Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

Multispecies tree planting has long been applied in forestry and landscape restoration in the
hope of providing better timber production and ecosystem services; however, a systematic …

Forests constitute important ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. However, how trees and
environmental conditions interact to determine the amount of organic carbon stored in forest …

Ecological research conducted over the past five decades has shown that increasing tree
species richness at forest stands can improve tree resistance to insect pest damage …

Stand structure can strongly influence forest growth and other processes, such as the water
balance, carbon partitioning, nutrient cycling and light dynamics. However, individual …

The increasing disturbances in monocultures around the world are testimony to their
instability under global change. Many studies have claimed that temporal stability of …

There is increasing evidence that mixed‐species forests can provide multiple ecosystem
services at a higher level than their monospecific counterparts. However, most studies …

Global change increasingly threatens nature, endangering the ecosystem services human
wellbeing depends upon. Biodiversity potentially mediates these impacts by providing …

Past failures of monocultures, caused by wind-throw or insect damages, and ongoing
climate change currently strongly stimulate research into mixed-species stands. So far, the …