Community variation in wood density along a bioclimatic gradient on a hyper-diverse tropical island

Ibanez T., Chave J., Barrabé L., Elodie B., Boutreux T., Trueba S., Vandrot H., Birnbaum P.
2016

Aims: Analyse the controversial relationship existing between wood density, precipitation, temperature and aridity, and its importance in shaping forest communities facing drought. Location: New Caledonia (SW Pacific). Methods: We sampled wood density in 1580 trees belonging to 175 species across nine sites (eight 1-ha plots) located in dry, mesic and humid forests. We tested whether wood density ...

Technologie des produits forestiers; Ecologie végétale; Physiologie et biochimie végétales; Météorologie et climatologie