@article{fdi:010037630,
  title = {{C}ontinental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across {A}mazonia},
  author = {{T}er {S}teege, {H}. and {P}itman, {N}.{C}.{A}. and {P}hillips, {O}.{L}. and {C}have, {J}. and {S}abatier, {D}aniel and {D}uque, {A}. and {M}olino, {J}ean-{F}ran{\c{c}}ois and {P}r{\'e}vost, {M}arie-{F}ran{\c{c}}oise and {S}pichiger, {R}. and {C}astellanos, {H}. and {V}on {H}ildebrand, {P}. and {V}asquez, {R}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}he world's greatest terrestrial stores of biodiversity and carbon are found in the forests of northern {S}outh {A}merica, where large-scale biogeographic patterns and processes have recently begun to be described(1-4). {S}even of the nine countries with territory in the {A}mazon basin and the {G}uiana shield have carried out large-scale forest inventories, but such massive data sets have been little exploited by tropical plant ecologists(5-8). {A}lthough forest inventories often lack the species-level identifications favoured by tropical plant ecologists, their consistency of measurement and vast spatial coverage make them ideally suited for numerical analyses at large scales, and a valuable resource to describe the still poorly understood spatial variation of biomass, diversity, community composition and forest functioning across the {S}outh {A}merican tropics(9). {H}ere we show, by using the seven forest inventories complemented with trait and inventory data collected elsewhere, two dominant gradients in tree composition and function across the {A}mazon, one paralleling a major gradient in soil fertility and the other paralleling a gradient in dry season length. {T}he data set also indicates that the dominance of {F}abaceae in the {G}uiana shield is not necessarily the result of root adaptations to poor soils ( nodulation or ectomycorrhizal associations) but perhaps also the result of their remarkably high seed mass there as a potential adaptation to low rates of disturbance.},
  keywords = {},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{N}ature},
  volume = {443},
  numero = {7110},
  pages = {444--447},
  ISSN = {0028-0836},
  year = {2006},
  DOI = {10.1038/nature05134},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010037630},
}