Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale

Smithsonian Institution, 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, MD 21037-0028, USA, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA, Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA, Tropical Ecology Assessment Monitoring Network, Nouabale-Ndoki National Park and Periphery, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, University of Missouri-St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), PO Box 44, Kabale, Uganda, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa Ancón, Republic of Panama, Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands, Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10460, USA, Tropical Biodiversity Section, MUSE – Museo delle Scienze, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3, 38123 Trento, Italy, Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, PO Box 99 Mang’ula, Tanzania, School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia, Center for International Forestry Research, PO Box 0113 BOCBD, Bogor 16000, Indonesia, Jardin Botanico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru ABSTRACT