelo; Tang, Jangwei; Targhetta, Natália; Theilade, Ida; Thomas, Duncan W; Tchouto, Peguy; Hurtado, Johanna; Valencia, Renato; van Valkenburg, Johan LCH; Van Do, Tran; Vasquez, Rodolfo; Verbeeck, Hans; Adekunle, Victor; Vieira, Simone A; Webb, Campbell O; Whitfeld, Timothy; Wich, Serge A; Williams, John; Wittmann, Florian; Wöll, Hannsjoerg; Yang, Xiaobo; Adou Yao, C Yves; Yap, Sandra L; Yoneda, Tsuyoshi; Zahawi, Rakan A; Zakaria, Rahmad; Zang, Runguo; de Assis, Rafael L; Garcia Luize, Bruno; Venticinque, Eduardo M
    The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting of 657,630 trees belonging to 11,371 species, we use a fitted value of Fisher's alpha and an approximate pantropical stem total to estimate the minimum number of tropical forest tree species to fall between ∼ 40,000 and ∼ 53,000, i.e., at the high end of previous estimates. Contrary to common assumption, the Indo-Pacific region was found to be as species-rich as the Neotropics, with both regions having a minimum of ∼ 19,000-25,000 tree species. Continental Africa is relatively depauperate with a minimum of ∼ 4,500-6,000 tree species. Very few species are shared among the African, American, and the Indo-Pacific regions. We provide a methodological framework for estimating species richness in trees that may help refine species richness estimates of tree-dependent taxa.
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    Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients.
    (Nature ecology & evolution, 2022-08-08) Liang, Jingjing; Gamarra, Javier GP; Picard, Nicolas; Zhou, Mo; Pijanowski, Bryan; Jacobs, Douglass F; Reich, Peter B; Crowther, Thomas W; Nabuurs, Gert-Jan; de-Miguel, Sergio; Fang, Jingyun; Woodall, Christopher W; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Jucker, Tommaso; Bastin, Jean-Francois; Wiser, Susan K; Slik, Ferry; Hérault, Bruno; Alberti, Giorgio; Keppel, Gunnar; Hengeveld, Geerten M; Ibisch, Pierre L; Silva, Carlos A; Ter Steege, Hans; Peri, Pablo L; Coomes, David A; Searle, Eric B; von Gadow, Klaus; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Abbasi, Akane O; Abegg, Meinrad; Yao, Yves C Adou; Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús; Zambrano, Angelica M Almeyda; Altman, Jan; Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban; Álvarez-González, Juan Gabriel; Alves, Luciana F; Amani, Bienvenu HK; Amani, Christian A; Ammer, Christian; Ilondea, Bhely Angoboy; Antón-Fernández, Clara; Avitabile, Valerio; Aymard, Gerardo A; Azihou, Akomian F; Baard, Johan A; Baker, Timothy R; Balazy, Radomir; Bastian, Meredith L; Batumike, Rodrigue; Bauters, Marijn; Beeckman, Hans; Benu, Nithanel Mikael Hendrik; Bitariho, Robert; Boeckx, Pascal; Bogaert, Jan; Bongers, Frans; Bouriaud, Olivier; Brancalion, Pedro HS; Brandl, Susanne; Brearley, Francis Q; Briseno-Reyes, Jaime; Broadbent, Eben N; Bruelheide, Helge; Bulte, Erwin; Catlin, Ann Christine; Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto; César, Ricardo G; Chen, Han YH; Chisholm, Chelsea; Cienciala, Emil; Colletta, Gabriel D; Corral-Rivas, José Javier; Cuchietti, Anibal; Cuni-Sanchez, Aida; Dar, Javid A; Dayanandan, Selvadurai; de Haulleville, Thales; Decuyper, Mathieu; Delabye, Sylvain; Derroire, Géraldine; DeVries, Ben; Diisi, John; Do, Tran Van; Dolezal, Jiri; Dourdain, Aurélie; Durrheim, Graham P; Obiang, Nestor Laurier Engone; Ewango, Corneille EN; Eyre, Teresa J; Fayle, Tom M; Feunang, Lethicia Flavine N; Finér, Leena; Fischer, Markus; Fridman, Jonas; Frizzera, Lorenzo; de Gasper, André L; Gianelle, Damiano; Glick, Henry B; Gonzalez-Elizondo, Maria Socorro; Gorenstein, Lev; Habonayo, Richard; Hardy, Olivier J; Harris, David J; Hector, Andrew; Hemp, Andreas; Herold, Martin; Hillers, Annika; Hubau, Wannes; Ibanez, Thomas; Imai, Nobuo; Imani, Gerard; Jagodzinski, Andrzej M; Janecek, Stepan; Johannsen, Vivian Kvist; Joly, Carlos A; Jumbam, Blaise; Kabelong, Banoho LPR; Kahsay, Goytom