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 …

Biodiversity and ecosystem services in forest ecosystems: a research agenda for applied forest ecology

AS Mori, KP Lertzman… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society,
forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our …

Tree functional traits, forest biomass, and tree species diversity interact with site properties to drive forest soil carbon

L Augusto, A Boča - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

A review of processes behind diversity—productivity relationships in forests

DI Forrester, J Bauhus - Current Forestry Reports, 2016 - Springer
Through complementarity interactions, mixed-species forests can be more productive than
monocultures, and this effect can increase with tree-species richness. However, this is not …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

S Ratcliffe, C Wirth, T Jucker, F van Der Plas… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystem functioning is generally well
accepted. However, most evidence comes from small‐scale studies, and scaling‐up …

Long-term response of forest productivity to climate change is mostly driven by change in tree species composition

X Morin, L Fahse, H Jactel, M Scherer-Lorenzen… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Climate change affects ecosystem functioning directly through impacts on plant physiology,
resulting in changes of global productivity. However, climate change has also an indirect …

Characterization of the structure, dynamics, and productivity of mixed-species stands: review and perspectives

M Del Río, H Pretzsch, I Alberdi, K Bielak… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
The growth and yield of mixed-species stands has become an important topic of research
since there are certain advantages of this type of forest as regards functions and services …

Effects of stand age, richness and density on productivity in subtropical forests in China

S Ouyang, W **ang, X Wang, W **ao, L Chen… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Forest productivity may be determined not only by biodiversity but also by environmental
factors and stand structure attributes. However, the relative importance of these factors in …

Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris–Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

M Del Río, H Pretzsch, R Ruíz‐Peinado… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing evidence that species diversity enhances the temporal stability (TS) of
community productivity in different ecosystems, although its effect at the population and tree …

Effect of tree species mixing on the size structure, density, and yield of forest stands

H Pretzsch, G Schütze - European journal of forest research, 2016 - Springer
An increasing number of studies provide evidence that mixed-species stands can overyield
monocultures. But it is still hardly understood, how the overyielding at the stand level …