Productivity of mixed versus pure stands of oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Quercus robur L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) along an ecological gradient

By Hans Pretzsch, K. Bielak, J. Block, A. Bruchwald, J. Dieler, H. Ehrhart, Ulrich Kohnle, J. Nagel, H. Spellmann, Michal Zasada and 1 more. European Journal of Forest Research, 2013

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Tree species mixing can increase maximum stand density (2016, background): “…418 419 Species mixing as a cause for increased stand density 420 421 Many studies show that tree species mixing can significantly increase the stand productivity 422 in terms of stem volume growth (Forrester et al. 2006, Piotto 2008, Pretzsch et al. 2010, 2013, 423 2015b, Zhang et al. 2012).”
Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests (2018, background): “Focusing on productivity, Pretzsch et al. (2010, 2013) already showed that specific two-species combinations (oak-beech, spruce-beech) change from overyielding, due to facilitation, to underyielding, driven by competitive interference, along a gradient from poor to rich soils across central Europe.”
Improved productivity and modified tree morphology of mixed versus pure stands of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) with increasing precipitation and age (2016, methodology): “ume weighted by wood dry mass (Pretzsch et al. 2013), or biomass and leaf area (Dirnberger and Sterba 2014).”
Characterization of the structure, dynamics, and productivity of mixed-species stands: review and perspectives (2015, methodology): “The comparison of productivity in mixed versus pure stands can also be given in relative terms by species as well as for the total stand (Pretzsch et al. 2010, 2013; Bielak et al. 2014, 2015), i.e. the relative productivity by species (RP i ) and the relative productivity for the total stand”
Suitability of close-to-nature silviculture for adapting temperate European forests to climate change (2014, background): “…evidence for complementary use of light (Pretzsch and Schütze, 2005), results are contradictory for complementary use by guest on A ugust 18, 2014 http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from of the rooting zone (Meinen et al., 2009; Krämer and Hölscher, 2010; Pretzsch et al., 2013).”
Overyielding in mixed forests decreases with site productivity (2015, background): “Examples of overyielding have been detected in the few long-term experiments which compare pure versus two-species tree mixtures (Brown 1992; Pretzsch et al. 2013) and in studies using large-scale data bases such as national forest inventories (del Rio & Sterba 2009; Vallet & P erot 2011).”
Analyzing size-symmetric vs. size-asymmetric and intra- vs. inter-specific competition in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) mixed stands (2014, background): “This concept might explain the contradictory interactions in oak-beech mixtures also found in other studies (Wiedemann, 1942, 1950; Hein and Dhote, 2006; Pretzsch et al., 2013).”
Tamm Review: On the strength of evidence when comparing ecosystem functions of mixtures with monocultures (2015, methodology): “These are often calculated using Relative Productivity (RP) equations (Kennel, 1965; Pretzsch et al., 2013a; Forrester, 2014) and can be applied to growth, yield or any other ecosystem functions and services.”
Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris–Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe (2017, unknown): “The latter reflects conditions where no mixing effect takes place, which is calculated as the sum of the productivities of the two species in monospecific stands times their proportion in the mixed stand (∑ P i ·m i ) (Pretzsch et al. 2013; Río et al. 2016).”