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@ARTICLE{AguirreGutirrez:1040397,
      author       = {Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús and Rifai, Sami W. and Deng,
                      Xiongjie and ter Steege, Hans and Thomson, Eleanor and
                      Corral-Rivas, Jose Javier and Guimaraes, Aretha Franklin and
                      Muller, Sandra and Klipel, Joice and Fauset, Sophie and
                      Resende, Angelica F. and Wallin, Göran and Joly, Carlos A.
                      and Abernethy, Katharine and Adu-Bredu, Stephen and
                      Alexandre Silva, Celice and de Oliveira, Edmar Almeida and
                      Almeida, Danilo R. A. and Alvarez-Davila, Esteban and Asner,
                      Gregory P. and Baker, Timothy R. and Benchimol, Maíra and
                      Bentley, Lisa Patrick and Berenguer, Erika and Blanc, Lilian
                      and Bonal, Damien and Bordin, Kauane and Borges de Lima,
                      Robson and Both, Sabine and Cabezas Duarte, Jaime and
                      Cardoso, Domingos and de Lima, Haroldo C. and Cavalheiro,
                      Larissa and Cernusak, Lucas A. and dos Santos Prestes,
                      Nayane Cristina C. and da Silva Zanzini, Antonio Carlos and
                      da Silva, Ricardo José and dos Santos Alves da Silva,
                      Robson and de Andrade Iguatemy, Mariana and de Sousa
                      Oliveira, Tony César and Dechant, Benjamin and Derroire,
                      Géraldine and Dexter, Kyle G. and Rodrigues, Domingos J.
                      and Espírito-Santo, Mário and Silva, Letícia Fernandes
                      and Domingues, Tomas Ferreira and Ferreira, Joice and Simon,
                      Marcelo Fragomeni and Girardin, Cécile A. J. and Hérault,
                      Bruno and Jeffery, Kathryn J. and Kalpuzha Ashtamoorthy,
                      Sreejith and Kavidapadinjattathil Sivadasan, Arunkumar and
                      Klitgaard, Bente and Laurance, William F. and Dan, Maurício
                      Lima and Magnusson, William E. and Campos-Filho, Eduardo
                      Malta and Manoel dos Santos, Rubens and Manzatto, Angelo
                      Gilberto and Silveira, Marcos and Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur
                      and Martin, Roberta E. and Vieira, Daniel Luis Mascia and
                      Metzker, Thiago and Milliken, William and Moonlight, Peter
                      and Moraes de Seixas, Marina Maria and Morandi, Paulo S. and
                      Muscarella, Robert and Nava-Miranda, María Guadalupe and
                      Nyirambangutse, Brigitte and Silva, Jhonathan Oliveira and
                      Oliveras Menor, Imma and Francisco Pena Rodrigues, Pablo
                      José and Pereira de Oliveira, Cinthia and Pereira Zanzini,
                      Lucas and Peres, Carlos A. and Punjayil, Vignesh and
                      Quesada, Carlos A. and Réjou-Méchain, Maxime and Riutta,
                      Terhi and Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo and Rosa, Clarissa and
                      Salinas, Norma and Bergamin, Rodrigo Scarton and Marimon,
                      Beatriz Schwantes and Shenkin, Alexander and Silva
                      Rodrigues, Priscyla Maria and Figueiredo, Axa Emanuelle
                      Simões and Garcia, Queila Souza and Spósito, Tereza and
                      Storck-Tonon, Danielle and Sullivan, Martin J. P. and
                      Svátek, Martin and Vieira Santiago, Wagner Tadeu and Arn
                      Teh, Yit and Theruvil Parambil Sivan, Prasad and Nascimento,
                      Marcelo Trindade and Veenendaal, Elmar and Zo-Bi, Irie
                      Casimir and Dago, Marie Ruth and Traoré, Soulemane and
                      Patacca, Marco and Badouard, Vincyane and de Padua Chaves e
                      Carvalho, Samuel and White, Lee J. T. and Zhang-Zheng,
                      Huanyuan and Zibera, Etienne and Zwerts, Joeri Alexander and
                      Burslem, David F. R. P. and Silman, Miles and Chave,
                      Jérôme and Enquist, Brian J. and Barlow, Jos and Phillips,
                      Oliver L. and Coomes, David A. and Malhi, Yadvinder},
      title        = {{C}anopy functional trait variation across {E}arth’s
                      tropical forests},
      journal      = {Nature},
      volume       = {641},
      number       = {8061},
      issn         = {0028-0836},
      address      = {London [u.a.]},
      publisher    = {Nature Publ. Group},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2025-01877},
      pages        = {129 - 136},
      year         = {2025},
      abstract     = {Tropical forest canopies are the biosphere’s most
                      concentrated atmospheric interface for carbon, water and
                      energy. However, in most Earth System Models, the diverse
                      and heterogeneous tropical forest biome is represented as a
                      largely uniform ecosystem with either a singular or a small
                      number of fixed canopy ecophysiological properties. This
                      situation arises, in part, from a lack of understanding
                      about how and why the functional properties of tropical
                      forest canopies vary geographically. Here, by combining
                      field-collected data from more than 1,800 vegetation plots
                      and tree traits with satellite remote-sensing, terrain,
                      climate and soil data, we predict variation across 13
                      morphological, structural and chemical functional traits of
                      trees, and use this to compute and map the functional
                      diversity of tropical forests. Our findings reveal that the
                      tropical Americas, Africa and Asia tend to occupy different
                      portions of the total functional trait space available
                      across tropical forests. Tropical American forests are
                      predicted to have $40\%$ greater functional richness than
                      tropical African and Asian forests. Meanwhile, African
                      forests have the highest functional $divergence—32\%$ and
                      $7\%$ higher than that of tropical American and Asian
                      forests, respectively. An uncertainty analysis highlights
                      priority regions for further data collection, which would
                      refine and improve these maps. Our predictions represent a
                      ground-based and remotely enabled global analysis of how and
                      why the functional traits of tropical forest canopies vary
                      across space.},
      cin          = {IBG-2},
      ddc          = {500},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
      pnm          = {2171 - Biological and environmental resources for
                      sustainable use (POF4-217)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2171},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      doi          = {10.1038/s41586-025-08663-2},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1040397},
}