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

Aims Positive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships have been widely reported, predominately from grassland ecosystems. However, this does not necessarily have to apply acc...

In Paper, Mar 07, 2021

Canopy Closure Retards Fine Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Regenerating Forests

Wood decomposition is faster in open habitats than closed-canopy forests, with the mechanisms unclear. When allowing access, termites outcompete fungi during wood decomposition. If in...

In Paper, Mar 06, 2021

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

Revealing the relationship between plants and root-associated fungi is very important in understanding diversity maintenance and community assembly in ecosystems. However, the communi...

In Paper, Mar 05, 2021

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

Tree growth is the most important factor in determining the carbon sequestration processes of forest ecosystems. However,the growth phenology (seasonal growth pattern) and responses o...

In Paper, Mar 04, 2021

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

From regional to global scales, anthropogenic environmental change is causing biodiversity loss and reducing ecosystem functionality. Previous studies have investigated the relationsh...

In Paper, Mar 03, 2021

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

Previous studies have shown that tree species richness increases forest productivity by allowing for greater spatial complementarity of tree crowns (crown complementarity), which in t...

In Paper, Feb 15, 2021

Tree species richness modulates water supply in the local tree neighbourhood: evidence from wood δ13C signatures in a large-scale forest experiment

Biodiversity is considered to mitigate the adverse effects of changing precipitation patterns. However, our understanding of how tree diversity at the local neighbourhood scale modula...

In Paper, Feb 05, 2021

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

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, Jan 12, 2021

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

Plant-herbivore interactions is a key ecological process in ecosystem functioning and is usually altered by global environmental change, especially plant diversity. Previous study mos...

In Paper, Jun 22, 2020

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

We argue that identifying functional diversity within and among species in forest communities is necessary to separate effects of species and genetic diversity on tree growth and comm...

In Paper, Apr 09, 2020

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