The importance of hydraulic architecture to the distribution patterns of trees in a central Amazonian forest

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 215; no. 1; pp. 113 - 125
• Main Authors: Cosme, Luiza H. M., Schietti, Juliana, Costa, Flávia R. C., Oliveira, Rafael S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England New Phytologist Trust 01.07.2017; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Amazonia; Architecture; Area; Brazil; Climate; Climate change; Density; Distribution patterns; Ecological distribution; Ecosystem; Efficiency; environmental filters; Filters; Fluid filters; forests; functional trade‐offs; Gravity; Habitats; Height; Hydraulics; Hydrology; Internet; Investment; Investments; Leaf area; Leaves; Microenvironments; Microhabitat; Microhabitats; Partitioning; plant traits; Plateaus; Population Dynamics; prediction; Principal Component Analysis; Safety; sapwood; Species composition; species diversity; Species Specificity; Specific gravity; Tissue; topographical and hydrological conditions; Trees; Trees - anatomy & histology; Trees - metabolism; Trees - physiology; tropical forest; Valleys; Water - metabolism; Wood; wood anatomy; wood specific gravity; Xylem - anatomy & histology; Xylem - metabolism; Xylem - physiology; Amazonia; wood specific gravity; environmental filters; functional trade-offs; tropical forest; topographical and hydrological conditions; wood anatomy; plant traits

Species distributions and assemblage composition may be the result of trait selection through environmental filters. Here, we ask whether filtering of species at the local scale could be attributed to their hydraulic architectural traits, revealing the basis of hydrological microhabitat partitioning...