Wen-Yong Guo
High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure
Guo, Wen-Yong; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Schrodt, Franziska; Eiserhardt, Wolf L.; Maitner, Brian S.; Merow, Cory; Violle, Cyrille; Anand, Madhur; Belluau, Michaël; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Byun, Chaeho; Catford, Jane A.; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Chacón-Madrigal, Eduardo; Ciccarelli, Daniela; Cornelissen, J. Hans C.; Dang-Le, Anh Tuan; de Frutos, Angel; Dias, Arildo S.; Giroldo, Aelton B.; Guo, Kun; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.; Hattingh, Wesley; He, Tianhua; Hietz, Peter; Hough-Snee, Nate; Jansen, Steven; Kattge, Jens; Klein, Tamir; Komac, Benjamin; Kraft, Nathan J. B.; Kramer, Koen; Lavorel, Sandra; Lusk, Christopher H.; Martin, Adam R.; Mencuccini, Maurizio; Michaletz, Sean T.; Minden, Vanessa; Mori, Akira S.; Niinemets, Ülo; Onoda, Yusuke; Peñuelas, Josep; Pillar, Valério D.; Pisek, Jan; Robroek, Bjorn J. M.; Schamp, Brandon; Slot, Martijn; Sosinski, Ênio Egon; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.; Thiffault, Nelson; van Bodegom, Peter; van der Plas, Fons; Wright, Ian J.; Xu, Wu-Bing; Zheng, Jingming; Enquist...
Authors
Josep M. Serra-Diaz
Dr FRANZISKA SCHRODT FRANZISKA.SCHRODT1@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Wolf L. Eiserhardt
Brian S. Maitner
Cory Merow
Cyrille Violle
Madhur Anand
Michaël Belluau
Hans Henrik Bruun
Chaeho Byun
Jane A. Catford
Bruno E. L. Cerabolini
Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal
Daniela Ciccarelli
J. Hans C. Cornelissen
Anh Tuan Dang-Le
Angel de Frutos
Arildo S. Dias
Aelton B. Giroldo
Kun Guo
Alvaro G. Gutiérrez
Wesley Hattingh
Tianhua He
Peter Hietz
Nate Hough-Snee
Steven Jansen
Jens Kattge
Tamir Klein
Benjamin Komac
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Koen Kramer
Sandra Lavorel
Christopher H. Lusk
Adam R. Martin
Maurizio Mencuccini
Sean T. Michaletz
Vanessa Minden
Akira S. Mori
Ülo Niinemets
Yusuke Onoda
Josep Peñuelas
Valério D. Pillar
Jan Pisek
Bjorn J. M. Robroek
Brandon Schamp
Martijn Slot
Ênio Egon Sosinski
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia
Nelson Thiffault
Peter van Bodegom
Fons van der Plas
Ian J. Wright
Wu-Bing Xu
Jingming Zheng
Brian J. Enquist
Jens-Christian Svenning
Abstract
Safeguarding Earth’s tree diversity is a conservation priority due to the importance of trees for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services such as carbon sequestration. Here, we improve the foundation for effective conservation of global tree diversity by analyzing a recently developed database of tree species covering 46,752 species. We quantify range protection and anthropogenic pressures for each species and develop conservation priorities across taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity dimensions. We also assess the effectiveness of several influential proposed conservation prioritization frameworks to protect the top 17% and top 50% of tree priority areas. We find that an average of 50.2% of a tree species’ range occurs in 110-km grid cells without any protected areas (PAs), with 6,377 small-range tree species fully unprotected, and that 83% of tree species experience nonnegligible human pressure across their range on average. Protecting high-priority areas for the top 17% and 50% priority thresholds would increase the average protected proportion of each tree species’ range to 65.5% and 82.6%, respectively, leaving many fewer species (2,151 and 2,010) completely unprotected. The priority areas identified for trees match well to the Global 200 Ecoregions framework, revealing that priority areas for trees would in large part also optimize protection for terrestrial biodiversity overall. Based on range estimates for >46,000 tree species, our findings show that a large proportion of tree species receive limited protection by current PAs and are under substantial human pressure. Improved protection of biodiversity overall would also strongly benefit global tree diversity.
Citation
Guo, W., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W. L., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., …Svenning, J. (2022). High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(25), Article e2026733119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026733119
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 13, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 16, 2022 |
Publication Date | Jun 21, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Oct 17, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 7, 2023 |
Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
Print ISSN | 0027-8424 |
Electronic ISSN | 1091-6490 |
Publisher | National Academy of Sciences |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 119 |
Issue | 25 |
Article Number | e2026733119 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026733119 |
Keywords | Multidisciplinary |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/8501503 |
Publisher URL | https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2026733119 |
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