Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests
Aim Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soil water on forest processes. Nevertheless, given th...
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| creator | Sousa, Thaiane R. Schietti, Juliana Ribeiro, Igor O. Emílio, Thaise Fernández, Rafael Herrera Steege, Hans Castilho, Carolina V. Esquivel‐Muelbert, Adriane Baker, Timothy Castro, Wendeson Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo Lima, Adriano José Nogueira Rudas, Agustín Araujo‐Murakami, Alejandro Andrade, Ana Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto Torres‐Lezama, Armando Marimon, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Burban, Benoit Ulft, Bert Herault, Bruno Quesada, Carlos Mendoza, Casimiro Bonal, Damien Galbraith, David Neill, David Oliveira, Edmar A. Hase, Eduardo Jimenez‐Rojas, Eliana Vilanova, Emilio Arets, Eric Berenguer, Erika Alvarez‐Davila, Esteban Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N. Almeida, Everton Coelho, Fernanda Elias, Fernando Brown, Foster Bongers, Frans Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez Lopez‐Gonzalez, Gabriela Aymard C., Gerardo A. Llampazo, Gerardo Flores Pardo, Guido Ramírez‐Angulo, Hirma Amaral, Iêda Leão Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, Isau Comiskey, James A. Espejo, Javier Silva Aguila‐Pasquel, Jhon Talbot, Joey Terborgh, John Ferreira, Joice Barroso, Jorcely G. Barlow, Jos Camargo, José Luís Stropp, Juliana Peacock, Julie Ferreira, Leandro V. Poorter, Lourens Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela Aragão, Luiz Arroyo, Luzmila Silveira, Marcos Peñuela‐Mora, Maria Cristina Vargas, Mario Percy Núñez Toledo, Marisol Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime Kalamandeen, Michelle Cardozo, Nállarett Dávila Silva, Natalino Pitman, Nigel Banki, Olaf Graça, Paulo M. L. A. Morandi, Paulo S. Hout, Peter Naisso, Pétrus Camargo, Plínio Barbosa Salomão, Rafael Thomas, Raquel Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi Costa Silva, Richarlly Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez Brienen, Roel Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto Lewis, Simon L. Vieira, Simone Aparecida Fauset, Sophie Laurance, Susan Feldpausch, Ted Erwin, Terry Killeen, Timothy Wortel, Verginia Moscoso, Victor Chama Vos, Vincent Laurance, William Malhi, Yadvinder Phillips, Oliver L. |
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Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soil water on forest processes. Nevertheless, given that plants take up water from the soil, the impacts of climatic water supply on plants are likely to be modulated by soil water conditions.
Location
Lowland Amazonian forests.
Time period
1971–2019.
Methods
We used 344 long‐term inventory plots distributed across Amazonia to analyse the effects of long‐term climatic and edaphic water supply on forest functioning. We modelled forest structure and dynamics as a function of climatic, soil‐water and edaphic properties.
Results
Water supplied by both precipitation and groundwater affects forest structure and dynamics, but in different ways. Forests with a shallow water table (depth |
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L. A. ; Morandi, Paulo S. ; Hout, Peter ; Naisso, Pétrus ; Camargo, Plínio Barbosa ; Salomão, Rafael ; Thomas, Raquel ; Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi ; Costa Silva, Richarlly ; Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez ; Brienen, Roel ; Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto ; Lewis, Simon L. ; Vieira, Simone Aparecida ; Fauset, Sophie ; Laurance, Susan ; Feldpausch, Ted ; Erwin, Terry ; Killeen, Timothy ; Wortel, Verginia ; Moscoso, Victor Chama ; Vos, Vincent ; Laurance, William ; Malhi, Yadvinder ; Phillips, Oliver L.</creatorcontrib><description>Aim
Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soil water on forest processes. Nevertheless, given that plants take up water from the soil, the impacts of climatic water supply on plants are likely to be modulated by soil water conditions.
Location
Lowland Amazonian forests.
Time period
1971–2019.
Methods
We used 344 long‐term inventory plots distributed across Amazonia to analyse the effects of long‐term climatic and edaphic water supply on forest functioning. We modelled forest structure and dynamics as a function of climatic, soil‐water and edaphic properties.
