ArticleNature ecology & evolution2021
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment.
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- Plant diversity's positive effect on soil respiration diminishes with increasing productivity in global forests.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Asynchrony and functional diversity couple herbivore community dynamics to host plant diversity.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Plant Functional Diversity Is Primarily Influenced by Exchangeable Cation Deposition in a Saline-Alkaline Coal-Mining Region in Northwestern China.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Leaf economic strategy and stand structural complexity are associated with net woody productivity in a subtropical mixed forest.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Different major effects regulating productivity dynamics at different succession stages of monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forests.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
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- Functional diversity of soil microbial communities increases with ecosystem development.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The tree growth-herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Forest biodiversity increases productivity via complementarity from greater canopy structural complexity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Inferring scalable productivity-related grassland functional diversity in combination with in-situ leaf spectra and Sentinel-2 data.Fundamental research · 2025Article
- Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Understory shrub diversity: equally vital as overstory tree diversity to promote forest productivity.National science review · 2025Article
- Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of conifers vs broad-leaves has critical implications for research and modelling.The New phytologist · 2025Review
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Abstract
Forest restoration increases global forest area and ecosystem services such as primary productivity and carbon storage. How tree species functional composition impacts the provisioning of these services as forests develop is sparsely studied. We used 10-year data from 478 plots with 191,200 trees in a forest biodiversity experiment in subtropical China to assess the relationship between community productivity and community-weighted mean (CWM) or functional diversity (FD) values of 38 functional traits. We found that effects of FD values on productivity became larger than effects of CWM values after 7 years of forest development and that the FD values also became more reliable predictors of productivity than the CWM values. In contrast to CWM, FD values consistently increased productivity across ten different species-pool subsets. Our results imply that to promote productivity in the long term it is imperative for forest restoration projects to plant multispecies communities with large functional diversity.
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