Tree diversity has long been described as a major driver of insect herbivory and pathogen
damage, which can cause defoliation and sometimes stunted growth of forest trees …

Scree forests with large numbers of protected plants and wildlife are seriously threatened by
climate change due to more frequent drought episodes, which cause challenges for very …

Identifying and quantifying the impacts of human activity on island plant diversity can help
inform their management. Here, we examined the spatial pattern of plant diversity across 11 …

Uninhabited islands are important for providing isolated habitats for unique biological
resources, and revealing the spatial pattern of plant diversity is of great significance for the …

Productivity in mixed forest stands is often higher than that in pure forest stands. Economic
analyses usually exclude this phenomenon. In our study, we assess the consequences of an …

Although both observational and experimental studies have shown that positive tree species
diversity–productivity relationships are predominant in global forests, weak or the lack of tree …

The pattern that a given tree species suffers less damage when growing with heterospecific
neighbors than amongst conspecific plants, ie associational resistance, is common for insect …

An increasing amount of research is focusing on comparing productivity in monospecific
versus mixed stands, although it is difficult to reach a general consensus as mixing effects …

Aims We investigated whether tree species growing in mixtures and under different water
supply would segregate their fine roots vertically, produce more fine roots overall, or only in …

National Forest Inventories (NFIs) are the primary source of information to fulfill international
requirements, such as growing stock volume. However, NFI cycles may be “out of phase” in …