Abraha; Karminov, Viktor; Kartawinata, Kuswata; Kassi, Justin N; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kennard, Deborah K; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Khan, Mohammed Latif; Kigomo, John N; Kim, Hyun Seok; Klauberg, Carine; Klomberg, Yannick; Korjus, Henn; Kothandaraman, Subashree; Kraxner, Florian; Kumar, Amit; Kuswandi, Relawan; Lang, Mait; Lawes, Michael J; Leite, Rodrigo V; Lentner, Geoffrey; Lewis, Simon L; Libalah, Moses B; Lisingo, Janvier; López-Serrano, Pablito Marcelo; Lu, Huicui; Lukina, Natalia V; Lykke, Anne Mette; Maicher, Vincent; Maitner, Brian S; Marcon, Eric; Marshall, Andrew R; Martin, Emanuel H; Martynenko, Olga; Mbayu, Faustin M; Mbuvi, Musingo TE; Meave, Jorge A; Merow, Cory; Miscicki, Stanislaw; Moreno, Vanessa S; Morera, Albert; Mukul, Sharif A; Müller, Jörg C; Murdjoko, Agustinus; Nava-Miranda, Maria Guadalupe; Ndive, Litonga Elias; Neldner, Victor J; Nevenic, Radovan V; Nforbelie, Louis N; Ngoh, Michael L; N'Guessan, Anny E; Ngugi, Michael R; Ngute, Alain SK; Njila, Emile Narcisse N; Nyako, Melanie C; Ochuodho, Thomas O; Oleksyn, Jacek; Paquette, Alain; Parfenova, Elena I; Park, Minjee; Parren, Marc; Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy; Pfautsch, Sebastian; Phillips, Oliver L; Piedade, Maria TF; Piotto, Daniel; Pollastrini, Martina; Poorter, Lourens; Poulsen, John R; Poulsen, Axel Dalberg; Pretzsch, Hans; Rodeghiero, Mirco; Rolim, Samir G; Rovero, Francesco; Rutishauser, Ervan; Sagheb-Talebi, Khosro; Saikia, Purabi; Sainge, Moses Nsanyi; Salas-Eljatib, Christian; Salis, Antonello; Schall, Peter; Schepaschenko, Dmitry; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Schmid, Bernhard; Schöngart, Jochen; Šebeň, Vladimír; Sellan, Giacomo; Selvi, Federico; Serra-Diaz, Josep M; Sheil, Douglas; Shvidenko, Anatoly Z; Sist, Plinio; Souza, Alexandre F; Stereńczak, Krzysztof J; Sullivan, Martin JP; Sundarapandian, Somaiah; Svoboda, Miroslav; Swaine, Mike D; Targhetta, Natalia; Tchebakova, Nadja; Trethowan, Liam A; Tropek, Robert; Mukendi, John Tshibamba; Umunay, Peter Mbanda; Usoltsev, Vladimir A; Vaglio Laurin, Gaia; Valentini, Riccardo; Valladares, Fernando; van der Plas, Fons; Vega-Nieva, Daniel José; Verbeeck, Hans; Viana, Helder; Vibrans, Alexander C; Vieira, Simone A; Vleminckx, Jason; Waite, Catherine E; Wang, Hua-Feng; Wasingya, Eric Katembo; Wekesa, Chemuku; Westerlund, Bertil; Wittmann, Florian; Wortel, Verginia; Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Tomasz; Zhang, Chunyu; Zhao, Xiuhai; Zhu, Jun; Zhu, Xiao; Zhu, Zhi-Xin; Zo-Bi, Irie C; Hui, Cang
    The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centuries to explain LDG, but rigorous tests of the drivers of LDGs have been limited by a lack of high-quality global species richness data. Here we produce a high-resolution (0.025° × 0.025°) map of local tree species richness using a global forest inventory database with individual tree information and local biophysical characteristics from ~1.3 million sample plots. We then quantify drivers of local tree species richness patterns across latitudes. Generally, annual mean temperature was a dominant predictor of tree species richness, which is most consistent with the metabolic theory of biodiversity (MTB). However, MTB underestimated LDG in the tropics, where high species richness was also moderated by topographic, soil and anthropogenic factors operating at local scales. Given that local landscape variables operate synergistically with bioclimatic factors in shaping the global LDG pattern, we suggest that MTB be extended to account for co-limitation by subordinate drivers.
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    Regional scientific research benefits threatened-species conservation
    (National Science Review, 2019-11-01) Hu, Yisi; Luo, Zhenhua; Chapman, Colin A; Pimm, Stuart L; Turvey, Samuel T; Lawes, Michael J; Peres, Carlos A; Lee, Tien Ming; Fan, Pengfei