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Título: | Scale matters: fire–vegetation feedbacks are needed to explain tropical tree cover at the local scale |
Autor: | Pausas, J. G. CSIC ORCID ; Dantas, Vinícius de L. | Palabras clave: | Fire Savannas Forests Scale Tropical ecosystems Vegetation feedback processes |
Fecha de publicación: | abr-2017 | Editor: | John Wiley & Sons | Citación: | Global Ecology and Biogeography 26(4): 395-399 (2017) | Resumen: | At a broad (regional to global) spatial scale, tropical vegetation is controlled by climate; at the local scale, it is believed to be determined by interactions between disturbance, vegetation and local conditions (soil and topography) through feedback processes. It has recently been suggested that strong fire–vegetation feedback processes may not be needed to explain tree‐cover patterns in tropical ecosystems and that climate–fire determinism is an alternative possibility. This conclusion was based on the fact that it is possible to reproduce observed patterns in tropical regions (e.g. a trimodal frequency distribution of tree cover) using a simple model that does not explicitly incorporate fire–vegetation feedback processes. We argue that these two mechanisms (feedbacks versus fire–climate control) operate at different spatial and temporal scales; it is not possible to evaluate the role of a process acting at fine scales (e.g. fire–vegetation feedbacks) using a model designed to reproduce regional‐scale pattern (scale mismatch). While the distributions of forest and savannas are partially determined by climate, many studies are providing evidence that the most parsimonious explanation for their environmental overlaps is the existence of feedback processes. Climate is unlikely to be an alternative to feedback processes; rather, climate and fire–vegetation feedbacks are complementary processes at different spatial and temporal scales | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12562 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/182916 | DOI: | 10.1111/geb.12562 | ISSN: | 1466-822X | E-ISSN: | 1466-8238 |
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