Publications [#353332] of John W. Terborgh

Papers Published

1. Esquivel-Muelbert, A; Phillips, OL; Brienen, RJW; Fauset, S; Sullivan, MJP; Baker, TR; Chao, K-J; Feldpausch, TR; Gloor, E; Higuchi, N; Houwing-Duistermaat, J; Lloyd, J; Liu, H; Malhi, Y; Marimon, B; Marimon Junior, BH; Monteagudo-Mendoza, A; Poorter, L; Silveira, M; Torre, EV; Dávila, EA; Del Aguila Pasquel, J; Almeida, E; Loayza, PA; Andrade, A; Aragão, LEOC; Araujo-Murakami, A; Arets, E; Arroyo, L; Aymard C, GA; Baisie, M; Baraloto, C; Camargo, PB; Barroso, J; Blanc, L; Bonal, D; Bongers, F; Boot, R; Brown, F; Burban, B; Camargo, JL; Castro, W; Moscoso, VC; Chave, J; Comiskey, J; Valverde, FC; da Costa, AL; Cardozo, ND; Di Fiore, A; Dourdain, A; Erwin, T; Llampazo, GF; Vieira, ICG; Herrera, R; Honorio Coronado, E; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I; Jimenez-Rojas, E; Killeen, T; Laurance, S; Laurance, W; Levesley, A; Lewis, SL; Ladvocat, KLLM; Lopez-Gonzalez, G; Lovejoy, T; Meir, P; Mendoza, C; Morandi, P; Neill, D; Nogueira Lima, AJ; Vargas, PN; de Oliveira, EA; Camacho, NP; Pardo, G; Peacock, J; Peña-Claros, M; Peñuela-Mora, MC; Pickavance, G; Pipoly, J; Pitman, N; Prieto, A; Pugh, TAM; Quesada, C; Ramirez-Angulo, H; de Almeida Reis, SM; Rejou-Machain, M; Correa, ZR; Bayona, LR; Rudas, A; Salomão, R; Serrano, J; Espejo, JS; Silva, N; Singh, J; Stahl, C; Stropp, J; Swamy, V; Talbot, J; Ter Steege, H; Terborgh, J; Thomas, R; Toledo, M; Torres-Lezama, A; Gamarra, LV; van der Heijden, G; van der Meer, P; van der Hout, P; Martinez, RV; Vieira, SA; Cayo, JV; Vos, V; Zagt, R; Zuidema, P; Galbraith, D, Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests., Nature Communications, vol. 11 no. 1 (November, 2020), pp. 5515 [doi]
   (last updated on 2023/06/01)

   Abstract:
   The carbon sink capacity of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. However, the main drivers of tropical tree death remain largely unknown. Here we present a pan-Amazonian assessment of how and why trees die, analysing over 120,000 trees representing > 3800 species from 189 long-term RAINFOR forest plots. While tree mortality rates vary greatly Amazon-wide, on average trees are as likely to die standing as they are broken or uprooted-modes of death with different ecological consequences. Species-level growth rate is the single most important predictor of tree death in Amazonia, with faster-growing species being at higher risk. Within species, however, the slowest-growing trees are at greatest risk while the effect of tree size varies across the basin. In the driest Amazonian region species-level bioclimatic distributional patterns also predict the risk of death, suggesting that these forests are experiencing climatic conditions beyond their adaptative limits. These results provide not only a holistic pan-Amazonian picture of tree death but large-scale evidence for the overarching importance of the growth-survival trade-off in driving tropical tree mortality.