Diversity and forest productivity in a changing climate

C Ammer - New phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 50 I. Introduction 50 II. Drivers of the diversity–productivity relationship
51 III. Patterns of the diversity–productivity relationship 55 IV. Responses of mixed stands to …

Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems

F Isbell, PR Adler, N Eisenhauer, D Fornara… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural
ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially …

Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment

FJ Bongers, B Schmid, H Bruelheide… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Forest restoration increases global forest area and ecosystem services such as primary
productivity and carbon storage. How tree species functional composition impacts the …

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

Y Huang, Y Chen, N Castro-Izaguirre, M Baruffol… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in
grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to …

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

J Liang, TW Crowther, N Picard, S Wiser, M Zhou… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR; the effect of biodiversity on
ecosystem productivity) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis …

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

F Van der Plas, T Schröder-Georgi, A Weigelt… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Earth is home to over 350,000 vascular plant species that differ in their traits in innumerable
ways. A key challenge is to predict how natural or anthropogenically driven changes in the …

Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships

I Laforest-Lapointe, A Paquette, C Messier, SW Kembel - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has demonstrated links between plant
diversity and ecosystem functions such as productivity,. At other trophic levels, the plant …

Spatial complementarity in tree crowns explains overyielding in species mixtures

LJ Williams, A Paquette, J Cavender-Bares… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Deciphering the mechanisms that link biodiversity with ecosystem functions is critical to
understanding the consequences of changes in biodiversity. The hypothesis that …

[HTML][HTML] What is the potential for replacing monocultures with mixed-species stands to enhance ecosystem services in boreal forests in Fennoscandia?

S Huuskonen, T Domisch, L Finér, J Hantula… - Forest ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The boreal forests of Fennoscandia are largely dominated by Norway spruce and Scots
pine. Conifer monocultures have been favoured in forest management during the last …

Demystifying dominant species

ML Avolio, EJ Forrestel, CC Chang… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The pattern of a few abundant species and many rarer species is a defining characteristic of
communities worldwide. These abundant species are often referred to as dominant species …