Does functional trait diversity predict above‐ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses
By B. Finegan, M. Peña-Claros, A. Oliveira, N. Ascarrunz, M. Bret-Harte, Geovana Carreño‐Rocabado, Fernando Casanoves, Sandra Díaz, Paul Eguiguren Velepucha, F. Fernández and 5 more. 2015
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Subfields: Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Citations in the corpus
- Patterns of biomass allocation between foliage and woody structure: the effects of tree size and specific functional traits (2016, background): “For instance, wood density is a good predictor of individual tree diameter increments (Wright et al. 2010), and correlates con- sistently with the biomass increment (Finegan et al. 2015).”
- Above‐ground biomass is driven by mass‐ratio effects and stand structural attributes in a temperate deciduous forest (2018, result): “The lack of complementarity effects on AGB at our study site is also consistent with other studies in tropical (Finegan et al., 2015), subtropical (Ali et al., 2017; Chiang et al., 2016; Lin et al., 2016) and semi- arid (Conti & Díaz, 2013) forests that showed no increase in AGB or productivity…”
- Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest (2017, background): “Taxonomic diversity was, surprisingly, a better predictor for recruitment than trait diversity (also called functional diversity or variety, e.g. Mason et al. 2005; Finegan et al. 2015), which should be more mechanistically linked to recruitment.”
- Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (2017, background): “…the functional characteristics and richness of plant communities are major drivers of carbon accumulation in all pools (Kirby and Potvin 2007; Conti and Diaz 2013; Harmon et al. 2013; Lange et al. 2015), although Finegan et al. (2015) found no relationship between species richness and biomass.”
- Conservative species drive biomass productivity in tropical dry forests (2016, background): “…many studies in moist and wet forest studies that found no or even negative relationships between (biomass) growth rates and initial biomass, probably because of stronger light limitation and resource competition (Hughes, Kauffman & Jaramillo 1999; Pe~na-Claros et al. 2008; Finegan et al. 2015).”