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 …

Forest stand structure and functioning: Current knowledge and future challenges

A Ali - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
Species diversity is a part of (forest) stand structure but tree diameter diversity and height
diversity alone or combined are typically defined as stand structural diversity or complexity …

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 …

A novel entropy-based method to quantify forest canopy structural complexity from multiplatform lidar point clouds

X Liu, Q Ma, X Wu, T Hu, Z Liu, L Liu, Q Guo… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest canopy structural complexity (CSC) describes the three-dimensional (3D)
arrangement of canopy elements, and has become an emergent forest attribute mediating …

Climate and soils determine aboveground biomass indirectly via species diversity and stand structural complexity in tropical forests

A Ali, SL Lin, JK He, FM Kong, JH Yu… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Theoretical and empirical studies have suggested that climate and soils are the main drivers
of biodiversity, stand structure and aboveground biomass in natural forests. Yet, the direct …

Divergent above‐and below‐ground biodiversity pathways mediate disturbance impacts on temperate forest multifunctionality

Z Yuan, A Ali, M Loreau, F Ding, S Liu… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity plays a fundamental role in provisioning and regulating forest ecosystem
functions and services. Above‐ground (plants) and below‐ground (soil microbes) …

Stand structure determines aboveground biomass across temperate forest types and species mixture along a local-scale elevational gradient

F Ullah, H Gilani, A Sanaei, K Hussain, A Ali - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Greater variation in stand structure (ie, individual tree size variation and stand density) is
thought to promote aboveground biomass (AGB) better than species richness due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Remotely sensed carbon content: The role of tree composition and tree diversity

CIB Wallis, AL Crofts, D Inamdar… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Optical remote sensing permits modeling of variables related to forest biomass, which is a
critical determinant of carbon (C) stocks and fluxes. Plant functional characteristics can be …

Temporal changes in Mediterranean forest ecosystem services are driven by stand development, rather than by climate-related disturbances

JV Roces-Díaz, J Vayreda, M De Cáceres… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mediterranean Region constitutes a biodiversity hotspot and its forests have
provided multiple ecosystem services (ES) to human societies for millennia. In the last …

Topography and forest diversity facets regulate overstory and understory aboveground biomass in a temperate forest of South Korea

JH Chun, A Ali, CB Lee - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Diversity-biomass studies across (sub-) tropical forest strata have been explored, but our
understanding on how multiple facets of forest diversity and abiotic factors regulate …