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 …

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

MA Mouchet, S Villéger, NWH Mason… - Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Indices quantifying the functional aspect of biodiversity are essential in understanding
relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and environmental constraints …

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

JS Joswig, C Wirth, MC Schuman, J Kattge… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access

J Kattge, G Bönisch, S Díaz, S Lavorel… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

The global spectrum of plant form and function

S Díaz, J Kattge, JHC Cornelissen, IJ Wright, S Lavorel… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Earth is home to a remarkable diversity of plant forms and life histories, yet comparatively
few essential trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable in today's terrestrial …

[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 …

Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

J Drescher, K Rembold, K Allen… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and
the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary …

New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology

S Villéger, NWH Mason, D Mouillot - Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Functional diversity is increasingly identified as an important driver of ecosystem functioning.
Various indices have been proposed to measure the functional diversity of a community, but …

TRY–a global database of plant traits

J Kattge, S Diaz, S Lavorel, IC Prentice… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Do tree species influence soil carbon stocks in temperate and boreal forests?

L Vesterdal, N Clarke, BD Sigurdsson… - Forest Ecology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on tree species effects on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is scattered
and there have been few attempts to synthesize results for forest floor and mineral soil C …