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Functional diversity enhances dryland forest productivity under long-term climate change.
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- Ecological multifunctionality of watersheds increases with tree species richness.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Divergent mechanisms governing aboveground biomass in desert plants across a drought gradient.iScience · 2026Article
- Ecotypic Identity and Manipulated Rainfall Modulate Diversity-Productivity Relationships Across a Precipitation Gradient.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Neighbourhood diversity increases tree growth in experimental forests more in wetter climates but not in wetter years.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Facilitating Large-Scale Bird Biodiversity Data Collection in Citizen Science: 'Relaxed' Point Counts for Anytime, Anywhere Monitoring.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Unveiling spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers of ecosystem services to optimize the ecological zoning management in the Luo river basin.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Long-term stability of productivity increases with tree diversity in Canadian forests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Short-term experimental studies provided evidence that plant diversity increases ecosystem resilience and resistance to drought events, suggesting diversity to serve as a nature-based solution to address climate change. However, it remains unclear whether the effects of diversity are momentary or still hold over the long term in natural forests to ensure that the sustainability of carbon sinks. By analyzing 57 years of inventory data from dryland forests in Canada, we show that productivity of dryland forests decreased at an average rate of 1.3% per decade, in concert with the temporally increasing temperature and decreasing water availability. Increasing functional trait diversity from its minimum (monocultures) to maximum value increased productivity by 13%. Our results demonstrate the potential role of tree functional trait diversity in alleviating climate change impacts on dryland forests. While recognizing that nature-based climate mitigation (e.g., planting trees) can only be partial solutions, their long-term (decadal) efficacy can be improved by enhancing functional trait diversity across the forest community.
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