Browsing by Author "Salgado-Negret, Beatriz"

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    A morphological database for 606 Colombian bird species
    (2018) Montoya, Paola; Gonzalez, Mailyn A.; Tenorio, Elkin A.; Pablo Lopez-Ordonez, Juan; Pinto Gomez, Alejandro; Cueva, Diego; Acevedo, Aldemar; Angarita Yanes, Camilo; Arango Martinez, Hector Manuel; Armesto Sanguino, Luis Orlando; Betancur, Jefry S.; Caguazango Castro, Angela; Calderon Leyton, Jhon Jairo; Viviana Calpa-Anaguano, Edna; Cardenas-Posada, Ghislaine; Castano Diaz, Michael; Chaparro-Herrera, Sergio; Diago-Munoz, Nicolas; Franco Espinosa, Laura; Gomez Bernal, Luis German; Gonzalez-Zapata, Fanny L.; Gutierrez Zamora, Eduardo Aquiles; Gutierrez-Zuluaga, Ana M.; Lizcano Jimenez, Robinson Stivel; Lopera-Salazar, Andrea; Martinez Alvarado, Dariel; Maya Giron, Ana Maria; Medina, Wilderson; Montealegre-Talero, Carolina; Parra, Juan L.; Perez-Pena, Sebastian; Ramirez Ramirez, Francis; Reyes, Julian; Fabio Rivera-Gutierrez, Hector; Rosero Mora, Yuri; Trujillo-Torres, Carlos M.; Camilo Vidal-Maldonado, Cristian; Salgado-Negret, Beatriz
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    Functional traits variation explains the distribution of Aextoxicon punctatum (Aextoxicaceae) in pronounced moisture gradients within fog-dependent forest fragments
    (2015) Salgado-Negret, Beatriz; Canessa, Rafaella; Valladares, Fernando; Armesto, Juan J.; Perez, Fernanda
    Climate change and fragmentation are major threats to world forests. Understanding how functional traits related to drought tolerance change across small-scale, pronounced moisture gradients in fragmented forests is important to predict species' responses to these threats. In the case of Aextoxicon punctatum, a dominant canopy tree in fog-dependent rain forest patches in semiarid Chile, we explored how the magnitude, variability and correlation patterns of leaf and xylem vessel traits and hydraulic conductivity varied across soil moisture (SM) gradients established within and among forest patches of different size, which are associated with differences in tree establishment and mortality patterns. Leaf traits varied across soil-moisture gradients produced by fog interception. Trees growing at drier leeward edges showed higher leaf mass per area, trichome and stomatal density than trees from the wetter core and windward zones. In contrast, xylem vessel traits (vessels diameter and density) did not vary producing loss of hydraulic conductivity at drier leeward edges. We also detected higher levels of phenotypic integration and variability at leeward edges. The ability of A. puncta turn to modify leaf traits in response to differences in SM availability established over short distances (<500 m) facilitates its persistence in contrasting microhabitats within forest patches. However, xylem anatomy showed limited plasticity, which increases cavitation risk at leeward edges. Greater patch fragmentation, together with fluctuations in irradiance and SM in small patches, could result in higher risk of drought-related tree mortality, with profound impacts on hydrological balances at the ecosystem scale.