Biodiversity as a solution to mitigate climate change impacts on the functioning of forest ecosystems

M Hisano, EB Searle, HYH Chen - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Forest ecosystems are critical to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through carbon
sequestration. However, climate change has affected forest ecosystem functioning in both …

Herbaceous plant diversity in forest ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms, and threats

ME Spicer, HVN Radhamoni, MC Duguid… - Plant Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Studies conducted in forests have resulted in much of the ecological theory we build upon
today. However, our basic understanding of forest ecology comes almost exclusively from …

Guidelines for a graph‐theoretic implementation of structural equation modeling

JB Grace, DR Schoolmaster Jr, GR Guntenspergen… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is increasingly being chosen by researchers as a
framework for gaining scientific insights from the quantitative analyses of data. New ideas …

[图书][B] Ecological statistics: contemporary theory and application

GA Fox, S Negrete-Yankelevich, VJ Sosa - 2015 - books.google.com
The application and interpretation of statistics are central to ecological study and practice.
Ecologists are now asking more sophisticated questions than in the past. These new …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat heterogeneity is a good predictor of boreal forest biodiversity

AM Hekkala, M Jönsson, S Kärvemo, J Strengbom… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reliable assessment measures are crucial for tracking changes in biodiversity and for
evaluating the state of biodiversity. Two of the main drivers of biodiversity are habitat …

Contrasting altitudinal patterns and co-occurrence networks of soil bacterial and fungal communities along soil depths in the cold-temperate montane forests of China

L Ji, F Shen, Y Liu, Y Yang, J Wang, W Purahong… - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil bacterial and fungal communities with different key ecological functions play important
roles in boreal forest ecosystems. Although several studies have reported on the altitudinal …

Thinning of loblolly pine plantations in subtropical Argentina: Impact on microclimate and understory vegetation

CP Trentini, PI Campanello, M Villagra, L Ritter… - Forest Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
During the last three decades, the area dedicated to tree plantations in northeast of
Argentina has increased five-fold at the expense of the native semideciduous Atlantic Forest …

Linking resource availability and heterogeneity to understorey species diversity through succession in boreal forest of Canada

P Kumar, HYH Chen, SC Thomas… - Journal of Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understorey vegetation comprises the majority of species diversity and contributes greatly to
ecosystem functioning in boreal forests. Although patterns of understorey abundance …

History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests

B Jiménez-Alfaro, M Girardello, M Chytrý… - Nature Ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
A central hypothesis of ecology states that regional diversity influences local diversity
through species-pool effects. Species pools are supposedly shaped by large-scale factors …

Greater than the sum of the parts: how the species composition in different forest strata influence ecosystem function

YH Luo, MW Cadotte, KS Burgess, J Liu… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanisms underpinning forest biodiversity‐ecosystem function relationships remain
unresolved. Yet, in heterogeneous forests, ecosystem function of different strata could be …