[HTML][HTML] Tamm Review: Influence of forest management activities on soil organic carbon stocks: A knowledge synthesis

M Mayer, CE Prescott, WEA Abaker, L Augusto… - Forest Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Almost half of the total organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems is stored in forest soils.
By altering rates of input or release of C from soils, forest management activities can …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in naturally assembled communities

F Van Der Plas - Biological Reviews, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits

A Di Sacco, KA Hardwick, D Blakesley… - Global Change …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world

D Ellison, CE Morris, B Locatelli, D Sheil… - Global environmental …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national,
continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

WW Weisser, C Roscher, ST Meyer, A Ebeling… - Basic and applied …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

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 …

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 …