o:6713 The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks en 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. 1552099 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9 2024-12-20T06:58:25.743Z 44 yes 46 Lidong Mo 46 Thomas W. Crowther 46 Daniel S. Maynard 46 Johan van den Hoogen 46 Haozhi Ma 46 Lalasia Bialic-Murphy 46 Jingjing Liang 46 Sergio de-Miguel 46 Gert-Jan Nabuurs 46 Peter B. Reich 46 Oliver L. Phillips 46 Meinrad Abegg 46 Yves C. Adou Yao 46 Giorgio Alberti 46 Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano 46 Braulio Vilchez Alvarado 46 Esteban Alvarez-Dávila 46 Patricia Alvarez-Loayza 46 Luciana F. Alves 46 Iêda Amaral 46 Christian Ammer 46 Clara Antón-Fernández 46 Alejandro Araujo-Murakami 46 Luzmila Arroyo 46 Valerio Avitabile 46 Gerardo A. Aymard 46 Timothy R. Baker 46 Radomir Bałazy 46 Olaf Banki 46 Jorcely G. Barroso 46 Meredith L. Bastian 46 Jean-Francois Bastin 46 Luca Birigazzi 46 Philippe Birnbaum 46 Robert Bitariho 46 Pascal Boeckx 46 Frans Bongers 46 Coline C. F. Boonman 46 Olivier Bouriaud 46 Pedro H. S. Brancalion 46 Susanne Brandl 46 Francis Q. Brearley 46 Roel Brienen 46 Eben N. Broadbent 46 Helge Bruelheide 46 Filippo Bussotti 46 Roberto Cazzolla Gatti 46 Ricardo G. César 46 Goran Češljar 0000-0003-0438-1050 46 Robin Chazdon 46 Han Y. H. Chen 46 Chelsea Chisholm 46 Hyunkook Cho 46 Emil Cienciala 46 Connie Clark 46 David Clark 46 Gabriel D. Colletta 46 David A. Coomes 46 Fernando Cornejo Valverde 46 José J. Corral-Rivas 46 Philip M. Crim 46 Jonathan R. Cumming 46 Selvadurai Dayanandan 46 André L. de Gasper 46 Mathieu Decuyper 46 Géraldine Derroire 46 Ben DeVries 46 Ilija Djordjevic 0000-0001-9499-3565 46 Jiri Dolezal 46 Aurélie Dourdain 46 Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang 46 Brian J. Enquist 46 Teresa J. Eyre 46 Adandé Belarmain Fandohan 46 Tom M. Fayle 46 Ted R. Feldpausch 46 Leandro V. Ferreira 46 Leena Finér 46 Markus Fischer 46 Christine Fletcher 46 Lorenzo Frizzera 46 Javier G. P. Gamarra 46 Damiano Gianelle 46 Henry B. Glick 46 David J. Harris 46 Andrew Hector 46 Andreas Hemp 46 Geerten Hengeveld 46 Bruno Hérault 46 John L. Herbohn 46 Martin Herold 46 Peter Hietz 46 Annika Hillers 46 Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado 46 Cang Hui 46 Thomas Ibanez 46 Nobuo Imai 46 Andrzej M. Jagodziński 46 Bogdan Jaroszewicz 46 Vivian Kvist Johannsen 46 Carlos A. Joly 46 Tommaso Jucker 46 Ilbin Jung 46 Viktor  Karminov 46 Kuswata Kartawinata 46 Elizabeth Kearsley 46 David Kenfack 46  Deborah K. Kennard 46 Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas 46 Gunnar Keppel 46 Mohammed Latif Khan 46 Timothy J. Killeen 46 Hyun Seok Kim 46 Kanehiro Kitayama 46 Michael Köhl 46 Henn Korjus 46 Florian Kraxner 46 Dmitry Kucher 46 Diana Laarmann 46 Mait Lang 46 Simon L. Lewis 46 Yuanzhi Li 46 Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez 46 Huicui Lu 46 Natalia V. Lukina 46 Brian S. Maitner 46 Yadvinder Malhi 46 Eric Marcon 46 Beatriz Schwantes Marimon 46 Ben Hur Marimon-Junior 46 Andrew R. Marshall 46 Emanuel H. Martin 46 James K. McCarthy 46 Jorge A. Meave 46 Omar Melo-Cruz 46 Casimiro Mendoza 46 Irina Mendoza-Polo 46 Stanislaw Miscicki 46 Cory Merow 46 Abel Monteagudo Mendoza 46 Vanessa S. Moreno 46 Sharif A. Mukul 46 Philip Mundhenk 46 María Guadalupe Nava-Miranda, 46 David Neill 46 Victor J. Neldner 46 Radovan V. Nevenić 46 Michael R. Ngugi 46 Pascal A. Niklaus 46 Petr Ontikov 46 Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi 46 Yude Pan 46 Alain Paquette 46 Alexander Parada-Gutierrez 46 Elena I. Parfenova 46 Minjee Park 46 Marc Parren 46 Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy 46 Pablo L. Peri 46 Sebastian Pfautsch 46 Nicolas Picard 46 Maria Teresa F. Piedade 46 Daniel Piotto 46 Nigel C. A. Pitman 46 Lourens Poorter 46 Axel Dalberg Poulsen 46 John R. Poulsen 46 Hans Pretzsch  46 Freddy Ramirez Arevalo 46 Zorayda Restrepo-Correa 46 Sarah J. Richardson 46 Mirco Rodeghiero 46 Samir G. Rolim 46 Anand Roopsind 46 Francesco Rovero 46 Ervan Rutishauser 46 Purabi Saikia 46 Christian Salas-Eljatib 46 Philippe Saner 46 Peter Schall 46 Mart-Jan  Schelhaas 46 Dmitry Schepaschenko 46 Michael Scherer-Lorenzen  46 Bernhard Schmid 46 Jochen Schöngart 46 Eric B. Searle 46 Vladimír Seben 46 Josep M. Serra-Diaz 46 Douglas Sheil 46 Anatoly Z. Shvidenko 46 Ana Carolina Da Silva 46 Javier E. Silva-Espejo 46 Marcos Silveira 46 James Singh 46 Plinio Sist 46 Ferry Slik 46 Bonaventure Sonké 46 Enio Egon Sosinski Jr 46 Alexandre F. Souza 46 Krzysztof J. Stereńczak 46 Jens-Christian Svenning 46 Miroslav Svoboda 46 Ben Swanepoel 46 Natalia Targhetta 46 Nadja Tchebakova 46 Hans ter Steege 46 Raquel Thomas 46 Elena Tikhonova 46 Peter M. Umunay 46 Vladimir A. Usoltsev 46 Renato  Valencia 46 Fernando Valladares 46 Peter M. Van Bodegom 46 Fons van der Plas 46 Tran Van Do 46 Michael E. van Nuland 46 Rodolfo M. Vasquez 46 Hans Verbeeck 46 Helder Viana 46 Alexander C. Vibrans 46 Simone Vieira 46 Klaus von Gadow 46 Hua-Feng  Wang 46 James V. Watson 46 Gijsbert D. A. Werner 46 Florian Wittmann 46 Hannsjoerg Woell 46 Verginia Wortel 46 Roderick Zagt 46 Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki 46 Chunyu Zhang 46 Xiuhai Zhao 46 Mo Zhou 46 Zhi-Xin Zhu 46 Irie C. Zo-Bi 46 Constantin M. 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