Results
Water supplied by both precipitation and groundwater affects forest structure and dynamics, but in different ways. Forests with a shallow water table (depth <5 m) had 18% less above‐ground woody productivity and 23% less biomass stock than forests with a deep water table. Forests in drier climates (maximum cumulative water deficit < −160 mm) had 21% less productivity and 24% less biomass than those in wetter climates. Productivity was affected by the interaction between climatic water deficit and water table depth. On average, in drier climates the forests with a shallow water table had lower productivity than those with a deep water table, with this difference decreasing within wet climates, where lower productivity was confined to a very shallow water table.
Main conclusions
We show that the two extremes of water availability (excess and deficit) both reduce productivity in Amazon upland (terra‐firme) forests. Biomass and productivity across Amazonia respond not simply to regional climate, but rather to its interaction with water table conditions, exhibiting high local differentiation. 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A.</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Morandi, Paulo S.</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Hout, Peter</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Naisso, Pétrus</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Camargo, Plínio Barbosa</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Salomão, Rafael</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Thomas, Raquel</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Costa Silva, Richarlly</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Brienen, Roel</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Lewis, Simon L.</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Vieira, Simone Aparecida</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Fauset, Sophie</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Laurance, Susan</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Feldpausch, Ted</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Erwin, Terry</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Killeen, Timothy</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Wortel, Verginia</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Moscoso, Victor Chama</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Vos, Vincent</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Laurance, William</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Malhi, Yadvinder</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Phillips, Oliver L.</creatorcontrib><title>Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests</title><title>Global ecology and biogeography</title><description>Aim
Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soil water on forest processes. Nevertheless, given that plants take up water from the soil, the impacts of climatic water supply on plants are likely to be modulated by soil water conditions.
Location
Lowland Amazonian forests.
Time period
1971–2019.
Methods
We used 344 long‐term inventory plots distributed across Amazonia to analyse the effects of long‐term climatic and edaphic water supply on forest functioning. We modelled forest structure and dynamics as a function of climatic, soil‐water and edaphic properties.
Results
Water supplied by both precipitation and groundwater affects forest structure and dynamics, but in different ways. Forests with a shallow water table (depth <5 m) had 18% less above‐ground woody productivity and 23% less biomass stock than forests with a deep water table. Forests in drier climates (maximum cumulative water deficit < −160 mm) had 21% less productivity and 24% less biomass than those in wetter climates. Productivity was affected by the interaction between climatic water deficit and water table depth. On average, in drier climates the forests with a shallow water table had lower productivity than those with a deep water table, with this difference decreasing within wet climates, where lower productivity was confined to a very shallow water table.
Main conclusions
We show that the two extremes of water availability (excess and deficit) both reduce productivity in Amazon upland (terra‐firme) forests. Biomass and productivity across Amazonia respond not simply to regional climate, but rather to its interaction with water table conditions, exhibiting high local differentiation. Our study disentangles the relative contribution of those factors, helping to improve understanding of the functioning of tropical ecosystems and how they are likely to respond to climate change.