Plant Functional Diversity and the Biogeography of Biomes in North and South America

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dc.creatorSusy Echeverría-londoño
dc.creatorBrody Sandel
dc.creatorStephen A. Smith
dc.creatorJens Christian Svenning
dc.creatorSusan k. Wiser
dc.creatorAndrew Kerkhoff
dc.creatorBrian Enquist
dc.creatorDanilo Rafael Mesquita Neves
dc.creatorBrad Boyle
dc.creatorNathan Jared Boardman Kraft
dc.creatorCyrille Violle
dc.creatorBrian Maitner
dc.creatorBrian Mcgill
dc.creatorRobert Peet
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-22T22:04:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-09T00:55:36Z
dc.date.available2023-06-22T22:04:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00219
dc.identifier.issn2296-701X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1843/55247
dc.languagepor
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subjectBiogeografia
dc.subject.otherBiogeography
dc.subject.otherBiomes
dc.subject.otherFunctional traits
dc.subject.otherHypervolumes
dc.subject.otherMacroecology
dc.subject.otherPlant functional diversity
dc.titlePlant Functional Diversity and the Biogeography of Biomes in North and South America
dc.typeArtigo de periódico
local.citation.epage12
local.citation.spage1
local.citation.volume6
local.description.resumoThe concept of the biome has a long history dating back to Carl Ludwig Willdenow and Alexander von Humboldt. However, while the association between climate and the structure and diversity of vegetation has a long history, scientists have only recently begun to develop a more synthetic understanding of biomes based on the evolution of plant diversity, function, and community assembly. At the broadest scales, climate filters species based on their functional attributes, and the resulting functional differences in dominant vegetation among biomes are important to modeling the global carbon cycle and the functioning of the Earth system. Nevertheless, across biomes, plant species have been shown to occupy a common set of global functional “spectra”, reflecting variation in overall plant size, leaf economics, and hydraulics. Still, comprehensive measures of functional diversity and assessments of functional similarity have not been compared across biomes at continental to global scales. Here, we examine distributions of functional diversity of plant species across the biomes of North and South America, based on distributional information for > 80,000 vascular plant species and functional trait data for ca. 8,000 of those species. First, we show that despite progress in data integration and synthesis, significant knowledge shortfalls persist that limit our ability to quantify the functional biodiversity of biomes. Second, our analyses of the available data show that all the biomes in North and South America share a common pattern–most geographically common, widespread species in any biome tend to be functionally similar whereas the most functionally distinctive species are restricted in their distribution. Third, when only the widespread and functionally similar species in each biome are considered, biomes can be more readily distinguished functionally, and patterns of dissimilarity between biomes appear to reflect a correspondence between climate and functional niche space. Taken together, our results suggest that while the study of the functional diversity of biomes is still in its formative stages, further development of the field will yield insights linking evolution, biogeography, community assembly, and ecosystem function.
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-146X
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-6902
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2035-9531
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3415-0862
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8938-8181
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9617-8687
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6124-7096
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0855-4169
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8867-7806
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-9226
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-9880
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0850-1913
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2823-6587
local.publisher.countryBrasil
local.publisher.departmentICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE BOTÂNICA
local.publisher.initialsUFMG
local.url.externahttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2018.00219/full

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