Data from: Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects

• Indirect climate risks for tree fecundity that come through variation in size and growth (climate-conditions interactions; CCI) are not currently part of models used to anticipate forest regeneration.
  
  Yet CCI may be among the most-important mechanisms needed to accurately predict forest responses to climate change. Meta-analyses of trends and species distribution models to predict them will be misleading if responses depend on the condition of individual trees.
  
  A synthesis of tree species in North America shows that CCI dominate through two pathways, i) effects of growth on fecundity that depend on climate, and ii) effects of climate that depend on tree size. Because fecundity declines in large trees, climate changes that stimulate growth move small trees into more fecund and large trees into less fecund size classes. There is a biogeographic divide to this CCI, reducing fecundity in the West and increasing it in the East. Continental-scale responses to climate change are thus dominated by interactions at the individual scale, highlighting the importance of ecosystem management that considers multiple demographic rates. ... [Read More]

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215 files (28 MB)

Data Citation

• Clark, J.S., Andrus, R., Aubry-Kientz, M., Bergeron, Y., Bogdziewicz, M., Bragg, D.C., Brockway, D., Cleavitt, N.L., Cohen, S., Courbaud, B., Daley, R., Das, A.J., Dietze, M., Fahey, T.J., Fer, I., Franklin, J.F., Gehring, C.A., Gilbert, G.S., Greenberg, C.H., ... Zlotin, R. (2020). Data from: Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects. Duke Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4348ph5t

Creator

• Zhu, K.
• Zlotin, R.
• Veblen, T.T.
• Bergeron, Y.
• Whitham, T.G.
• Myers, J.A.
• Daley, R.
• Moore, C.M.
• Kilner, Christopher L.
• Rodman, K.C.
• Whipple, A.V.
• Clark, James S.
• Gilbert, G.S.
• Schlesinger, William
• Aubry-Kientz, M.
• Hille Ris Lambers, J.
• Parmenter, R.
• Franklin, J.F.
• Kunstler, G.
• Legg, K.L.
• Greenberg, C.H.
• Reid, Chantal
• Ibanez, I.
• Das, A.J.
• Pearson, S.
• Fer, I.
• Koenig, W.D.
• Poulton-Kamakura, Renata
• Courbaud, B.
• Lutz, J.A.
• Johnstone, J.
• Knops, J.
• Stephenson, N.L.
• Guo, Q.
• Andrus, R.
• Redmond, M.D.
• Bragg, D.C.
• Cohen, S.
• Nunez, C.
• Brockway, D.
• Moran, E.
• Shanahan, E.
• Wion, A.P.
• Sutton, Samantha
• Bogdziewicz, M.
• Scher, C. Lane
• Luongo, Jordan
• Macias, D.
• Ready, Ethan
• LaMontagne, J.M.
• Gehring, C.A.
• Sharma, Shubi
• Swift, Maggie
• Dietze, M.
• Steele, M.
• Cleavitt, N.L.
• Schwantes, Amanada
• Messaoud, Y.
• Myers, O.B.
• Swenson, Jennifer J.
• McIntire, E.J.
• Fahey, T.J.

DOI

• 10.7924/r4348ph5t

Subject

• Trend attribution
• Indirect climate effects
• Seeds--Production (Biology)
• Climatic changes
• Forest transformation

Publication Date

• October 8, 2020

ARK

• ark:/87924/r4348ph5t

Affiliation

• Nicholas School of the Environment
• Statistical Science

Publisher

• Duke Research Data Repository

Collection Dates

• 1960 - 2020

Language

• English

Type

• Dataset

Format

• RDATA
• TXT
• CSV

Related Materials

• Clark, J.S., C.L. Nuñez, and B. Tomasek. 2019. Foodwebs based on unreliable foundations: spatio-temporal masting merged with consumer movement, storage, and diet. Ecological Monographs, 00( 00):e01381. 10.1002/ecm.1381.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1381
• Clark, J.S., Andrus, R., Aubry-Kientz, M. et al. Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects. Nat Commun 12, 1242 (2021).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20836-3

Funding Agency

• The Belmont Forum
• Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
• National Science Foundation
• Make Our Planet Great Again
• NASA

Grant Number

• AIST16-0052
• 1854976
• AIST18-0063
• DEB-1754443

Contact

• James Clark: jimclark@duke.edu, ORCID: 0000-0002-5677-9733

License

• Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal

Title

• Data from: Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects

License

• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Repository

• Duke Research Data Repository