ArticleNature plants2024
Boreal tree species diversity increases with global warming but is reversed by extremes.
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- Acquisitive plants exhibit stronger phenological shifts in response to warming: insights from meta-analysis and long-term monitoring.Nature communications · 2026Pooled it
- Climate Warming Will Reduce Boreal Forest Litterfall, but the Response Differs Among Plant Functional Types.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Nonlinear temperature change responses shape soil organic carbon loss-gain transitions in global Mollisol croplands.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Stand structural attributes exert stronger and scale-dependent control on forest biomass than tree diversity across typical forest ecosystems in China.Plant diversity · 2026Article
- Research progress on the interaction between forest carbon sequestration and climate change.Carbon balance and management · 2026Review
- Stand Structure and Type Drive Productivity in Chinese Fir Forests: Comparison of Pure and Mixed Stands.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Environmental change shapes understory plant diversity and dominance in boreal forests.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Tree Invasions of Subarctic Shrublands Interact With Locally Augmented Snow and Functional Soil Depths: A Case Study in Denali National Park.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Spectral biology across scales in changing environments.Ecology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Tree species diversity is essential to sustaining stable forest ecosystem functioning. However, it remains unclear how boreal tree species diversity has changed in response to climate change and how it is associated with productivity and the temporal stability of boreal forest ecosystems. By combining 5,312 field observations and 55,560 Landsat images, here we develop a framework to estimate boreal tree species diversity (represented by the Shannon diversity index, H') for the years 2000, 2010 and 2020. We document an average increase in H' by 12% from 2000 to 2020 across the boreal forests. This increase accounts for 53% of all boreal forest areas and mainly occurs in the eastern forest-boreal transition region, the Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga and the Scandinavian-Russian taiga. Tree species diversity responds positively to increasing temperatures, but the relationship is weakened for higher temperature changes, and in areas of extreme warming (>0.065 °C yr
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