Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

By Jingjing Liang, T. W. Crowther, Nicolas Picard, Susan K. Wiser, Mo Zhou, G. Alberti, E. Schulze, A. McGuire, Fabio Bozzato, Hans Pretzsch and 74 more. Science, 2016

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Parameterization of biodiversity–productivity relationship and its scale dependency using georeferenced tree‐level data (2019, methodology): “Hand drawings of tree species are courtesy of Jiahong Tang and figure structure was partly reproduced from Liang et al., 2016 under AAAS's License to Publish #3–7 [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary. com] virtual quadrats of various scales on the two sites to investigate the scale…”
Deforestation risk due to commodity crop expansion in sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “This is particularly salient in light of expanding monoculture systems, which can have far greater impacts on forest ecosystem productivity than mixed-species stands [64].”
Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa (2018, methodology): “Additionally, most ecological studies in tropical forests only focus on tree components (Decocq, Beina, Jamoneau, Gourlet-Fleury, & Closset-Kopp, 2014), omitting other growth forms (e.g. Anderson-Teixeira et al., 2015; Liang et al., 2016).”
Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage (2018, background): “Positive diversity-productivity relationships have also been reported by recent broad-scale studies in forests (16) and grasslands (15, 30).”
Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests (2018, background): “There is evidence that tree species diversity increases the productivity of forests globally (Piotto 2008; Liang et al., 2016).”
Tree ring wood density of Scots pine and European beech lower in mixed-species stands compared with monocultures (2017, background): “Most of the comparisons of productivity in mixed and pure stands are based on stem volume production (Liang et al., 2016; Pretzsch et al., 2015).”