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Global community level patterns of forest hydraulic traits and their environmental controls

Global community level patterns of forest hydraulic traits and their environmental controls

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Forest hydraulic traits regulate plant water transport, drought tolerance, and mortality risk,... View more

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Forest hydraulic traits regulate plant water transport, drought tolerance, and mortality risk, thereby playing a central role in shaping forest responses to climate variability and change. While global databases now provide unprecedented coverage of key hydraulic traits, their spatial organization at the community level remains largely unresolved. This project aims to map global patterns of forest hydraulic traits by integrating trait observations with extensive forest inventory data.
We will compile species level hydraulic trait data, including vulnerability to cavitation metrics, stomatal regulation traits, and related functional attributes, and link them to forest inventory plots fromGFBi. By aggregating species traits to the community level using abundance weighted approaches, we will generate global maps of forest hydraulic strategies across biomes.
Using these maps, we will quantify how community level hydraulic traits vary along gradients of climate, aridity, and climatic variability, and assess the relative roles of contemporary climate, climate extremes, and phylogenetic constraints in shaping observed patterns. The project will further identify regions where hydraulic trait composition may confer resilience or vulnerability to increasing drought stress.
By providing the first spatially explicit, community level synthesis of forest hydraulic traits at the global scale, this project will advance understanding of forest functional diversity and improve predictions of forest responses to ongoing climate change.

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