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1. Trees suppress growth but sustain water consumption in response to flash drought in a subtropical forest

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2. Cascading effects of tree diversity loss on herbivore-parasitoid interactions

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3. Within-individual leaf trait response to local light availability and biodiversity in a subtropical forest experiment

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4. Improving forest ecosystem functions by optimizing tree species spatial arrangement

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5. Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest

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6. Ecosystem consequences of functional diversity in forests and implications for restoration

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7. Enhanced plant diversity reduces nitrous oxide emissions in forest soils worldwide

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8. Tree species richness affects the trophic structure of soil oribatid mites via litter functional diversity and canopy cover: Evidence from stable isotope analysis (15N, 13C)

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9. Identifying seed families with high mixture performance in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment

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10. Non- random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities

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11. Understory shrub diversity: equally vital as overstory tree diversity to promote forest productivity

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12. Tree diversity increases forest temperature buffering via enhancing canopy density and structural diversity

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13. Multi-dimensionality of tree communities structure host-parasitoid networks and their phylogenetic composition

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14. Trait-based neighbourhood effects modulate the growth-weather relationships of subtropical trees

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15. Strong nestedness and turnover effects on stand productivity in a long‐term forest biodiversity experiment

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16. Plant diversity increases diversity and network complexity rather than alters community assembly processes of leaf-associated fungi in a subtropical forest

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17. Soil conditions modify species diversity effects on tree functional trait expression

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18. Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity

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19. Functional diversity of neighbours mediates sap flow density and radial growth of focal trees, but in different ways between evergreen and deciduous broadleaved species

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20. Mixed-species stands improve the coordination between leaf and fine root traits in a common garden experiment

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21. The spatial distribution of tree-tree interaction effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration

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22. Influence of tree mycorrhizal type, tree species identity, and diversity on forest root-associated mycobiomes

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23. Tree species diversity modulates the effects of fungal pathogens on litter decomposition: evidences from an incubation experiment

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24. Functional dissimilarity in mixed forests promotes stem radial growth by mitigating tree water deficit

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25. Tree and shrub richness modifies subtropical tree productivity by regulating the diversity and community composition of soil bacteria and archaea

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26. Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships

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27. Plant–soil feedback is dependent on tree mycorrhizal types and tree species richness in a subtropical forest

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28. 9 PhD positions in the field of forest biodiversity ecosystem functioning research (TreeDì / BEF-China)

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29. Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity

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30. Tree communities and functional traits determine herbivore compositional turnover

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31. Within-individual leaf trait variation increases with phenotypic integration in a subtropical tree diversity experiment

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32. Subtropical forest tree genetic richness causes contrasting effects on soil fungal guilds in monocultures and mixed-species stands

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33. Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest

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34. Functional potential of soil microbial communities and their subcommunities varies with tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity

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35. Different assembly mechanisms of leaf epiphytic and endophytic bacterial communities underlie their higher diversity in more diverse forests

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36. Mycorrhizal Types Control Biodiversity Effects on Productivity

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37. Functional and phylogenetic relationships link predators to plant diversity via trophic and non-trophic pathways

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38. Tree species and genetic diversity increase productivity via functional diversity and trophic feedbacks

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39. Tree dissimilarity determines multi-dimensional beta-diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom-up effects

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40. Differential impacts on herbivore diversity and scale-dependence of tree diversity in subtropical forests

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41. Leaf nutritional content, tree richness, and season shape the caterpillar functional trait composition hosted by trees

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42. Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment

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43. Effects of enemy exclusion on biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment

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44. 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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45. Neighbourhood Species Richness Reduces Crown Asymmetry of Subtropical Trees in Sloping Terrain

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46. Niche partitioning in nitrogen uptake among subtropical tree species enhances biomass production

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47. Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

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48. Planting new forests with high functional diversity helps improve productivity

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49. Special issue: Tree Diversity Effects on Ecosystem Functioning

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50. Understanding biodiversity in forests

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51. Phylogenetic relatedness, functional traits, and spatial scale determine herbivore co‐occurrence in a subtropical forest

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52. Tree species richness differentially affects the chemical composition of leaves, roots and root exudates in four subtropical tree species.

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53. Tree diversity and functional leaf traits drive herbivore-associated microbiomes in subtropical China.

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54. What shapes ground beetle assemblages in a tree species-rich subtropical forest?

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55. Soil fungi promote biodiversity–productivity relationships in experimental communities of young trees

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56. Plant and microbial pathways driving plant diversity effects on soil carbon accumulation in subtropical forest

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57. The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning

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58. Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning

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59. Tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity shape the forest soil microbiota

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60. Tree species richness promotes an early increase of stand structural complexity in young subtropical plantations

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61. 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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62. Local Tree Diversity Suppresses Foliar Fungal Infestation and Decreases Morphological but Not Molecular Richness in a Young Subtropical Forest

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63. Species identity and composition effects on community productivity in a subtropical forest

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64. Drivers of understorey biomass: tree species identity is more important than richness in a young forest

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65. Canopy Closure Retards Fine Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Regenerating Forests

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66. Plant identity strongly structures the root-associated fungal community in a diverse subtropical forest

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67. Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest

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68. Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest

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69. Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: The role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing

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70. 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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71. 9 PhD positions in forest biodiversity research within the International Research Training Group TreeDì (GRK 2324)

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72. Host functional and phylogenetic composition rather than host diversity structure plant-herbivore networks

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73. Genetic richness affects trait variation but not community productivity in a tree diversity experiment

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74. Neighbourhood diversity mitigates drought impacts on tree growth

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75. Growth-trait relationships depend on species richness in subtropical forest

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76. Neighbour species richness and local structural variability modulate aboveground allocation patterns and crown morphology of individual trees

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77. Herbivore phylogenetic diversity can be affected by plant diversity loss

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78. Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

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79. Tree diversity increases robustness of multi-trophic interactions

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80. Species-rich forests store twice as much carbon as monocultures

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81. Species-rich forests better compensate environmental impacts

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82. Neighbourhood interactions drive overyielding in mixed-species tree communities

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