Understorey diversity in southern boreal forests is regulated by productivity and its indirect impacts on resource availability and heterogeneity

By Peter B. Reich, L. Frelich, R. A. Voldseth, Peter W. Bakken, E. Adair. 2012

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1. Understanding the relationship between species diversity and productivity is central to linking compositional and functional aspects of terrestrial ecosystems, and little is known about such issues in boreal forests. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to test several hypotheses about direct and indirect influences of productivity, its correlate basal area, and resources on understorey vascular plant diversity on 2025 plots in 81 southern boreal forests in Minnesota, USA.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• Light, earthworms, and soil resources as predictors of diversity of 10 soil invertebrate groups across monocultures of 14 tree species (2016, unknown): “For example, understory light can impact carbon assimilation by understory plants (P fi tsch and Pearcy, 1989; Ellsworth and Reich, 1992), carbon allocation to roots and short-lived leaves of understory plants (Euliss et al., 2007), and total understory plant cover and diversity (Reich et al., 2012).”
• Estimating seasonal variations of leaf area index using litterfall collection and optical methods in four mixed evergreen–deciduous forests (2015, methodology): “In recent years, techniques have been developed to obtain the annual maximum LAI (LAImax) of evergreen coniferous stands by multiplying the fallen LAI during a certain period with needle life span (Sprintsin et al., 2011; Guiterman et al., 2012; Reich et al., 2012).”
• Linking resource availability and heterogeneity to understorey species diversity through succession in boreal forest of Canada (2018, background): “Furthermore, broadleaves and conifers also differ in terms of the quality and quantity of understorey light (Messier et al., 1998; Reich et al., 2012), as well as leaf litter quality, soil pH and nutrient cycling (Augusto et al., 2015; Chávez & Macdonald, 2010; Hart & Chen, 2006; Légaré, Paré, &…”
• Guidelines for a graph-theoretic implementation of structural equation modeling (2012, background): “…and Tylianakis 2010, Beguin et al. 2011, Prugh and Brashares 2012), plant communities (e.g., Weiher 2003, Seabloom et al. 2006, Laughlin 2011, Reich et al. 2012), microbial communities (e.g., Bowker et al. 2010), animal populations (e.g., Janssen et al. 2011, Gimenez et al. 2012), animal…”