文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Huang, Jihong ¹ ; Yu, Ruoyun ¹ ; Ding, Yi ¹ ; Xu, Yue ¹ ; Yao, Jie ¹ ; Zang, Runguo ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Chinese Acad Forestry, Ecol & Nat Conservat Inst, Key Lab Forest Ecol & Environm Natl Forestry & Gra, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China

2.Nanjing Forestry Univ, Coinnovat Ctr Sustainable Forestry Southern China, Nanjing 210037, Peoples R China

3.Chinese Acad Trop Agr Sci, Coconut Res Inst, Wenchang 571339, Peoples R China

关键词： woody plant; functional traits; Chinese typical forest; phylogenetic characteristics; geographical differentiation

期刊名称：FORESTS （ 影响因子：2.4； 五年影响因子：2.7 ）

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年卷期： 2024 年 15 卷 6 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Functional traits are pivotal for understanding the functional niche within plant communities. Yet, the relationship between the functional niches of typical forest plant communities across different climatic zones, as defined by functional traits, and their association with community and phylogenetic structures remains elusive. In this study, we examined 215 woody species, incorporating 11 functional traits spanning leaf economy, mechanical support, and reproductive phenology, gathered from forests in four climatic zones from tropical, subtropical, warm-temperate to cold-temperate zones in China and supplemented by the literature. We quantified the functional niche hypervolume (FNH), reflecting the multidimensional functional niche variability. We then probed into the correlation between the FNH and community and phylogenetic structures of forests. Our findings reveal that species richness significantly influences the geographic variance of functional niche space in forest vegetation across different climatic zones. Specifically, a community's species richness correlates positively with the functional niche breadth occupied by the community species. The FNH of woody plants across diverse forest types shows significant associations with both the mean phylogenetic distance (MPD) and the mean nearest phylogenetic taxon distance (MNTD) of the communities. There is a progressive increase in tropical rainforest (TF), subtropical evergreen deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest (SF), and warm-temperate coniferous broad-leaved mixed forest (WF), followed by a decline in the cold-temperate coniferous forest (CF). This pattern suggests potential environmental filtering in CF, which may constrain the spatial extent of plant functional niches. Our research underscores the substantial variability in the FNH across China's typical forest vegetation, highlighting the complex interplay between functional traits, community richness, and phylogenetic distance.