Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity–productivity relationships in Iberian forests

By Tommaso Jucker, Olivier Bouriaud, D. Avăcăriței, Iulian Danila, G. Duduman, F. Valladares, David A. Coomes. 2014

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Tree‐to‐tree competition in mixed European beech–Scots pine forests has different impacts on growth and water‐use efficiency depending on site conditions (2018, background): “oak) when mixed with pine species (Coll et al., 2013; Jucker et al., 2014).”
Impacts of Global Change on Mediterranean Forests and Their Services (2017, background): “[242] have observed that mixed pine-oak forests are favored under moderate drought; shade-intolerant Pinus species received more light and were able to grow 138–155% faster when mixed with oaks, and oaks were less responsive to mixing due to their tolerance to shade and water shortage.”
Diversity and competition influence tree allometric relationships – developing functions for mixed‐species forests (2017, background): “…in some cases the predicted variable can differ by more than 100%, for a given diameter (Getzin & Wiegand 2007; Laclau et al. 2008; Thorpe et al. 2010; Bayer, Seifert & Pretzsch 2013; Metz et al. 2013; Barbeito, Collet & Ningre 2014; Forrester & Albrecht 2014; Jucker et al. 2014; Pretzsch 2014).”
Positive species diversity and above‐ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees (2017, background): “…which are attri- butable to the use and retention of site resources by resource partitioning and reduced competition in species- rich communities (Hooper et al. 2005; Vil a et al. 2007, 2013; Paquette & Messier 2011; Zhang, Chen & Reich 2012; Forrester 2014; Jucker et al. 2014; Zhang & Chen 2015).”
Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an extreme drought (2016, background): “For instance, diversity increases biomass production and reduces its temporal variation in both grasslands (Hector et al. 2010) and forests (Jucker et al. 2014a).”
Crown plasticity enables trees to optimize canopy packing in mixed-species forests (2015, background): “Our results suggest that increased CV of individual trees growing in mixture is a general feature of diverse forests (Sapijanskas et al. 2014; Jucker et al. 2014a).”