Title

Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests

Author

Catarina Jakovac

Jorge Arturo Meave del Castillo

Frans Bongers

Susan Letcher

JUAN MANUEL DUPUY RADA

Daniel Piotto

Danaë Rozendaal

Marielos Peña-Claros

Dylan Craven

Braulio Santos

Alexandre Siminski

Alfredo Fantini

Alice Cristina Rodrigues

Alma Hernandez-Jaramillo

Álvaro Idárraga-Piedrahita

André Junqueira

Angelica Almeyda Zambrano

Bernardus de Jong

Bruno X. Pinho

Bryan Finegan

Carolina Castellanos Castro

Daisy Christiane Zambiazi

Daisy Dent

Daniel Hernán Garcia-Villalobos

Deborah Kennard

Diego Delgado

Eben Broadbent

Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi

Eduardo A. Pérez-García

Edwin Lebrija-Trejos

Erika Berenguer

Erika Marin-Spiotta

Esteban Alvarez_Davila

EVERARDO VALADARES DE SÁ SAMPAIO

Felipe Melo

Fernando Elias

Filipe França

Florian Oberleitner

Francisco Mora Ardila

G. Bruce Williamson

Gabriel Colletta

George Cabral

Geraldine Derroire

Geraldo Fernandes

Hans van der Wal

Heitor Mancini Teixeira

Henricus F.M. Vester

Hernando Garcia

Ima Vieira

Jaider Jiménez-Montoya

Jarcilene Almeida Cortez

Jefferson Hall

Jerome Chave

Jess Zimmerman

Jhon Edison Nieto Vargas

Joice Ferreira

JORGE ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ VELAZQUEZ

Jorge Ruiz

Jos Barlow

Jose Aguilar Cano

JOSE LUIS HERNANDEZ STEFANONI

Julien Engel

Justin Becknell

Kátia Janaina Zanini

Madelon Lohbeck

Marcelo Tabarelli

Marco Antonio Romero Romero

Maria Uriarte

Maria das Dores Magalhães Veloso

Mário do Espírito Santo

Masha van der Sande

Michiel van Breugel

Miguel Martínez-Ramos

Naomi Schwartz

Natalia Norden

Nathalia Pérez-Cárdenas

Noel Antonio González_Valdivia

PASCAL PETRONELLI

Patricia Balvanera

Paulo Massoca

Pedro Brancalion

Pedro Manuel Villa

Peter Hietz

Rebecca Ostertag

René López Camacho

Ricardo Cesar

Rita Mesquita

Robin Chazdon

Rodrigo Muñoz

Saara DeWalt

Sandra Müller

Sandra M Duran

Sebastião Martins

Susana Ochoa-Gaona

Susana Rodriguez-Buritica

T. Mitchell Aide

Tony Vizcarra Bentos

Vanessa de Souza Moreno

Laura Vanessa Granda

William Thomas

Whendee Silver

YULE NUNES

Lourens Poorter

Access level

Open Access

Dataset reference

datasetDOI/DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn1767

Summary or description

Forests that regrow naturally on abandoned fields are important for restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services, but can they also preserve the distinct regional tree floras? Using the floristic composition of 1215 early successional forests (≤20 years) in 75 human-modified landscapes across the Neotropic realm, we identified 14 distinct floristic groups, with a between-group dissimilarity of 0.97. Floristic groups were associated with location, bioregions, soil pH, temperature seasonality, and water availability. Hence, there is large continental-scale variation in the species composition of early successional forests, which is mainly associated with biogeographic and environmental factors but not with human disturbance indicators. This floristic distinctiveness is partially driven by regionally restricted species belonging to widespread genera. Early secondary forests contribute therefore to restoring and conserving the distinctiveness of bioregions across the Neotropical realm, and forest restoration initiatives should use local species to assure that these distinct floras are maintained. Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved.

Publish date

2022

Publication type

Article

Publication version

Published Version

Format

application/pdf

Source

Science advances, 8(26), eabn1767, 2022.

Language

English

Relation

&

Poorter, L. (2022). Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests. Science advances, 8(26), eabn1767.

Citation suggestion

Jakovac, C. C., Meave, J. A., Bongers, F., Letcher, S. G., Dupuy, J. M., Piotto, D., ...

Source repository

Repositorio Institucional CICY

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