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 …

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

L Poorter, MT van der Sande… - Global Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Tropical forests store 25% of global carbon and harbour 96% of the world's tree species,
but it is not clear whether this high biodiversity matters for carbon storage. Few studies have …

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

MJP Sullivan, J Talbot, SL Lewis, OL Phillips, L Qie… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Tropical forests are global centres of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many tropical
countries aspire to protect forest to fulfil biodiversity and climate mitigation policy targets, but …

Cost–benefit analysis of climate change mitigation measures in the forestry sector of Peninsular Malaysia

A Raihan, MNM Said - Earth Systems and Environment, 2022 - Springer
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been increasingly dominated by carbon dioxide (CO2) with
its negative effects on the global climatic system. Malaysia has forest land around 67% of the …

Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests

CD Philipson, MEJ Cutler, PG Brodrick, GP Asner… - Science, 2020 - science.org
More than half of all tropical forests are degraded by human impacts, leaving them
threatened with conversion to agricultural plantations and risking substantial biodiversity …

Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical C hina

H Bruelheide, K Nadrowski, T Assmann… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments address ecosystem‐level
consequences of species loss by comparing communities of high species richness with …

Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia

WA Foster, JL Snaddon, EC Turner… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The conversion of natural forest to oil palm plantation is a major current threat to the
conservation of biodiversity in South East Asia. Most animal taxa decrease in both species …

Recovery and resilience of tropical forests after disturbance

LES Cole, SA Bhagwat, KJ Willis - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
The time taken for forested tropical ecosystems to re-establish post-disturbance is of
widespread interest. Yet to date there has been no comparative study across tropical biomes …

Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

K Verheyen, M Vanhellemont, H Auge, L Baeten… - Ambio, 2016 - Springer
The area of forest plantations is increasing worldwide hel** to meet timber demand and
protect natural forests. However, with global change, monospecific plantations are …