Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests

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Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such "monodominant" forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inventory plots from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing a simple defining metric of at least half of the trees ≥ 10 cm diameter belonging to one species, we found only a few occurrences of monodominance in Amazonia, and the phenomenon was not significantly linked to previously hypothesized life history traits such wood density, seed mass, ectomycorrhizal associations, or Rhizobium nodulation. In our analysis, coppicing (the formation of sprouts at the base of the tree or on roots) was the only trait significantly linked to monodominance. While at specific locales coppicing or ectomycorrhizal associations may confer a considerable advantage to a tree species and lead to its monodominance, very few species have these traits. Mining of the ATDN dataset suggests that monodominance is quite rare in Amazonia, and may be linked primarily to edaphic factors.

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Authors/Creators:	Ter Steege, H Henkel, TW Helal, N Marimon, BS Marimon-Junior, BH Huth, A Groeneveld, J Sabatier, D Coelho, LDS Filho, DDAL Salomão, RP Amaral, IL Matos, FDDA Castilho, CV Phillips, OL https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8993-6168 Guevara, JE Carim, MDJV Cárdenas López, D Magnusson, WE Wittmann, F Irume, MV Martins, MP Guimarães, JRDS Molino, J-F Bánki, OS Piedade, MTF Pitman, NCA Mendoza, AM Ramos, JF Luize, BG Moraes de Leão Novo, EM Núñez Vargas, P Silva, TSF Venticinque, EM Manzatto, AG Reis, NFC Terborgh, J Casula, KR Honorio Coronado, EN Montero, JC Feldpausch, TR Duque, A Costa, FRC Arboleda, NC Schöngart, J Killeen, TJ Vasquez, R Mostacedo, B Demarchi, LO Assis, RL Baraloto, C Engel, J Petronelli, P Castellanos, H de Medeiros, MB Quaresma, A Simon, MF Andrade, A Camargo, JL Laurance, SGW Laurance, WF Rincón, LM Schietti, J Sousa, TR de Sousa Farias, E Lopes, MA Magalhães, JLL Mendonça Nascimento, HE Lima de Queiroz, H Aymard C, GA Brienen, R Revilla, JDC Vieira, ICG Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, B Stevenson, PR Feitosa, YO Duivenvoorden, JF Mogollón, HF Araujo-Murakami, A Ferreira, LV Lozada, JR Comiskey, JA de Toledo, JJ Damasco, G Dávila, N Draper, F García-Villacorta, R Lopes, A Vicentini, A Alonso, A Dallmeier, F Gomes, VHF Lloyd, J Neill, D de Aguiar, DPP Arroyo, L Carvalho, FA Coelho De Souza, F do Amaral, DD Feeley, KJ Gribel, R Pansonato, MP Barlow, J Berenguer, E Ferreira, J Fine, PVA Guedes, MC Jimenez, EM Licona, JC Peñuela Mora, MC Villa, B Cerón, C Maas, P Silveira, M Stropp, J Thomas, R Baker, TR Daly, D Dexter, KG Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I Milliken, W Pennington, T Ríos Paredes, M Fuentes, A Klitgaard, B Pena, JLM Peres, CA Silman, MR Tello, JS Chave, J Cornejo Valverde, F Di Fiore, A Hilário, RR Phillips, JF Rivas-Torres, G van Andel, TR von Hildebrand, P Noronha, JC Barbosa, EM Barbosa, FR de Matos Bonates, LC Carpanedo, RDS Dávila Doza, HP Fonty, É GómeZárate Z, R Gonzales, T Gallardo Gonzales, GP Hoffman, B Junqueira, AB Malhi, Y Miranda, IPDA Pinto, LFM Prieto, A Rodrigues, DDJ Rudas, A Ruschel, AR Silva, N Vela, CIA Vos, VA Zent, EL Zent, S Weiss Albuquerque, B Cano, A Carrero Márquez, YA Correa, DF Costa, JBP Flores, BM Galbraith, D Holmgren, M Kalamandeen, M Nascimento, MT Oliveira, AA Ramirez-Angulo, H Rocha, M Scudeller, VV Sierra, R Tirado, M Umaña Medina, MN van der Heijden, G Vilanova Torre, E Vriesendorp, C Wang, O Young, KR Ahuite Reategui, MA Baider, C Balslev, H Cárdenas, S Casas, LF Farfan-Rios, W Ferreira, C Linares-Palomino, R Mendoza, C Mesones, I Torres-Lezama, A Giraldo, LEU Villarroel, D Zagt, R Alexiades, MN de Oliveira, EA Garcia-Cabrera, K Hernandez, L Palacios Cuenca, W Pansini, S Pauletto, D Ramirez Arevalo, F Sampaio, AF Sandoval, EHV Valenzuela Gamarra, L Levesley, A Pickavance, G Melgaço, K
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Dates:	Accepted: 2 September 2019 Published: 25 September 2019
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Ecology & Global Change (Leeds)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation N/A NERC NE/F005806/1 EU - European Union 291585 (ERC 2011 ADG) NERC NE/N012542/1
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2019 11:23
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2021 16:34
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer Nature
Identification Number:	10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9
Related URLs:	PubMed URL
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:151597

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