Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context
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- Sophia Ratcliffe, Christian Wirth, Tommaso Jucker, Fons van der Plas, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Kris Verheyen (UGent) , Eric Allan, Raquel Benavides, Helge Bruelheide, Bettina Ohse, Alain Paquette, Evy Ampoorter (UGent) , Cristina C Bastias, Jürgen Bauhus, Damien Bonal, Olivier Bouriaud, Filippo Bussotti, Monique Carnol, Bastien Castagneyrol, Ewa Chećko, Seid Muhie Dawud, Hans De Wandeler, Timo Domisch, Leena Finér, Markus Fischer, Mariangela Fotelli, Arthur Gessler, André Granier, Charlotte Grossiord, Virginie Guyot, Josephine Haase, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Hervé Jactel, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, François-Xavier Joly, Stephan Kambach, Simon Kolb, Julia Koricheva, Mario Liebersgesell, Harriet Milligan, Sandra Müller, Bart Muys, Diem Nguyen, Charles Nock, Martina Pollastrini, Oliver Purschke, Kalliopi Radoglou, Karsten Raulund-Rasmussen, Fabian Roger, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Rupert Seidl, Federico Selvi, Ian Seiferling, Jan Stenlid, Fernando Valladares, Lars Vesterdal and Lander Baeten (UGent)
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- The importance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystem functioning is generally well accepted. However, most evidence comes from small-scale studies, and scaling-up patterns of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (B-EF) remains challenging, in part because the importance of environmental factors in shaping B-EF relations is poorly understood. Using a forest research platform in which 26 ecosystem functions were measured along gradients of tree species richness in six regions across Europe, we investigated the extent and the potential drivers of context dependency of B-EF relations. Despite considerable variation in species richness effects across the continent, we found a tendency for stronger B-EF relations in drier climates as well as in areas with longer growing seasons and more functionally diverse tree species. The importance of water availability in driving context dependency suggests that as water limitation increases under climate change, biodiversity may become even more important to support high levels of functioning in European forests.
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- Functional diversity, FunDivEUROPE, growing season length, multifunctionality, resource heterogeneity, species richness, water availability, TREE SPECIES-DIVERSITY, LITTER DECOMPOSITION, CROWN PLASTICITY, PRODUCTIVITY, MULTIFUNCTIONALITY, RESISTANCE, COMMUNITY, INCREASE, DROUGHT, STANDS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8531783
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- Ratcliffe, Sophia, et al. “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Relations in European Forests Depend on Environmental Context.” ECOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 20, no. 11, 2017, pp. 1414–26, doi:10.1111/ele.12849.
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- Ratcliffe, S., Wirth, C., Jucker, T., van der Plas, F., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., … Baeten, L. (2017). Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context. ECOLOGY LETTERS, 20(11), 1414–1426. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12849
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- Ratcliffe, Sophia, Christian Wirth, Tommaso Jucker, Fons van der Plas, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Kris Verheyen, Eric Allan, et al. 2017. “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Relations in European Forests Depend on Environmental Context.” ECOLOGY LETTERS 20 (11): 1414–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12849.
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- Ratcliffe, Sophia, Christian Wirth, Tommaso Jucker, Fons van der Plas, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Kris Verheyen, Eric Allan, Raquel Benavides, Helge Bruelheide, Bettina Ohse, Alain Paquette, Evy Ampoorter, Cristina C Bastias, Jürgen Bauhus, Damien Bonal, Olivier Bouriaud, Filippo Bussotti, Monique Carnol, Bastien Castagneyrol, Ewa Chećko, Seid Muhie Dawud, Hans De Wandeler, Timo Domisch, Leena Finér, Markus Fischer, Mariangela Fotelli, Arthur Gessler, André Granier, Charlotte Grossiord, Virginie Guyot, Josephine Haase, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Hervé Jactel, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, François-Xavier Joly, Stephan Kambach, Simon Kolb, Julia Koricheva, Mario Liebersgesell, Harriet Milligan, Sandra Müller, Bart Muys, Diem Nguyen, Charles Nock, Martina Pollastrini, Oliver Purschke, Kalliopi Radoglou, Karsten Raulund-Rasmussen, Fabian Roger, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Rupert Seidl, Federico Selvi, Ian Seiferling, Jan Stenlid, Fernando Valladares, Lars Vesterdal, and Lander Baeten. 2017. “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Relations in European Forests Depend on Environmental Context.” ECOLOGY LETTERS 20 (11): 1414–1426. doi:10.1111/ele.12849.
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- 1.Ratcliffe S, Wirth C, Jucker T, van der Plas F, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, et al. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context. ECOLOGY LETTERS. 2017;20(11):1414–26.
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- [1]S. Ratcliffe et al., “Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context,” ECOLOGY LETTERS, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 1414–1426, 2017.
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