Adaptive forest management improves stand-level resilience of temperate forests under multiple stressors

A Guignabert, M Jonard, C Messier, F André… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Forests are expected to be strongly affected by modifications in climate and disturbance
regimes, threatening their ability to sustain the provision of essential services. Promoting …

Enhancing economic multifunctionality without compromising multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality via forest enrichment

LR Topanotti, JM Fuchs, M Albert, J Schick… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Enriching tree species–poor and less productive forests by introducing economically
valuable species is a strategy proposed for achieving multipurpose forest management …

Tree drought–mortality risk depends more on intrinsic species resistance than on stand species diversity

R Decarsin, J Guillemot, G Le Maire… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing tree diversity is considered a key management option to adapt forests to climate
change. However, the effect of species diversity on a forest's ability to cope with extreme …

Large-scale remote sensing reveals that tree mortality in Germany appears to be greater than previously expected

F Schiefer, S Schmidtlein, H Hartmann… - … Journal of Forest …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Global warming poses a major threat to forests and events of increased tree mortality are
observed globally. Studying tree mortality often relies on local-level observations of dieback …

Tree growth strategies mediate drought resistance in species-diverse forests

J Guillemot, N Martin-StPaul - Tree Physiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This scientific commentary refers to 'Water status dynamics and drought tolerance of juvenile
European beech, Douglas fir and Norway spruce trees as dependent on neighbourhood …

Quantifying the impact of climate change and forest management on Swedish forest ecosystems using the dynamic vegetation model LPJ‐GUESS

J Bergkvist, F Lagergren, MR Islam, D Wårlind… - Earth's …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Boreal and temperate forests are undergoing structural, compositional and functional
changes in response to increasing temperatures, changes in precipitation, and rising CO2 …

Plant–soil feedback drives the 'nursing effect'on Sitka spruce

Y Zhou, T Tao, F Cox, D Johnson - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The productivity of economically valuable focal trees in mixtures is often improved by
inclusion of lower‐value nursing species, but the mechanisms underpinning such effects are …

Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning

J Koricheva, KE Barton, JA Felix, A Cooper, J Jensen… - Oikos, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Plant diversity is known to influence ecosystem functioning, but the strength and direction of
this relationship vary considerably among studies, most of which have a short duration. In …

Unleashing the Power of Plant Structural and Functional Diversity: From Common Observations to Theory and Management Models

F Bravo, W van der Werf, R Tognetti… - Food and Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
New approaches for managing agricultural and forestry systems are needed to bring back
inputs to levels that are within planetary boundaries and make greater and better use of …

Diversity-enhanced canopy space occupation and leaf functional diversity jointly promote overyielding in tropical tree communities

T Ray, A Fichtner, M Kunz, T Proß, PM Bradler… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the mechanisms that drive biodiversity-productivity relationships is critical for
guiding forest restoration. Although complementarity among trees in the canopy space has …