Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology

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Pos, Edwin ; de Souza Coelho, Luiz ; de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes ; Salomao, Rafael P. ; Amaral, Ieda Leao ; de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionizia ; Castilho, Carolina V. ; Phillips, Oliver L. ; Guevara, Juan Ernesto ; de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo ; Lopez, Dairon Cardenas ; Magnusson, William E. ; Wittmann, Florian ; Irume, Mariana Victoria ; Martins, Maria Pire ; Sabatier, Daniel ; da Silva Guimaraes, Jose Renan ; Molino, Jean-Francois ; Banki, Olaf S. ; Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez ; Pitman, Nigel C. A. ; Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo ; Ramos, Jose Ferreira ; Hawes, Joseph E. ; Almeida, Everton Jose ; Barbosa, Luciane Ferreira ; Cavalheiro, Larissa ; dos Santos, Marcia Cleia Vilela ; Luize, Bruno Garcia ; de Leao Novo, Evlyn Marcia Moraes ; Vargas, Percy Nunez ; Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire ; Venticinque, Eduardo Martins ; Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto ; Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa ; Terborgh, John ; Casula, Katia Regina ; Coronado, Euridice N. Honorio ; Montero, Juan Carlos ; Marimon, Beatriz S. ; Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur ; Feldpausch, Ted R. ; Duque, Alvaro ; Baraloto, Chris ; Arboleda, Nicolas Castano ; Engel, Julien ; Petronelli, Pasca ; Zartman, Charles Eugene ; Killeen, Timothy J. ; Vasquez, Rodolfo ; Mostacedo, Bonifacio ; Assis, Rafael L. ; Schongart, Jochen ; Castellanos, Hernan ; de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante ; Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni ; Andrade, Ana ; Camargo, Jose Luis ; Demarchi, Layon O. ; Laurance, William F. ; Laurance, Susan G. W. ; de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle ; Lopes, Maria Aparecida ; Magalhaes, Jose Leonardo Lima ; Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonca ; de Queiroz, Helder Lima ; Aymard, Gerardo A. C. ; Brienen, Roel ; Revilla, Juan David Cardenas ; Costa, Flavia R. C. ; Quaresma, Adriano ; Vieira, Ima Celia Guimaraes ; Cintra, Bruno Barcante Ladvocat ; Stevenson, Pablo R. ; Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira ; Duivenvoorden, Joost F. ; Mogollon, Hugo F. ; Ferreira, Leandro Valle ; Comiskey, James A. ; Draper, Freddie ; de Toledo, Jose Julio ; Damasco, Gabriel ; Davila, Nallarett ; Garcia-Villacorta, Roosevelt ; Lopes, Aline ; Vicentini, Alberto ; Noronha, Janaina Costa ; Barbosa, Flavia Rodrigues ; de Sa Carpanedo, Rainiellen ; Emilio, Thaise ; Levis, Carolina ; de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos ; Schietti, Juliana ; Souza, Priscila ; Alonso, Alfonso ; Dallmeier, Francisco ; Gomes, Vitor H. F. ; Lloyd, Jon ; Neill, David ; de Aguiar, Daniel Praia Portela ; Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro ; Arroyo, Luzmila ; Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes ; de Souza, Fernanda Coelho ; do Amaral, Dario Dantas ; Feeley, Kenneth J. ; Gribel, Rogerio ; Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti ; Barlow, Jos ; Berenguer, Erika ; Ferreira, Joice ; Fine, Paul V. A. ; Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro ; Jimenez, Eliana M. ; Licona, Juan Carlos ; Mora, Maria Cristina Penuela ; Peres, Carlos A. ; Zegarra, Boris Eduardo Villa ; Ceron, Carlos ; Henkel, Terry W. ; Maas, Paul ; Silveira, Marcos ; Stropp, Juliana ; Thomas-Caesar, Raquel ; Baker, Tim R. ; Daly, Doug ; Dexter, Kyle G. ; Householder, John Ethan ; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau ; Pennington, Toby ; Paredes, Marcos Rios ; Fuentes, Alfredo ; Pena, Jose Luis Marcelo ; Silman, Miles R. ; Tello, J. Sebastian ; Chave, Jerome ; Valverde, Fernando Cornejo ; Di Fiore, Anthony ; Hilario, Renato Richard ; Phillips, Juan Fernando ; Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo ; van Andel, Tinde R. ; von Hildebrand, Patricio ; Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques ; de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos ; Doza, Hilda Paulette Davila ; Fonty, Emile ; Gomez, Ricardo Zarate ; Gonzales, Therany ; Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo ; Guillaumet, Jean-Louis ; Hoffman, Bruce ; Junqueira, Andre Braga ; Malhi, Yadvinder ; de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula ; Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite ; Prieto, Adriana ; Rudas, Agustin ; Ruschel, Ademir R. ; Silva, Natalino ; Vela, Cesar I. A. ; Vos, Vincent Antoine ; Zent, Eglee L. ; Zent, Stanford ; Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss ; Cano, Angela ; Correa, Diego F. ; Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa ; Flores, Bernardo Monteiro ; Holmgren, Milena ; Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade ; Oliveira, Alexandre A. ; Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma ; Rocha, Maira ; Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni ; Sierra, Rodrigo ; Tirado, Milton ; Umana, Maria Natalia ; van der Heijden, Geertje ; Torre, Emilio Vilanova ; Vriesendorp, Corine ; Wang, Ophelia ; Young, Kenneth R. ; Reategui, Manuel Augusto Ahuite ; Baider, Claudia ; Balslev, Henrik ; Cardenas, Sasha ; Casas, Luisa Fernanda ; Farfan-Rios, William ; Ferreira, Cid ; Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo ; Mendoza, Casimiro ; Mesones, Italo ; Torres-Lezama, Armando ; Giraldo, Ligia Estela Urrego ; Villarroel, Daniel ; Zagt, Roderick ; Alexiades, Miguel N. ; Garcia-Cabrera, Karina ; Hernandez, Lione ; Milliken, William ; Cuenca, Walter Palacios ; Pansini, Susamar ; Pauletto, Daniela ; Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez ; Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe ; Sandoval, Elvis H. Valderrama ; Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela ; Boenisch, Gerhard ; Kattge, Jens ; Kraft, Nathan ; Levesley, Aurora ; Melgaco, Karina ; Pickavance, Georgia ; Poorter, Lourens ; ter Steege, Hans

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS; v. 13, n. 1, p. 11-pg., 2023-02-17.

Abstract

In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. The constrained maximization of information entropy provides a framework for the understanding of such complex systems dynamics by a quantitative analysis of important constraints via predictions using least biased probability distributions. We apply it to over two thousand hectares of Amazonian tree inventories across seven forest types and thirteen functional traits, representing major global axes of plant strategies. Results show that constraints formed by regional relative abundances of genera explain eight times more of local relative abundances than constraints based on directional selection for specific functional traits, although the latter does show clear signals of environmental dependency. These results provide a quantitative insight by inference from large-scale data using cross-disciplinary methods, furthering our understanding of ecological dynamics. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/25086-3 - Exploring the risk of savanna expansion in Tropical South America under climate change
• Grantee: Bernardo Monteiro Flores
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral