The Design of Experimental Tree Plantations for Functional Biodiversity Research

By M. Scherer‐Lorenzen, C. Potvin, J. Koricheva, Barbara C. Schmid, Andy Hector, Z. Bornik, Glen Reynolds, E. Schulze. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, methodology): “As a rule of thumb, to prevent edge eﬀects, Scherer-Lorenzen et al. (2005a) suggested a side length of a plot of about twice the maximum ﬁnal tree height, usually corresponding to a plot area of 0 (cid:1) 5 – 1 ha.”
Tamm Review: On the strength of evidence when comparing ecosystem functions of mixtures with monocultures (2015, background): “This has been the focus of many previous studies that present the advantages and disadvantages of designs such as replacement series, additive series, biodiversity experiments and many others (Vandermeer, 1989; Kelty and Cameron, 1995; Scherer-Lorenzen et al., 2005; Bruelheide et al., 2014) and in s”
Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation (2008, background): “In consequence, there is a need to study the BEF relationship in more complex systems and at larger spatial scales ( Scherer-Lorenzen et al . 2005; Balvanera et al . 2006).”
Tree species richness affects litter production and decomposition rates in a tropical biodiversity experiment (2007, background): “An experimental manipulation of the producer-level in forests, i.e. trees, obviously is a difficult and longlasting task and only recently attempts in this direction have been made (Scherer-Lorenzen et al. 2005b).”
Functional role of forest diversity: Pros and cons of synthetic stands and across-site comparisons in established forests (2009, methodology): “While the problem of covarying factors is particularly severe in such cross-site comparisons, it is also inherent to most tree diversity experiments simply because of the large size of the field sites needed (Scherer-Lorenzen et al., 2005).”
Tree water uptake in a tropical plantation varying in tree diversity: interspecific differences, seasonal shifts and complementarity (2015, background): “Twelve plots are monocultures (two for each species), six plots have different combinations of three tree species and six plots include all tree species (Scherer-Lorenzen et al., 2005).”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: issues of scale and trophic complexity (2006, background): “Many of the earlier generation of biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments had a high degree of replication, but small plot sizes (Bulling et al. 2006); in the new generation of terrestrial studies, experiments are not as constrained (e.g. Schilthuizen 2003, Scherer-Lorenzen et al. 2004).”
Tree diversity enhances tree transpiration in a Panamanian forest plantation (2012, background): “range of relative growth rates (Scherer-Lorenzen et al. 2005): the fastgrowing species Luehea seemannii (Triana & Planch, Tiliaceae) and”
Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit (2009, background): “The next generation of studies on the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem services could thus focus on realistic combinations of species or functional types planted or tended by different social groups under different contexts [40 ,49].”