Climatic and edaphic controls over tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
19 03 2020
19 03 2020
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received:
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09
2018
accepted:
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03
2020
entrez:
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3
2020
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2020
medline:
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2020
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Résumé
Tropical rainforests harbor exceptionally high biodiversity and store large amounts of carbon in vegetation biomass. However, regional variation in plant species richness and vegetation carbon stock can be substantial, and may be related to the heterogeneity of topoedaphic properties. Therefore, aboveground vegetation carbon storage typically differs between geographic forest regions in association with the locally dominant plant functional group. A better understanding of the underlying factors controlling tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage could be critical for predicting tropical carbon sink strength in response to projected climate change. Based on regionally replicated 1-ha forest inventory plots established in a region of high geomorphological heterogeneity we investigated how climatic and edaphic factors affect tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage. Plant species richness (of all living stems >10 cm in diameter) ranged from 69 to 127 ha
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pubmed: 32193471
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-61868-5
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-61868-5
pmc: PMC7081197
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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eng
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