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Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery

Tong Qiu ¹

Robert Andrus ²

Marie Claire Aravena Acuña ³

Davide Ascoli ⁴

Yves Bergeron ⁵

Roberta Berretti ⁴

Daniel Berveiller ⁶

Michał Bogdziewicz ⁷

Thomas Boivin ⁸

Raúl Bonal ⁹

Don C Bragg ¹⁰

Thomas Caignard ¹¹

Rafael Calama ¹²

Jesús Julio Camarero ¹³

Chia-Hao Chang-Yang ¹⁴

Natalie L. Cleavitt ¹⁵

Benoit Courbaud ¹⁶

François Courbet ⁸

Thomas Curt ¹⁷

Adrian Das ¹⁸

EN Daskalakou ¹⁹

Hendrik Davi ⁸

Nicolas Delpierre ⁶

Sylvain Delzon ¹¹

Michael C. Dietze ²⁰

Sergio Donoso Calderon ³

Laurent Dormont ²¹

Josep Maria Espelta ²²

Timothy J. Fahey ¹⁵

W. Farfan-Rios ²³

Catherine A. Gehring ²⁴

Gregory E. Gilbert ²⁵

Georg Gratzer ²⁶

Cathryn H Greenberg ²⁷

Qinfeng Guo ²⁸

Andrew Hacket-Pain ²⁹

Arndt Hampe ¹¹

Qingmin Han ³⁰

Janneke Hille Ris Lambers ³¹

Kazuhiko HOSHIZAKI ³²

Inés A Ibáñez ³³

Jill K. Johnstone ³⁴

Valentin Journé ¹⁶

Daisuke Kabeya ³⁰

Christopher L Kilner ¹

Thomas Kitzberger ³⁵

Johannes M. H. Knops ³⁶

RICHARD W. KOBE ³⁷

Georges Kunstler ¹⁶

Jonathan G. A. Lageard ³⁸

Jalene M. LaMontagne ³⁹

Mateusz Ledwoń ⁴⁰

Francois Lefevre ⁸

Theodor Leininger ⁴¹

Jean-Marc Limousin ⁴²

James M. Lutz ⁴³

Diana Macias ⁴⁴

Eliot J B Mcintire ⁴⁵

Christopher M Moore ⁴⁶

Emily V Moran ⁴⁷

Renzo Motta ⁴

J A Myers ⁴⁸

Thomas A. Nagel ⁴⁹

Kyotaro Noguchi ⁵⁰

Jean-Marc Ourcival ⁴²

Robert R. Parmenter ⁵¹

Ian S. Pearse ⁵²

Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos ⁵³

Lukasz Piechnik ⁵⁴

John Poulsen ¹

Renata Poulton Kamakura ¹

Miranda D. Redmond ⁵⁵

Chantal D. Reid ¹

Kyle C Rodman ⁵⁶

Francisco Rodríguez Sánchez ⁵⁷

Javier D Sanguinetti ⁵⁸

C. Lane Scher ¹

William H Schlesinger ¹

Harald Schmidt Van Marle ³

Barbara Seget ⁵⁴

Shubhi Sharma ¹

Miles Silman ⁵⁹

Michael A Steele ⁶⁰

Nathan L. Stephenson ¹⁸

Jacob N Straub ⁶¹

I-Fang Sun ⁶²

Samantha Sutton ¹

Jennifer J Swenson ¹

Margaret Swift ¹

P Thomas ⁶³

M. Uriarte ⁶⁴

Giorgio Vacchiano ⁶⁵

Thomas T. Veblen ²

Amy V. Whipple ²⁴

Thomas G. Whitham ²⁴

Andreas P. Wion ⁵⁵

Boyd Wright ⁶⁶

S. Joseph Wright ⁶⁷

Kai Zhu ²⁵

Jess K Zimmerman ⁶⁸

Roman Zlotin ⁶⁹

Magdalena Żywiec ⁵⁴

James S Clark ^{1, 16}

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Nicholas school of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, USA |

Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA |

Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (FCFCN), La Pintana, Chile |

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Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy |

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Forest Research Institute, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada |

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Universite Paris-Saclay, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systematique et Evolution, Orsay, France |

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Department of Systematic Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland |

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Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Ecologie des Forets Mediterranennes, Avignon, France |

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Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain |

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USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Monticello, USA |

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Universite Bordeaux, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Biodiversity, Genes, and Communities (BIOGECO), Pessac, France |

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Centro de Investigacion Forestal - Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CIFOR), Madrid, Spain

Spanish National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology

Institute of Forest Sciences

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Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain |

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Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |

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Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |

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Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire EcoSystemes et Societes En Montagne (LESSEM), St. Martin-d’Heres, France |

