Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests

Thaiane R. Sousa, Juliana Schietti, Igor O. Ribeiro, Thaise Emílio, Rafael Herrera Fernández, Hans ter Steege, Carolina V. Castilho, Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Timothy Baker, Aline Pontes-Lopes, Camila V.J. Silva, Juliana M. Silveira, Géraldine Derroire, Wendeson Castro, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Ademir Ruschel, Adriana Prieto, Adriano José Nogueira Lima, Agustín Rudas, Alejandro Araujo-MurakamiAlexander Parada Gutierrez, Ana Andrade, Anand Roopsind, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, Anthony Di Fiore, Armando Torres-Lezama, Aurélie Dourdain, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Benoit Burban, Bert van Ulft, Bruno Herault, Carlos Quesada, Casimiro Mendoza, Clement Stahl, Damien Bonal, David Galbraith, David Neill, Edmar A. de Oliveira, Eduardo Hase, Eliana Jimenez-Rojas, Emilio Vilanova, Eric Arets, Erika Berenguer, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Everton Almeida, Fernanda Coelho, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Fernando Elias, Foster Brown, Frans Bongers, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Geertje van der Heijden, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Guido Pardo, Hirma Ramírez-Angulo, Iêda Leão do Amaral, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, James A. Comiskey, James Singh, Javier Silva Espejo, Jhon del Aguila-Pasquel, Joeri Alexander Zwerts, Joey Talbot, John Terborgh, Joice Ferreira, Jorcely G. Barroso, Jos Barlow, José Luís Camargo, Juliana Stropp, Julie Peacock, Julio Serrano, Karina Melgaço, Leandro V. Ferreira, Lilian Blanc, Lourens Poorter, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Luiz Aragão, Luzmila Arroyo, Marcos Silveira, Maria Cristina Peñuela-Mora, Mario Percy Núñez Vargas, Marisol Toledo, Mat Disney, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Michel Baisie, Michelle Kalamandeen, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Nállarett Dávila Cardozo, Natalino Silva, Nigel Pitman, Niro Higuchi, Olaf Banki, Patricia Alvarez Loayza, Paulo M.L.A. Graça, Paulo S. Morandi, Peter J. van der Meer, Peter van der Hout, Pétrus Naisso, Plínio Barbosa Camargo, Rafael Salomão, Raquel Thomas, Rene Boot, Ricardo Keichi Umetsu, Richarlly da Costa Silva, Robyn Burnham, Roderick Zagt, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Roel Brienen, Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro, Simon L. Lewis, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Simone Matias de Almeida Reis, Sophie Fauset, Susan Laurance, Ted Feldpausch, Terry Erwin, Timothy Killeen, Verginia Wortel, Victor Chama Moscoso, Vincent Vos, Walter Huaraca Huasco, William Laurance, Yadvinder Malhi, William E. Magnusson, Oliver L. Phillips, Flávia R.C. Costa

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Aim: Water availability is the major driver of tropical forest structure and dynamics. Most research has focused on the impacts of climatic water availability, whereas remarkably little is known about the influence of water table depth and excess soil water on forest processes. Nevertheless, given that plants take up water from the soil, the impacts of climatic water supply on plants are likely to be modulated by soil water conditions. Location: Lowland Amazonian forests. Time period: 1971–2019. Methods: We used 344 long-term inventory plots distributed across Amazonia to analyse the effects of long-term climatic and edaphic water supply on forest functioning. We modelled forest structure and dynamics as a function of climatic, soil-water and edaphic properties. Results: Water supplied by both precipitation and groundwater affects forest structure and dynamics, but in different ways. Forests with a shallow water table (depth <5 m) had 18% less above-ground woody productivity and 23% less biomass stock than forests with a deep water table. Forests in drier climates (maximum cumulative water deficit < −160 mm) had 21% less productivity and 24% less biomass than those in wetter climates. Productivity was affected by the interaction between climatic water deficit and water table depth. On average, in drier climates the forests with a shallow water table had lower productivity than those with a deep water table, with this difference decreasing within wet climates, where lower productivity was confined to a very shallow water table. Main conclusions: We show that the two extremes of water availability (excess and deficit) both reduce productivity in Amazon upland (terra-firme) forests. Biomass and productivity across Amazonia respond not simply to regional climate, but rather to its interaction with water table conditions, exhibiting high local differentiation. Our study disentangles the relative contribution of those factors, helping to improve understanding of the functioning of tropical ecosystems and how they are likely to respond to climate change.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)1571-1588
Número de páginas18
PublicaciónGlobal Ecology and Biogeography
Volumen31
N.º8
DOI
EstadoPublicada - ago. 2022
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