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Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species
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Año del Documento
2025
Editorial
Springer
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Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Nature, 2025, vol. 640, p. 395-401
Abstract
Trees are an important carbon sink as they accumulate biomass through photosynthesis1. Identifying tree species that grow fast is therefore commonly considered to be essential for effective climate change mitigation through forest planting. Although species characteristics are key information for plantation design and forest management, field studies often fail to detect clear relationships between species functional traits and tree growth2. Here, by consolidating four independent datasets and classifying the acquisitive and conservative species based on their functional trait values, we show that acquisitive tree species, which are supposedly fast-growing species, generally grow slowly in field conditions. This discrepancy between the current paradigm and field observations is explained by the interactions with environmental conditions that influence growth. Acquisitive species require moist mild climates and fertile soils, conditions that are generally not met in the field. By contrast, conservative species, which are supposedly slow-growing species, show generally higher realized growth due to their ability to tolerate unfavourable environmental conditions. In general, conservative tree species grow more steadily than acquisitive tree species in non-tropical forests. We recommend planting acquisitive tree species in areas where they can realize their fast-growing potential. In other regions, where environmental stress is higher, conservative tree species have a larger potential to fix carbon in their biomass.
Materias Unesco
3106 Ciencia Forestal
ISSN
0028-0836
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SI
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The EAN common gardens were installed thanks to the financial support of the REINFFORCE project (INTERREG Atlantic Area; FCT grant number PD/BD/52405/2013 and 2008-1/005)
Some of the EAN common gardens were then supported by European funding (LIFE IP CLIMAZ), national funding (Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom) or regional funding (Nouvelle Aquitaine region (France), Euskadi region (Spain), Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute (iuFOR; Spain)
The TDN common gardens were installed and monitored thanks to the financial support of different national agencies: the German Research Foundation (grants Ei 862/29-1, Ei 862/31-1, project no. 439223434) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv; grants DFG—FZT 118, 202548816); the BIOTREE experiment has been established by the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena, Germany, and its data collection in 2019 was supported by a grant to M.S.-L. by the German Research Foundation (DFG project number 439223434); the USA National Science Foundations (grants DEB-1234162, DEB−1831944, DEB-2106014, DEB-2044406); the USA NSERC-Discovery (grant RGPIN-2018-05201); and the Walloon Forest Service of Belgium
Other common gardens were supported by different funding, such as the AnaEE infrastructure (grant ANR-11-INBS-0001AnaEE-Services; France), the SoilSolution project (grant 41007-00210400; Finland), the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen and the Silva Nova project (grant NNF20OC0059948; Denmark)
D.L.G. was supported by the EU Horizon project EXCELLENTIA (grant number 101087262) at Mendel University in Brno during the manuscript preparation phase
This study was funded by the CARTON project (grant ANR-19-CE32-0006), supported by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Some of the EAN common gardens were then supported by European funding (LIFE IP CLIMAZ), national funding (Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom) or regional funding (Nouvelle Aquitaine region (France), Euskadi region (Spain), Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute (iuFOR; Spain)
The TDN common gardens were installed and monitored thanks to the financial support of different national agencies: the German Research Foundation (grants Ei 862/29-1, Ei 862/31-1, project no. 439223434) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv; grants DFG—FZT 118, 202548816); the BIOTREE experiment has been established by the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena, Germany, and its data collection in 2019 was supported by a grant to M.S.-L. by the German Research Foundation (DFG project number 439223434); the USA National Science Foundations (grants DEB-1234162, DEB−1831944, DEB-2106014, DEB-2044406); the USA NSERC-Discovery (grant RGPIN-2018-05201); and the Walloon Forest Service of Belgium
Other common gardens were supported by different funding, such as the AnaEE infrastructure (grant ANR-11-INBS-0001AnaEE-Services; France), the SoilSolution project (grant 41007-00210400; Finland), the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen and the Silva Nova project (grant NNF20OC0059948; Denmark)
D.L.G. was supported by the EU Horizon project EXCELLENTIA (grant number 101087262) at Mendel University in Brno during the manuscript preparation phase
This study was funded by the CARTON project (grant ANR-19-CE32-0006), supported by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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