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Plants play stronger effects on soil fungal than bacterial communities and co-occurrence network structures in a subtropical tree diversity experiment
Increasing biodiversity loss profoundly affects community structure and ecosystem functioning. Therefore, revealing the mechanisms associated with community assembly and co-occurrence...
In Paper, Jun 01, 2022Niche partitioning in nitrogen uptake among subtropical tree species enhances biomass production
The relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning has become one of the key topics in ecological studies. Niche partitioning, brought about by a complementary resourc...
In Paper, Mar 07, 2022Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment
Well insured: Forests with many tree species grow more consistently
In Paper, Dec 18, 2021Planting new forests with high functional diversity helps improve productivity
As forests age, differences in species functional traits become more important and reliable in predicting forest productivity, according to an international study led by Prof. MA Kepi...
In Paper, Nov 08, 2021Special issue: Tree Diversity Effects on Ecosystem Functioning
Although the exceptional role of forests for human well-being is undisputed and widely acknowledged (Watson et al. 2018), a global downward trend in the global forest area persists (F...
In news, Sep 04, 2021Understanding biodiversity in forests
The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany has led pioneering work on forests biodiversity and the associated nature-based services that support societies.
In news, Sep 01, 2021Phylogenetic relatedness, functional traits, and spatial scale determine herbivore co‐occurrence in a subtropical forest
Species co-occurrence can examine whether and why two or more species co-exist. However, the understanding of the relevant mechanism remains a challenging. Previous studies have sugge...
In Paper, Aug 10, 2021Tree species richness differentially affects the chemical composition of leaves, roots and root exudates in four subtropical tree species.
Plants produce thousands of compounds, collectively called the metabolome, which mediate interactions with other organisms. The metabolome of an individual plant may change according ...
In Paper, Aug 09, 2021Tree diversity and functional leaf traits drive herbivore-associated microbiomes in subtropical China.
Herbivorous insects acquire microorganisms from host plants or soil, but it remains unclear how the diversity and functional composition of host plants contribute to structuring herbi...
In Paper, Aug 08, 2021What shapes ground beetle assemblages in a tree species-rich subtropical forest?
As woody plants provide much of the trophic basis for food webs in forests their species richness, but also stand age and numerous further variables such as vegetation structure, soil...
In Paper, Aug 07, 2021Featured
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Plants play stronger effects on soil fungal than bacterial communities and co-occurrence network structures in a subtropical tree diversity experiment
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Niche partitioning in nitrogen uptake among subtropical tree species enhances biomass production
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Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment
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Planting new forests with high functional diversity helps improve productivity
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Special issue: Tree Diversity Effects on Ecosystem Functioning
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Understanding biodiversity in forests
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Phylogenetic relatedness, functional traits, and spatial scale determine herbivore co‐occurrence in a subtropical forest
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Tree species richness differentially affects the chemical composition of leaves, roots and root exudates in four subtropical tree species.
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Tree diversity and functional leaf traits drive herbivore-associated microbiomes in subtropical China.
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What shapes ground beetle assemblages in a tree species-rich subtropical forest?
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Soil fungi promote biodiversity–productivity relationships in experimental communities of young trees
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Plant and microbial pathways driving plant diversity effects on soil carbon accumulation in subtropical forest
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The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning
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Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning
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Tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity shape the forest soil microbiota
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Tree species richness promotes an early increase of stand structural complexity in young subtropical plantations
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More diverse tree communities promote foliar fungal pathogen diversity, but decrease infestation rates per tree species, in a subtropical biodiversity experiment
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Local Tree Diversity Suppresses Foliar Fungal Infestation and Decreases Morphological but Not Molecular Richness in a Young Subtropical Forest
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Species identity and composition effects on community productivity in a subtropical forest
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Drivers of understorey biomass: tree species identity is more important than richness in a young forest
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Canopy Closure Retards Fine Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Regenerating Forests
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Plant identity strongly structures the root-associated fungal community in a diverse subtropical forest
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Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest
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Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest
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Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: The role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing
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Tree species richness modulates water supply in the local tree neighbourhood: evidence from wood δ13C signatures in a large-scale forest experiment
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9 PhD positions in forest biodiversity research within the International Research Training Group TreeDì (GRK 2324)
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Host functional and phylogenetic composition rather than host diversity structure plant-herbivore networks
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Genetic richness affects trait variation but not community productivity in a tree diversity experiment
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Neighbourhood diversity mitigates drought impacts on tree growth
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Growth-trait relationships depend on species richness in subtropical forest
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Neighbour species richness and local structural variability modulate aboveground allocation patterns and crown morphology of individual trees
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Herbivore phylogenetic diversity can be affected by plant diversity loss
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Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems
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Tree diversity increases robustness of multi-trophic interactions
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Species-rich forests store twice as much carbon as monocultures
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Species-rich forests better compensate environmental impacts
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Neighbourhood interactions drive overyielding in mixed-species tree communities
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