Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest

© 2019 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2019 New Phytologist Trust.

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Veröffentlicht in:The New phytologist. - 1979. - 225(2020), 5 vom: 01. März, Seite 1936-1944
1. Verfasser: Yanoviak, Stephen P (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gora, Evan M, Bitzer, Phillip M, Burchfield, Jeffrey C, Muller-Landau, Helene C, Detto, Matteo, Paton, Steven, Hubbell, Stephen P
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The New phytologist
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Panama disturbance lightning mortality tree tropical forest dynamics
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520 |a The mortality rates of large trees are critical to determining carbon stocks in tropical forests, but the mechanisms of tropical tree mortality remain poorly understood. Lightning strikes thousands of tropical trees every day, but is commonly assumed to be a minor agent of tree mortality in most tropical forests. We use the first systematic quantification of lightning-caused mortality to show that lightning is a major cause of death for the largest trees in an old-growth lowland forest in Panama. A novel lightning strike location system together with field surveys of strike sites revealed that, on average, each strike directly kills 3.5 trees (> 10 cm diameter) and damages 11.4 more. Given lightning frequency data from the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network and historical total tree mortality rates for this site, we conclude that lightning accounts for 40.5% of the mortality of large trees (> 60 cm diameter) in the short term and probably contributes to an additional 9.0% of large tree deaths over the long term. Any changes in cloud-to-ground lightning frequency due to climatic change will alter tree mortality rates; projected 25-50% increases in lightning frequency would increase large tree mortality rates in this forest by 9-18%. The results of this study indicate that lightning plays a critical and previously underestimated role in tropical forest dynamics and carbon cycling 
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