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Franca J. Bongers, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Frans Bongers, Shan Li, Goddert von Oheimb, Yin Li, Anpeng Cheng, Keping Ma* and Xiaojuan Liu*. 2021. Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5: 1594-1603. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01564-3.

Yi Li, Douglas Chesters, Mingqiang Wang, Tesfaye Wubet, Andreas Schuldt, Perttu Anttonen, Pengfei Guo, Jingting Chen, Qingsong Zhou, Naili Zhang, Keping Ma, Helge Bruelheide, Chunsheng Wu* and Chaodong Zhu*. 2021. Tree diversity and functional leaf traits drive herbivore-associated microbiomes in subtropical China. Ecology and Evolution. 11(11): 6153-6166. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7434.

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Felicitas Löffler*, Andreas Schuldt, Birgitta König-Ries, Helge Bruelheide and Friederike Klan. 2021. A Test Collection for Dataset Retrieval in Biodiversity Research. Research Ideas and Outcomes. 7: e67887. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e67887.

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Maria D. Perles‐Garcia*, Matthias Kunz, Andreas Fichtner, Werner Härdtle and Goddert Oheimb. 2021. Tree species richness promotes an early increase of stand structural complexity in young subtropical plantations. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(10): 2305-2314. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13973.

Gemma Rutten*, Lydia Hönig, Rowena Schwaß, Uwe Braun, Mariem Saadani, Andreas Schuldt, Stefan G. Michalski, Helge Bruelheide and Liesje Mommer. 2021. More diverse tree communities promote foliar fungal pathogen diversity, but decrease infestation rates per tree species, in a subtropical biodiversity experiment. Journal of Ecology. 109(5): 2068-2080. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13620.

Mariem Saadani*, Lydia Hönig, Steffen Bien, Michael Koehler, Gemma Rutten, Tesfaye Wubet, Uwe Braun and Helge Bruelheide. 2021. Local tree diversity suppresses foliar fungal infestation and decreases morphological but not molecular richness in a young subtropical forest. Journal of Fungi. 7: 173. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7030173.

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Gheyur Gheyret, Hongtu Zhang, Yanpei Guo, Tongyan Liu, Yunhao Bai, Shan Li, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma and Zhiyao Tang*. 2021. Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest. Basic and Applied Ecology. 55: 74-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.02.015.

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Michaela Hildebrand*, Maria D. Perles-Garcia, Matthias Kunz, Werner Härdtle, Goddert von Oheimb and Andreas Fichtner. 2021. Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: The role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing. Basic and Applied Ecology. 50: 217-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.12.003.

Kirstin Jansen*, Goddert von Oheimb, Helge Bruelheide, Werner Hardtle and Andreas Fichtner. 2021. Tree species richness modulates water supply in the local tree neighbourhood: evidence from wood δ13C signatures in a large-scale forest experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. 288: 20203100. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.3100.