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Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability

Xin Jing, Bart Muys, Lander Baeten (UGent) , Helge Bruelheide, Hans De Wandeler, Ellen Desie, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Hervé Jactel, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Tommaso Jucker, et al.
(2022) SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 812.
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  • FUNDIVEUROPE (Functional significance of forest biodiversity in Europe)
Abstract
Tree species diversity promotes multiple ecosystem functions and services. However, little is known about how above and belowground resource availability (light, nutrients, and water) and resource uptake capacity mediate tree species diversity effects on aboveground wood productivity and temporal stability of productivity in European forests and whether the effects differ between humid and arid regions. We used the data from six major European forest types along a latitudinal gradient to address those two questions. We found that neither leaf area index (a proxy for light uptake capacity), nor fine root biomass (a proxy for soil nutrient and water uptake capacity) was related to tree species richness. Leaf area index did, however, enhance productivity, but negatively affected stability. Productivity was further promoted by soil nutrient availability, while stability was enhanced by fine root biomass. We only found a positive effect of tree species richness on productivity in arid regions and a positive effect on stability in humid regions. This indicates a possible disconnection between productivity and stability regarding tree species richness effects. In other words, the mechanisms that drive the positive effects of tree species richness on productivity do not per se benefit stability simultaneously. Our findings therefore suggest that tree species richness effects are largely mediated by differences in climatic conditions rather than by differences in above-and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity at the regional scales.
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Abiotic context, Aboveground wood productivity, Stability, FunDivEUROPE, Resource availability, Resource uptake capacity, FINE-ROOT BIOMASS, LEAF-AREA INDEX, SPECIES-DIVERSITY, FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, INDICATOR VALUES, IMPORTANT DRIVER, BIODIVERSITY, INCREASES, RESISTANCE, RICHNESS

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MLA
Jing, Xin, et al. “Climatic Conditions, Not above- and Belowground Resource Availability and Uptake Capacity, Mediate Tree Diversity Effects on Productivity and Stability.” SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 812, 2022, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152560.
APA
Jing, X., Muys, B., Baeten, L., Bruelheide, H., De Wandeler, H., Desie, E., … Van Meerbeek, K. (2022). Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152560
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Jing, Xin, Bart Muys, Lander Baeten, Helge Bruelheide, Hans De Wandeler, Ellen Desie, Stephan Hättenschwiler, et al. 2022. “Climatic Conditions, Not above- and Belowground Resource Availability and Uptake Capacity, Mediate Tree Diversity Effects on Productivity and Stability.” SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152560.
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Jing, Xin, Bart Muys, Lander Baeten, Helge Bruelheide, Hans De Wandeler, Ellen Desie, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Hervé Jactel, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Tommaso Jucker, Paul Kardol, Martina Pollastrini, Sophia Ratcliffe, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Federico Selvi, Karen Vancampenhout, Fons van der Plas, Kris Verheyen, Lars Vesterdal, Juan Zuo, and Koenraad Van Meerbeek. 2022. “Climatic Conditions, Not above- and Belowground Resource Availability and Uptake Capacity, Mediate Tree Diversity Effects on Productivity and Stability.” SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 812. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152560.
Vancouver
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Jing X, Muys B, Baeten L, Bruelheide H, De Wandeler H, Desie E, et al. Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 2022;812.
IEEE
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X. Jing et al., “Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability,” SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 812, 2022.
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  title        = {{Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability}},
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  volume       = {{812}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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