http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode application/pdf 5165882 bytes 2024 The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks Mo, Lidong Crowther, Thomas W. Maynard, Daniel S. van den Hoogen, Johan Ma, Haozhi Bialic-Murphy, Lalasia Liang, Jingjing de-Miguel, Sergio Nabuurs, Gert-Jan B. Reich, Peter Phillips, Oliver L. Abegg, Meinrad Adou Yao, Yves C. Alberti, Giorgio Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M. Vilchez Alvarado, Braulio Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia Alves, Luciana F. Amaral, Iêda Ammer, Christian Antón-Fernández, Clara Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro Arroyo, Luzmila Avitabile, Valerio Aymard, Gerardo A. Baker, Timothy R. Bałazy, Radomir Banki, Olaf Barroso, Jorcely G. Bastian, Meredith L. Bastin, Jean-Francois Birigazzi, Luca Birnbaum, Philippe Bitariho, Robert Boeckx, Pascal Bongers, Frans Boonman, Coline C. F. Bouriaud, Olivier Brancalion, Pedro H. S. Brandl, Susanne Brearley, Francis Q. Brienen, Roel Broadbent, Eben N. Bruelheide, Helge Bussotti, Filippo Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto César, Ricardo G. Češljar, Goran Chazdon, Robin Chen, Han Y. H. Chisholm, Chelsea Cho, Hyunkook Cienciala, Emil Clark, Connie Clark, David Colletta, Gabriel D. Coomes, David A. Cornejo Valverde, Fernando Corral-Rivas, José J. Crim, Philip M. Cumming, Jonathan R. Dayanandan, Selvadurai de Gasper, André L. Decuyper, Mathieu Derroire, Géraldine DeVries, Ben Djordjevic, Ilija Dolezal, Jiri Dourdain, Aurélie Laurier Engone Obiang, Nestor Enquist, Brian J. Eyre, Teresa J. Belarmain Fandohan, Adandé Fayle, Tom M. Feldpausch, Ted R. Ferreira, Leandro V. Finér, Leena Fischer, Markus Fletcher, Christine Frizzera, Lorenzo Gamarra, Javier G. P. Gianelle, Damiano Glick, Henry B. Harris, David J. Hector, Andrew Hemp, Andreas Hengeveld, Geerten Hérault, Bruno Herbohn, John L. Herold, Martin Hietz, Peter Hillers, Annika Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N. Hui, Cang Ibanez, Thomas Imai, Nobuo Jagodziński, Andrzej M. Jaroszewicz, Bogdan Johannsen, Vivian Kvist Joly, Carlos A. Jucker, Tommaso Jung, Ilbin Karminov, Viktor Kartawinata, Kuswata Kearsley, Elizabeth Kenfack, David Kennard, Deborah K. Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian Keppel, Gunnar Latif Khan, Mohammed Killeen, Timothy J. Seok Kim, Hyun Kitayama, Kanehiro Köhl, Michael Korjus, Henn Kraxner, Florian Kucher, Dmitry Laarmann, Diana Lang, Mait Lewis, Simon L. Li, Yuanzhi Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela Lu, Huicui Lukina, Natalia V. Maitner, Brian S. Malhi, Yadvinder Marcon, Eric Schwantes Marimon, Beatriz Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur Marshall, Andrew R. Martin, Emanuel H. McCarthy, James K. Meave, Jorge A. Melo-Cruz, Omar Mendoza, Casimiro Mendoza-Polo, Irina Miscicki, Stanislaw Merow, Cory Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel Moreno, Vanessa S. Mukul, Sharif A. Mundhenk, Philip Nava-Miranda,, María Guadalupe Neill, David Neldner, Victor J. Nevenić, Radovan V. Ngugi, Michael R. Niklaus, Pascal A. Ontikov, Petr Ortiz-Malavasi, Edgar Pan, Yude Paquette, Alain Parada-Gutierrez, Alexander Parfenova, Elena I. Park, Minjee Parren, Marc Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy Peri, Pablo L. Pfautsch, Sebastian Picard, Nicolas Piedade, Maria Teresa F. Piotto, Daniel Pitman, Nigel C. A. Poorter, Lourens Dalberg Poulsen, Axel Poulsen, John R. Pretzsch, Hans Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy Restrepo-Correa, Zorayda Richardson, Sarah J. Rodeghiero, Mirco Rolim, Samir G. Roopsind, Anand Rovero, Francesco Rutishauser, Ervan Saikia, Purabi Salas-Eljatib, Christian Saner, Philippe Schall, Peter Schelhaas, Mart-Jan Schepaschenko, Dmitry Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael Schmid, Bernhard Schöngart, Jochen Searle, Eric B. Seben, Vladimír Serra-Diaz, Josep M. Sheil, Douglas Shvidenko, Anatoly Z. Da Silva, Ana Carolina Silva-Espejo, Javier E. Silveira, Marcos Singh, James Sist, Plinio Slik, Ferry Sonké, Bonaventure Sosinski Jr, Enio Egon Souza, Alexandre F. Stereńczak, Krzysztof J. Svenning, Jens-Christian Svoboda, Miroslav Swanepoel, Ben Targhetta, Natalia Tchebakova, Nadja ter Steege, Hans Thomas, Raquel Tikhonova, Elena Umunay, Peter M. Usoltsev, Vladimir A. Valencia, Renato Valladares, Fernando Van Bodegom, Peter M. van der Plas, Fons Van Do, Tran van Nuland, Michael E. Vasquez, Rodolfo M. Verbeeck, Hans Viana, Helder Vibrans, Alexander C. Vieira, Simone von Gadow, Klaus Wang, Hua-Feng Watson, James V. Werner, Gijsbert D. A. Wittmann, Florian Woell, Hannsjoerg Wortel, Verginia Zagt, Roderick Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Tomasz Zhang, Chunyu Zhao, Xiuhai Zhou, Mo Zhu, Zhi-Xin Zo-Bi, Irie C. Zohner, Constantin M. https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:6713 doi:10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9 Nature ecology & evolution volume: 8 startpage: 2195 endpage: 2212 eng The density of wood is a key indicator of the carbon investment strategies of trees, impacting productivity and carbon storage. Despite its importance, the global variation in wood density and its environmental controls remain poorly understood, preventing accurate predictions of global forest carbon stocks. Here we analyse information from 1.1 million forest inventory plots alongside wood density data from 10,703 tree species to create a spatially explicit understanding of the global wood density distribution and its drivers. Our findings reveal a pronounced latitudinal gradient, with wood in tropical forests being up to 30% denser than that in boreal forests. In both angiosperms and gymnosperms, hydrothermal conditions represented by annual mean temperature and soil moisture emerged as the primary factors influencing the variation in wood density globally. This indicates similar environmental filters and evolutionary adaptations among distinct plant groups, underscoring the essential role of abiotic factors in determining wood density in forest ecosystems. Additionally, our study highlights the prominent role of disturbance, such as human modification and fire risk, in influencing wood density at more local scales. Factoring in the spatial variation of wood density notably changes the estimates of forest carbon stocks, leading to differences of up to 21% within biomes. Therefore, our research contributes to a deeper understanding of terrestrial biomass distribution and how environmental changes and disturbances impact forest ecosystems. info:eu-repo/semantics/article Nature