o:8052 Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests en Species’ traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. The extent to which traits of dominant and rare tree species differ remains untested across a broad environmental range, limiting our understanding of how species traits and the environment shape forest functional composition. We use a global dataset of tree composition of >22,000 forest plots and 11 traits of 1663 tree species to ask how locally dominant and rare species differ in their trait values, and how these differences are driven by climatic gradients in temperature and water availability in forest biomes across the globe. We find three consistent trait differences between locally dominant and rare species across all biomes; dominant species are taller, have softer wood and higher loading on the multivariate stem strategy axis (related to narrow tracheids and thick bark). The difference between traits of dominant and rare species is more strongly driven by temperature compared to water availability, as temperature might affect a larger number of traits. Therefore, climate change driven global temperature rise may have a strong effect on trait differences between dominant and rare tree species and may lead to changes in species abundances and therefore strong community reassembly. 1552099 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7 1552102 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59754-7 2025-07-30T06:24:35.601Z 44 yes 46 Iris Hordijk 46 Lourens Poorter 46 Jingjing Liang 46 Peter B. Reich 46 Sergio de-Miguel 46 Gert-Jan Nabuurs 46 Javier G. P. Gamarra 46 Han Y. H. Chen 46 Mo Zhou 46 Susan K. Wiser 46 Hans Pretzsch 46 Alain Paquette 46 Nicolas Picard 46 Bruno Hérault 46 Jean-Francois Bastin 46 Giorgio Alberti 46 Meinrad Abegg 46 Yves C. Adou Yao 46 Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano 46 Braulio V. Alvarado 46 Esteban Alvarez-Davila 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 C 46 Timothy Baker 46 Olaf Banki 46 Jorcely Barroso 46 Meredith L. Bastian 46 Luca Birigazzi 46 Philippe Birnbaum 46 Robert Bitariho 46 Pascal Boeckx 46 Frans Bongers 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 Roberto Cazzolla Gatti 46 Ricardo G. Cesar 46 Goran Česljar 0000-0003-0438-1050 46 Robin L. Chazdon 46 Chelsea Chisholm 46 Emil Cienciala 46 Connie J. Clark 46 David B. Clark 46 Gabriel Colletta 46 David Coomes 46 Fernando Cornejo Valverde 46 Jose J. 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Souza 46 Hans ter Steege 46 Krzysztof Stereńczak 46 Jens-Christian Svenning 46 Miroslav Svoboda 46 Ben Swanepoel 46 Natalia Targhetta 46 Nadja Tchebakova 46 Raquel Thomas 46 Elena Tikhonova 46 Peter Umunay 46 Vladimir Usoltsev 46 Renato Valencia 46 Fernando Valladares 46 Fons van der Plas 46 Tran Van Do 46 Michael E. Van Nuland 46 Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez 46 Hans Verbeeck 46 Helder Viana 46 Alexander C. Vibrans 46 Simone Vieira 46 Klaus von Gadow 46 Hua-Feng Wang 46 James Watson 46 Gijsbert D. A. Werner 46 Florian Wittmann 46 Verginia Wortel 46 Roderick Zagt 46 Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki 46 Chunyu Zhang 46 Xiuhai Zhao 46 Zhi-Xin Zhu 46 Irie Casimir Zo-Bi 46 Daniel S. Maynard 46 Thomas W. Crowther  application/pdf 4201841 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:8052 no yes 16 70 92000001 2025 Nature Communications 16 1 15 Nature 2025