ArticleScience advances2024
Enhancing ecosystem productivity and stability with increasing canopy structural complexity in global forests.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Species mixing promotes plant biomass accumulation and nutrient cycling in forest plantations.Communications biology · 2026Pooled it
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- Canopy structural diversity mediates the effect of climate on primary productivity in forests.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Crown architecture traits mediate shade tolerance-dependent trade-offs and neighborhood interactions in a subtropical forest.Plant diversity · 2026Article
- Integrating 3D phenotyping and functional-structural plant models for crop ideotype breeding.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Stand structural attributes exert stronger and scale-dependent control on forest biomass than tree diversity across typical forest ecosystems in China.Plant diversity · 2026Article
- Coupled Above- and Belowground Ecosystem Stability Worldwide.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Impact of canopy vertical height on leaf functional traits in a Cunninghamia lanceolata common garden experiment in Dagangshan.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- 3D reconstruction analysis of maize-soybean intercropping competition under water stress.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Weakly supervised forest canopy extraction and multi-dimensional joint canopy entropy for quantifying canopy structural complexity using large-scale forest UAV LiDAR data.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Tree size-dependent effects of tree diversity on aboveground biomass during development in subtropical coniferous forests.Carbon balance and management · 2026Article
- Maps of forest vertical structure for Colombia, a megadiverse country.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Wetland productivity and stability increase more with average plant size than with plant functional diversity.Nature communications · 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
- Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Large-sized trees regulating the structural diversity-productivity relationships through shaping different productive processes in a tropical forest.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Growth Rate and Not Growing Season Explains the Increased Productivity of Masson Pine in Mixed Stands.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Forest canopy structural complexity (CSC) plays a crucial role in shaping forest ecosystem productivity and stability, but the precise nature of their relationships remains controversial. Here, we mapped the global distribution of forest CSC and revealed the factors influencing its distribution using worldwide light detection and ranging data. We find that forest CSC predominantly demonstrates significant positive relationships with forest ecosystem productivity and stability globally, although substantial variations exist among forest ecoregions. The effects of forest CSC on productivity and stability are the balanced results of biodiversity and resource availability, providing valuable insights for comprehending forest ecosystem functions. Managed forests are found to have lower CSC but more potent enhancing effects of forest CSC on ecosystem productivity and stability than intact forests, highlighting the urgent need to integrate forest CSC into the development of forest management plans for effective climate change mitigation.
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