</description><subject>above‐ground biomass</subject><subject>Biodiversity</subject><subject>Biodiversity and Ecology</subject><subject>Biomass</subject><subject>Botanics</subject><subject>carbon</subject><subject>Climate change</subject><subject>Deep water</subject><subject>Ecology, environment</subject><subject>Ecosystems</subject><subject>Environmental Sciences</subject><subject>forest dynamics</subject><subject>Forests</subject><subject>Groundwater</subject><subject>Life Sciences</subject><subject>Moisture content</subject><subject>Productivity</subject><subject>seasonality</subject><subject>Shallow water</subject><subject>Soil conditions</subject><subject>Soil dynamics</subject><subject>Soil properties</subject><subject>Soil water</subject><subject>Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy</subject><subject>tropical ecology</subject><subject>Tropical forests</subject><subject>Vegetal Biology</subject><subject>Water availability</subject><subject>Water deficit</subject><subject>Water depth</subject><subject>Water supply</subject><subject>Water table</subject><subject>Water table depth</subject><subject>Wet climates</subject><issn>1466-822X</issn><issn>1466-8238</issn><issn>1466-822X</issn><fulltext>true</fulltext><rsrctype>article</rsrctype><creationdate>2022</creationdate><recordtype>article</recordtype><recordid>eNp1kE9PAjEQxRujiYge_AZNPHlY6H-6RyQIJhgvGr013W5XluxusV0g-OktrMGTc5nJ5Dcvbx4AtxgNcKzhp80GmHKKz0APMyESSag8P83k4xJchbBCCHHGRQ88v-vWetjqrLIwt-t2CWuXb6q4DXDt42jaclu2e6ibHGalq3UIUBvvYhvX-ts1pW5g4bwNbbgGF4Wugr357X3w9jh9ncyTxcvsaTJeJIYKgRMjM51yo40tEC2EJqOcI5ZzwwzNUmIkk5ZQgbi1zBBGSVaQVOLUcsFlkWe0D-473aWu1NqXtfZ75XSp5uOFOuwQHRGMpNjiyN51bPzmaxNdqpXb-CbaU0TIERdUpOJP8fiZt8VJFiN1SFbFZNUx2cgOO3ZXVnb_P6hm04fu4gfYaXnF</recordid><startdate>202208</startdate><enddate>202208</enddate><creator>Sousa, Thaiane R.</creator><creator>Schietti, Juliana</creator><creator>Ribeiro, Igor O.</creator><creator>Emílio, Thaise</creator><creator>Fernández, Rafael Herrera</creator><creator>Steege, Hans</creator><creator>Castilho, Carolina V.</creator><creator>Esquivel‐Muelbert, Adriane</creator><creator>Baker, Timothy</creator><creator>Castro, Wendeson</creator><creator>Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo</creator><creator>Lima, Adriano José Nogueira</creator><creator>Rudas, Agustín</creator><creator>Araujo‐Murakami, Alejandro</creator><creator>Andrade, Ana</creator><creator>Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto</creator><creator>Torres‐Lezama, Armando</creator><creator>Marimon, Beatriz</creator><creator>Marimon, Ben Hur</creator><creator>Burban, Benoit</creator><creator>Ulft, Bert</creator><creator>Herault, Bruno</creator><creator>Quesada, Carlos</creator><creator>Mendoza, Casimiro</creator><creator>Bonal, Damien</creator><creator>Galbraith, David</creator><creator>Neill, David</creator><creator>Oliveira, Edmar A.</creator><creator>Hase, Eduardo</creator><creator>Jimenez‐Rojas, Eliana</creator><creator>Vilanova, Emilio</creator><creator>Arets, Eric</creator><creator>Berenguer, Erika</creator><creator>Alvarez‐Davila, Esteban</creator><creator>Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N.</creator><creator>Almeida, Everton</creator><creator>Coelho, Fernanda</creator><creator>Elias, Fernando</creator><creator>Brown, Foster</creator><creator>Bongers, Frans</creator><creator>Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez</creator><creator>Lopez‐Gonzalez, Gabriela</creator><creator>Aymard C., Gerardo A.</creator><creator>Llampazo, Gerardo Flores</creator><creator>Pardo, Guido</creator><creator>Ramírez‐Angulo, Hirma</creator><creator>Amaral, Iêda Leão</creator><creator>Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães</creator><creator>Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco, Isau</creator><creator>Comiskey, James A.</creator><creator>Espejo, Javier Silva</creator><creator>Aguila‐Pasquel, Jhon</creator><creator>Talbot, Joey</creator><creator>Terborgh, John</creator><creator>Ferreira, Joice</creator><creator>Barroso, Jorcely G.</creator><creator>Barlow, Jos</creator><creator>Camargo, José Luís</creator><creator>Stropp, Juliana</creator><creator>Peacock, Julie</creator><creator>Ferreira, Leandro V.</creator><creator>Poorter, Lourens</creator><creator>Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela</creator><creator>Aragão, Luiz</creator><creator>Arroyo, Luzmila</creator><creator>Silveira, Marcos</creator><creator>Peñuela‐Mora, Maria Cristina</creator><creator>Vargas, Mario Percy Núñez</creator><creator>Toledo, Marisol</creator><creator>Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime</creator><creator>Kalamandeen, Michelle</creator><creator>Cardozo, Nállarett Dávila</creator><creator>Silva, Natalino</creator><creator>Pitman, Nigel</creator><creator>Banki, Olaf</creator><creator>Graça, Paulo M. 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A.</au><au>Morandi, Paulo S.</au><au>Hout, Peter</au><au>Naisso, Pétrus</au><au>Camargo, Plínio Barbosa</au><au>Salomão, Rafael</au><au>Thomas, Raquel</au><au>Umetsu, Ricardo Keichi</au><au>Costa Silva, Richarlly</au><au>Martinez, Rodolfo Vasquez</au><au>Brienen, Roel</au><au>Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto</au><au>Lewis, Simon L.</au><au>Vieira, Simone Aparecida</au><au>Fauset, Sophie</au><au>Laurance, Susan</au><au>Feldpausch, Ted</au><au>Erwin, Terry</au><au>Killeen, Timothy</au><au>Wortel, Verginia</au><au>Moscoso, Victor Chama</au><au>Vos, Vincent</au><au>Laurance, William</au><au>Malhi, Yadvinder</au><au>Phillips, Oliver L.</au><format>journal</format><genre>article</genre><ristype>JOUR</ristype><atitle>Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests</atitle><jtitle>Global ecology and biogeography</jtitle><date>2022-08</date><risdate>2022</risdate><volume>31</volume><issue>8</issue><spage>1571</spage><epage>1588</epage><pages>1571-1588</pages><issn>1466-822X</issn><eissn>1466-8238</eissn><eissn>1466-822X</eissn><abstract>Aim
Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soil water on forest processes. Nevertheless, given that plants take up water from the soil, the impacts of climatic water supply on plants are likely to be modulated by soil water conditions.
Location
Lowland Amazonian forests.
Time period
1971–2019.
Methods
We used 344 long‐term inventory plots distributed across Amazonia to analyse the effects of long‐term climatic and edaphic water supply on forest functioning. We modelled forest structure and dynamics as a function of climatic, soil‐water and edaphic properties.
Results
Water supplied by both precipitation and groundwater affects forest structure and dynamics, but in different ways. Forests with a shallow water table (depth <5 m) had 18% less above‐ground woody productivity and 23% less biomass stock than forests with a deep water table. Forests in drier climates (maximum cumulative water deficit < −160 mm) had 21% less productivity and 24% less biomass than those in wetter climates. Productivity was affected by the interaction between climatic water deficit and water table depth. On average, in drier climates the forests with a shallow water table had lower productivity than those with a deep water table, with this difference decreasing within wet climates, where lower productivity was confined to a very shallow water table.
Main conclusions
We show that the two extremes of water availability (excess and deficit) both reduce productivity in Amazon upland (terra‐firme) forests. Biomass and productivity across Amazonia respond not simply to regional climate, but rather to its interaction with water table conditions, exhibiting high local differentiation. Our study disentangles the relative contribution of those factors, helping to improve understanding of the functioning of tropical ecosystems and how they are likely to respond to climate change.</abstract><cop>Oxford</cop><pub>Wiley Subscription Services, Inc</pub><doi>10.1111/geb.13531</doi><tpages>18</tpages><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8738-2659</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1687-4373</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0598-4996</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8993-6168</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5335-1259</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6446-3376</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5415-1822</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2103-7390</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-7738</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-0525</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1391-4875</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6289-5127</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6710-1269</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3251-1679</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5592-9891</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9600-4625</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7239-2881</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1988-3950</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2824-267X</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5411-1169</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2037-2396</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8779-1559</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6950-7286</orcidid><oa>free_for_read</oa></addata></record> |
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| language | eng |
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| source | Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete |
| subjects | above‐ground biomass Biodiversity Biodiversity and Ecology Biomass Botanics carbon Climate change Deep water Ecology, environment Ecosystems Environmental Sciences forest dynamics Forests Groundwater Life Sciences Moisture content Productivity seasonality Shallow water Soil conditions Soil dynamics Soil properties Soil water Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy tropical ecology Tropical forests Vegetal Biology Water availability Water deficit Water depth Water supply Water table Water table depth Wet climates |
| title | Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests |
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