Successional diversity and forest ecosystem function

By John P. Caspersen, S. Pacala. Ecological research, 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests (2011, result): “So far few studies have attempted to test B-EF relationships in natural forests, but most have reported overall positive results (Caspersen & Pacala, 2001; Vilà et al., 2007; Lei et al., 2009), although negative or insignificant results have also been reported (Vilà et al., 2003).”
Effects of diversity of tree species and size on forest basal area growth, recruitment, and mortality (2007, background): “, 2003) are as common as positive ones (Kelty, 1989; Caspersen and Pacala, 2001; Liang et al., 2005).”
Above-ground standing biomass and tree species diversity in natural stands of Central Europe (2007, background): “On the other hand, analyses concerning the relationship between species diversity and productivity in forest ecosystems produced ambiguous results (Schulze & Mooney 1993, Waide et al 1999; Caspersen & Pacala 2001; SchererLorenzen et al. 2005).”
Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service (2010, background): “Discussion and methodological considerations Our review on current literature on tree diversity effects on ecosystem functioning confirms that species-rich forests generally show higher productivity than species poor forests [12 ,36].”
Characterization of the structure, dynamics, and productivity of mixed-species stands: review and perspectives (2015, methodology): “…tree species richness/diversity and productivity in Eur J Forest Res (2016) 135:23–49 29 forests using data from regional forest inventories (e.g. Caspersen and Pacala 2001; Vilà et al. 2007; Belote et al. 2011; Paquette and Messier 2011; Gamfeldt et al. 2013; Seidel et al. 2013; Vilà et al.…”
Functional role of forest diversity: Pros and cons of synthetic stands and across-site comparisons in established forests (2009, background): “…comparative studies with pure and two-species stands in many European countries (e.g. Cannell, Malcolm, & Robertson, 1992; Kelty, 1992; Oltsthoorn et al., 1999; Pretzsch, 2005), whereas comparisons with more than two tree species are the exception (e.g. Caspersen & Pacala, 2001; Vila et al., 2005).”
Exploring the functional significance of forest diversity: A new long-term experiment with temperate tree species (BIOTREE) (2007, background): “In ‘observational studies’, biodiversity and ecosystem processes are compared in different existing forest stands (e.g. Schulze et al., 1996; Caspersen and Pacala, 2001; Vilà et al., 2007).”
Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semi‐arid forest ecosystems (2013, background): “…diversity in natural forest or evaluated the importance of specific functional traits for different ecosystem processes within natural forest ecosystems (Caspersen & Pacala 2001; Mayfield et al. 2005; Delagrange et al. 2008; Jonsson & Wardle 2010; Ruiz-Jaen & Potvin 2011; Wardle et al. 2012).”
Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests (2014, background): “Structural effect = exp [− 1 2 ( Density−XDa XDb ) 2 ] × exp [− 1 2 ( Heterogeneity−XHa XHb ) 2 ] (5) 233”
Does biodiversity make a difference? Relationships between species richness, evolutionary diversity, and aboveground live tree biomass across U.S. forests. (2014, background): “…greater species richness, PD and PSC were able to accumulate greater amounts of biomass than communities with lower biodiversity values, possibly because the species possess additional functional variation that enhances biomass accumulation within high-diversity stands (Caspersen and Pacala, 2001).”
The Design of Experimental Tree Plantations for Functional Biodiversity Research (2005, background): “Thus, sample surveys or comparative studies can be used to document correlations between diversity and ecosystem processes, but they cannot be used to establish causality or underlying mechanisms of this relationship ( Caspersen and Pacala 2001 ).”
Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale (2014, background): “…relationship between species richness and wood production in temperate and boreal forests (Vilà et al., 2007; Paquette & Messier, 2011), and Caspersen & Pacala (2001) found that aboveground biomass was positively related to successional stage and species richness in temperate forests of…”