Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

By P. Ruiz‐Benito, L. Gómez‐Aparicio, A. Paquette, Christian Messier, Jens Kattge, M. Zavala. 2014

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This research was initially supported by INTERBOS3-CGL2008-04503-C03-03 and SUM2008-00004-C03-01 projects, and by FUNDIV (ENV.2010.2.1.4-1) at a later stage. PRB was supported by a FPU fellowship (AP2008-01325). The study has been supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits (http://www.trydb.org). The TRY initiative and database is hosted, developed and maintained by J. Kattge and G. Bonisch (Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany). TRY is supported by DIVERSITAS, IGBP, the Global Land Project, the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through its program QUEST (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System), the French Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversite (FRB) and GIS "Climat Environnement et Societe" France.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest (2021, background): “for both inter- and intra-specific variability and functional redundancy (Duffy et al., 2017; Hooper et al., 2005; Ruiz-Benito et al., 2014).”
Management by proxy?:the use of indices in applied ecology (2015, background): “Large-scale attempts to assess ecosystem productivity might rely on proxies such as climatic and structural variables that correlate with productivity (Ruiz-Benito et al. 2014), or vegetation indices derived from remote sensing information (Pettorelli 2013b).”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in naturally assembled communities (2019, background): “For example, compositional effects were especially important in explaining variation of biomass stocks or production (in 89% of the 119 cases compositional effects were strongest, see e.g. Lavorel et al., 2011; Ruiz-Benito et al., 2014; Poorter et al., 2017) or soil carbon stocks or storage (where c”
Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances (2018, background): “richness, because they better capture the degree of functional redundancy and niche overlap (Paquette and Messier 2011; Lasky et al. 2014; Ruiz-Benito et al. 2014).”
Overyielding in mixed forests decreases with site productivity (2015, background): “A stronger positive effect of diversity has been found in boreal forest compared to temperate forest (Paquette & Messier 2011), and despite the more harsh conditions in the boreal biome, the question of the environmental determinism of this result remains (Zhang, Chen & Reich 2012; Ruiz-Benito et al”