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Tree and shrub richness modifies subtropical tree productivity by regulating the diversity and community composition of soil bacteria and archaea
Forest soils contain rich prokaryotic communities, with groups such as bacteria and archaea playing important roles in carbon flux, nutrient cycling, and decomposition. However, their...
In Paper, Jan 03, 2024Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships
Understanding the mechanisms underlying diversity–productivity relationships (DPRs) is crucial to mitigating the effects of forest biodiversity loss. Tree–tree interactions in diverse...
In Paper, Jan 02, 2024Plant–soil feedback is dependent on tree mycorrhizal types and tree species richness in a subtropical forest
Plant-soil feedback (PSF) is an important driver of plant species coexistence and diversity maintenance. However, it remains unclear how changes in PSF due to decline in tree species ...
In Paper, Jan 01, 20249 PhD positions in the field of forest biodiversity ecosystem functioning research (TreeDì / BEF-China)
The International Research Training Group “TreeDì - Tree Diversity Interactions: The role of tree-tree interactions in local neighborhoods in Chinese subtropical forests” (GRK 2324), ...
In news, Dec 23, 2023Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity
An international team of researchers led by Prof. MA Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species ric...
In Report, May 28, 2023Tree communities and functional traits determine herbivore compositional turnover
Studying the mechanisms of species turnover is key to understand community assembly in ecology. However, it is rarely investigated through calculating similarity of composition across...
In Paper, Apr 29, 2023Within-individual leaf trait variation increases with phenotypic integration in a subtropical tree diversity experiment
Covariation of plant functional traits, that is, phenotypic integration, might constrain their variability. This was observed for inter- and intraspecific variation, but there is no e...
In Paper, Apr 28, 2023Subtropical forest tree genetic richness causes contrasting effects on soil fungal guilds in monocultures and mixed-species stands
Plant diversity plays a critical role in shaping soil fungal communities. However, most previous studies have primarily focused on the consequences of tree species richness, while few...
In Paper, Apr 27, 2023Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest
Carbon-focused climate mitigation strategies are becoming increasingly important in forests. However, with ongoing biodiversity declines we require better knowledge of how much such s...
In Paper, Mar 27, 2023Functional potential of soil microbial communities and their subcommunities varies with tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity
Soil microbial communities play crucial roles in the earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Yet, their genomic potential for nutrient cycling in association with tree mycorrhizal type and tre...
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Strong nestedness and turnover effects on stand productivity in a long‐term forest biodiversity experiment
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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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Soil conditions modify species diversity effects on tree functional trait expression
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Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity
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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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Mixed-species stands improve the coordination between leaf and fine root traits in a common garden experiment
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The spatial distribution of tree-tree interaction effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration
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Influence of tree mycorrhizal type, tree species identity, and diversity on forest root-associated mycobiomes
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Tree species diversity modulates the effects of fungal pathogens on litter decomposition: evidences from an incubation experiment
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Functional dissimilarity in mixed forests promotes stem radial growth by mitigating tree water deficit
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Tree and shrub richness modifies subtropical tree productivity by regulating the diversity and community composition of soil bacteria and archaea
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Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships
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Plant–soil feedback is dependent on tree mycorrhizal types and tree species richness in a subtropical forest
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9 PhD positions in the field of forest biodiversity ecosystem functioning research (TreeDì / BEF-China)
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Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity
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Tree communities and functional traits determine herbivore compositional turnover
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Within-individual leaf trait variation increases with phenotypic integration in a subtropical tree diversity experiment
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Subtropical forest tree genetic richness causes contrasting effects on soil fungal guilds in monocultures and mixed-species stands
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Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest
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Functional potential of soil microbial communities and their subcommunities varies with tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity
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Different assembly mechanisms of leaf epiphytic and endophytic bacterial communities underlie their higher diversity in more diverse forests
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Mycorrhizal Types Control Biodiversity Effects on Productivity
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Functional and phylogenetic relationships link predators to plant diversity via trophic and non-trophic pathways
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Tree species and genetic diversity increase productivity via functional diversity and trophic feedbacks
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Tree dissimilarity determines multi-dimensional beta-diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom-up effects
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Differential impacts on herbivore diversity and scale-dependence of tree diversity in subtropical forests
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Leaf nutritional content, tree richness, and season shape the caterpillar functional trait composition hosted by trees
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Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment
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Effects of enemy exclusion on biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment
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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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Neighbourhood Species Richness Reduces Crown Asymmetry of Subtropical Trees in Sloping Terrain
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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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