ArticleEcology letters2025
Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity.
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- Scaling biodiversity-stability relationships from populations to meta-communities across trophic levels.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Landscape effects on global soil pathogenic fungal diversity across spatial scales.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Neighbourhood diversity increases tree growth in experimental forests more in wetter climates but not in wetter years.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Multiyear Drought Strengthens Positive and Negative Functional Diversity Effects on Tree Growth Response.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Understory shrub diversity: equally vital as overstory tree diversity to promote forest productivity.National science review · 2025Article
- Divergent Climate Sensitivity and Spatiotemporal Instability in Radial Growth of Natural and PlantedPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Global warming is increasing the frequency and intensity of climate extremes. Forests may buffer climate extremes by creating their own attenuated microclimate below their canopy, which maintains forest functioning and biodiversity. However, the effect of tree diversity on temperature buffering in forests is largely unexplored. Here, we show that tree species richness increases forest temperature buffering across temporal scales over six years in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient of 1 to 24 tree species. We found that species richness strengthened the cooling of hot and the insulation against cold daily and monthly air temperatures and temperature extremes. This buffering effect of tree species richness was mediated by enhanced canopy density and structural diversity in species-rich stands. Safeguarding and planting diverse forests may thus mitigate negative effects of global warming and climate extremes on below-canopy ecosystem functions and communities.
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