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ArticleNature communications2026

Biodiversity buffers forest ecosystems from compound climate extremes.

Xuetao Qiao, Jakob Zscheischler, Michel Loreau, Peter B Reich, Qingqing Chen, Michael Bahn, Neha Mohanbabu, Hannah J White, Mingyu Luo, Shaopeng Wang

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Xuetao QiaoInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8265-6414
Jakob ZscheischlerDepartment of Compound Environmental Risks, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6045-1629
Michel LoreauInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0122-495X
Peter B ReichDepartment of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4424-662X
Qingqing ChenDivision of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1957-3848
Michael BahnDepartment of Ecology, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7482-9776
Neha MohanbabuCopernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6557-131X
Hannah J WhiteSchool of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Mingyu LuoInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2975-5218
Shaopeng WangInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China. shaopeng.wang@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9430-8879

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32401319National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32425036;32588202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Forest ecosystems provide key ecological, social, and climate benefits, yet their functions are potentially threatened by rising compound extremes characterised by simultaneous heat and drought or moisture excess. Here, we explore how forests resist and recover from compound heat and moisture extremes and how tree diversity mediates these responses, using U.S. forest inventory data along with satellite-based stability estimates. We find that compound extremes result in lower forest resistance and recovery than individual extremes. Compound extremes tend to exhibit synergistic effects, causing greater negative impacts than the sum of individual extremes. Compound heat and drought have slightly stronger destabilising effects than compound heat and moisture excess. Higher tree diversity consistently improves resistance and recovery under both individual and compound extremes. Our findings suggest that focusing solely on individual climate extremes is likely to underestimate the impacts of compound extremes and to increase uncertainty in projections of terrestrial carbon-cycle feedbacks, while also highlighting the critical role of tree diversity in mitigating these threats under future climate conditions.

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BiodiversityClimate ChangeForestsClimateDroughtsEcosystemHot TemperatureTrees

Identifiers

PMID42443190
PMCPMC13486676

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