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Aix Marseille universite, Institut National de Recherche pour Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE), Aix-en-Provence, France |

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USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Three Rivers, USA |

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Institute of Mediterranean and Forest Ecosystems, Athens, Greece |

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Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, USA |

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Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, France |

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Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Bellaterra, Spain |

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Washington University in Saint Louis, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA |

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Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA |

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Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA |

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Institute of Forest Ecology, Wien, Austria |

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Bent Creek Experimental Forest, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, USA |

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Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, USA |

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Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK |

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Department of Plant Ecology Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba, Japan |

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Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |

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Department of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan |

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School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |

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Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA |

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Department of Ecology, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas - Universidad Nacional del Comahue), Bariloche, Argentina |

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Health and Environmental Sciences Department, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China |

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Department of Plant Biology, Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA |

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Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK |

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Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, USA |

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Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland |

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USDA, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Stoneville, USA |

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CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier Cedex 5, France |

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Department of Wildland Resources, and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, USA |

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Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA |

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Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, Canada |

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Department of Biology, Colby College, Waterville, USA |

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School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, USA |

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Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA |

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Department of forestry and renewable forest resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |

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Tohoku research center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Japan |

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Valles Caldera National Preserve, National Park Service, Jemez Springs, USA |

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Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, USA |

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Inst. de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IRNAS-CSIC), Seville, Spain |

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W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland |

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Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, COlorado State University, Fort COllins, USA |

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Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA |

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Department of Biologia Vegetal y Ecologia, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain |

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Bilogo Dpto. Conservacin y Manejo Parque Nacional Lanin Elordi y Perito Moreno, San Marten de los Andes Neuqun, Argentina |

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Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA |

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Department of Biology, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, USA |

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Department of Environmental Science and Ecology, State University of New York-Brockport, Brockport, USA |

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Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Ecology and Sustainability, College of Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan |

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School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK |

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Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Territory, Agroenergy (DISAA), University of Milan, Milano, Italy |

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Botany, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, Australia |

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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843n03092, Balboa, Republic of Panama |

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Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, USA |

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Geography Department and Russian and East European Institute, Bloomington, USA |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2022-05-02

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Nature Communications

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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30037-9

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Abstract

The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought, fire, and harvest. A synthesis of fecundity data from 714 species worldwide allowed us to examine hypotheses that are central to quantifying reproduction, a foundation for assessing fitness in forest trees. Four major findings emerged. First, seed production is not constrained by a strict trade-off between seed size and numbers. Instead, seed numbers vary over ten orders of magnitude, with species that invest in large seeds producing more seeds than expected from the 1:1 trade-off. Second, gymnosperms have lower seed production than angiosperms, potentially due to their extra investments in protective woody cones. Third, nutrient-demanding species, indicated by high foliar phosphorus concentrations, have low seed production. Finally, sensitivity of individual species to soil fertility varies widely, limiting the response of community seed production to fertility gradients. In combination, these findings can inform models of forest response that need to incorporate reproductive potential. The relationships that control seed production in trees are key to understand evolutionary pressures that have shaped forests. A global synthesis of fecundity data reveals that while seed production is not constrained by a strict size-number trade-off, it is influenced by taxonomy and nutrient allocation.

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@article{2022_Qiu,

author = {Tong Qiu and Robert Andrus and Marie Claire Aravena Acuña and Davide Ascoli and Yves Bergeron and Roberta Berretti and Daniel Berveiller and Michał Bogdziewicz and Thomas Boivin and Raúl Bonal and Don C Bragg and Thomas Caignard and Rafael Calama and Jesús Julio Camarero and Chia-Hao Chang-Yang and Natalie L. Cleavitt and Benoit Courbaud and François Courbet and Thomas Curt and Adrian Das and EN Daskalakou and Hendrik Davi and Nicolas Delpierre and Sylvain Delzon and Michael C. Dietze and Sergio Donoso Calderon and Laurent Dormont and Josep Maria Espelta and Timothy J. Fahey and W. Farfan-Rios and Catherine A. Gehring and Gregory E. Gilbert and Georg Gratzer and Cathryn H Greenberg and Qinfeng Guo and Andrew Hacket-Pain and Arndt Hampe and Qingmin Han and Janneke Hille Ris Lambers and Kazuhiko HOSHIZAKI and Inés A Ibáñez and Jill K. Johnstone and Valentin Journé and Daisuke Kabeya and Christopher L Kilner and Thomas Kitzberger and Johannes M. H. Knops and RICHARD W. KOBE and Georges Kunstler and Jonathan G. A. Lageard and others},

title = {Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery},

journal = {Nature Communications},

year = {2022},

volume = {13},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {may},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30037-9},

number = {1},

pages = {2381},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-022-30037-9}

}

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