Plantation forests are increasing rapidly in the world in order to alleviate deforestation and
degradation of natural forests, along with providing various goods and services. While …

Stand structure can strongly influence forest growth and other processes, such as the water
balance, carbon partitioning, nutrient cycling and light dynamics. However, individual …

Forests are critical habitats for biodiversity and they are also essential for the provision of a
wide range of ecosystem services that are important to human well-being. There is …

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 …

The importance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystem functioning is generally well
accepted. However, most evidence comes from small‐scale studies, and scaling‐up …

Mixed-species forest stands are well explored in their favourable ecological, economical,
and socio-economical functions and services compared with pure stands, but still poorly …

Mixed-species forests and plantations sometimes have greater levels of ecosystem functions
and services, including productivity, than monocultures. However, this is not always the case …

While previous studies focused on tree growth in pure stands, we reveal that tree resistance
and resilience to drought stress can be modified distinctly through species mixing. Our study …

It is becoming a tendency for multispecies plantations to be promoted worldwide to enhance
carbon sequestration and provide better ecosystem services. Soil physicochemical …

Forest diversity-productivity relationships have been intensively investigated in recent
decades. However, few studies have considered the interplay between species and …