Tree Diversity Drives Forest Stand Resistance to Natural Disturbances

By H. Jactel, Jürgen Bauhus, J. Boberg, Damien Bonal, B. Castagneyrol, Barry Gardiner, J. R. González-Olabarria, J. Koricheva, N. Meurisse, E. Brockerhoff. Current Forestry Reports, 2017

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments (2018, background): “Associational effects range from associational resistance when a plant suffers less damage when surrounded by heterospecific neighbours (e.g. Vehviläinen et al., 2006; Cook-Patton et al., 2014; Damien et al., 2016; Jactel et al., 2017) to associational susceptibility when plants with heterospecific ”
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change (2021, unknown): “Compared to low diversity plantations, biodiverse natural forests and areas allowed to regenerate naturally also have higher resilience to fires, pests and diseases (Barlow et al., 2007; Jactel et al., 2017).”
Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions (2020, background): “Because colonizing species are adapted to local conditions, and to other colonizing taxa (Chazdon 2014), naturally regenerating forests are more resilient to drought, disease, windstorms, or heavy rainfall than single-species tree plantations (Jactel et al 2017).”
Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (2017, background): “For example, mixed forests tend to be more effective in delivering a range of provisioning services (e.g., Gamfeldt et al. 2013; Forrester and Bauhus 2016), and are more resistant to various disturbances than single-species planted forests (Jactel et al. 2017).”
Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges (2020, background): “Ecosystem sensitivity can be minimized by reducing the pressures affecting ecosystem function (pollution, invasive species, habitat loss and fragmentation, over-exploitation) and enhancing genetic, species and functional richness, which buffer the impacts of extreme weather [58,89] and pests [90].”