Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semi‐arid forest ecosystems

By G. Conti, Sandra Díaz. 2013

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Above‐ground biomass is driven by mass‐ratio effects and stand structural attributes in a temperate deciduous forest (2018, result): “…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 with functional diversity.”
Losses in microbial functional diversity reduce the rate of key soil processes (2019, background): “Predictions of a decline in terrestrial functional biodiversity have raised substantial 105 concerns over the consequences that losses in microbial functional diversity may have on key 106 ecosystem processes and functions (Díaz et al., 2011; Conti and Díaz 2013; Lavorel et al., 107 2013).”
Plant functional effects on ecosystem services (2013, background): “In this Special Feature, some non-negligible FD effects were also retained in the models of ecosystem services (Butterfield & Suding 2013; Conti & Díaz 2013; Grigulis et al. 2013), although their mechanistic explanation is more speculative.”
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…”
An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery (2013, background): “…processes and services, such as primary productivity and decomposition (Mouillot et al. 2011), carbon sequestration (Butterfield & Suding 2013; Conti & Díaz 2013) and fodder production (Butterfield & Suding 2013), as well as ecosystem multifunctionality (i.e. mean ecosystem performance…”
Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of neotropical forests. (2017, methodology): “…and climatic water availability), and soil fertility (total exchangeable bases), and for each plot we quantified the CWM of three functional key traits (specific leaf area, wood density and maximal diameter) that are thought to be important for biomass stocks and dynamics (Conti & Díaz, 2013).”