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Talks BEF conference 2011

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(1) Bruelheide: Stepping stones and motivation of the BEF China experiment. (2)Ma, Dali Guo: Below ground biomass, trees harvested near the main experiment, species list of harvested trees, pictures of harvesting and processing, allocation graphs...

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Created at: 2011-08-09
Updated at: 2014-02-24

CSPs: Tree size in the CSPs in 2008 and 2009

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Tree size in diameter at breastheight (dbh) and/or basal area, as well as height of trees found in the CSPs. Tree tags and species names were later corrected in 2010, so for the corrected species names please refer to the data set "Corrected tree ...

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Created at: 2012-01-04
Updated at: 2016-03-03

CSP total tree basal area without the snowbreak trees

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The BEF-China forest experiment studies the role of tree diversity in ecosystem functioning in subtropical forests. This data includes aggregated Basal area by Comparative Study Plots (CSP) in the Gutianshan National Nature Reserve. Basal area is ...

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Created at: 2012-01-04
Updated at: 2015-02-04

CSPs: LAI and PAR Gutianshan 2009

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Measuring light interception is important for understanding the conditions at the surface. Questions which had to be answered: How much of the light is reaching the ground and how much is hitting leaf material in the canopy? How efficient were the...

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Created at: 2012-01-04
Updated at: 2017-01-31

Talk BEF summerschool 2012 Scientific writing

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Scientific writing course, given by Dan Flynn from Bernhard Schmids course. The course was an intensive course on single paper projects. The presentations are on how to draft a paper outline, about pitfalls in formulations, and about the review pr...

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Created at: 2012-10-04
Updated at: 2014-02-24

Pilot experiment: tree sapling estimated biomass - July 2010

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Estimated data of individual biomass of July 2010 in Pilot experiment (SP7, Species Pool 1 & 3) by the allomerty equations. --- Including estimated tree biomass data of block 1, 2 & 3, and the harvest data of block 4.

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Created at: 2013-07-19
Updated at: 2015-02-16

Pilot experiment: tree sapling estimated root biomass - July 2010

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Estimated data of individual root biomass of July 2010 in Pilot experiment (SP1) by the allometric equations. --- Including estimated root biomass data of block 1, 2 & 3, and the harvest data of block 4.

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Created at: 2013-07-24
Updated at: 2015-02-16

Tree and shrub species functional traits across a light-availability gradient in Dujiangyan

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Here we present the result from a two-year field experiment in which we transplanted seedlings of 14 woody species representing three contrasting functional types(broad-leaved evergreen, deciduous and coniferous species) along a light gradient int...

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Created at: 2013-08-22
Updated at: 2017-03-31

Tree and shrub seedlings functional traits from a transplant experiment in Dujiangyan

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Here we present the result from a two-year field experiment in which we transplanted seedlings of 14 woody species representing three contrasting functional types(broad-leaved evergreen, deciduous and coniferous species) along a light gradient int...

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People: 2
Projects: 1
Version: 3
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Created at: 2013-09-18
Updated at: 2015-05-26

Tree and shrub species functional traits in Dujiangyan

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We studied the three leaf traits leaf half-life (LHL), leaf mass per area (LMA) and nitrogen concentration in green leaves (Ngreen) and the wood trait wood density (WD) in 295 individuals belonging to 45 tree or shrub species in a Chinese subtropi...

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Created at: 2013-09-18
Updated at: 2015-05-27

Tree and shrub species growth data across a light-availability gradient in Dujiangyan

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Here we present the result from a two-year field experiment in which we transplanted seedlings of 14 woody species representing three contrasting functional types(broad-leaved evergreen, deciduous and coniferous species) along a light gradient int...

Id: 380
People: 2
Projects: 1
Version: 2
Attachments: 0
Created at: 2013-09-18
Updated at: 2016-02-18

Main Experiment: Tree size in the Main Experiment - Site A 2009-2012 & site B 2010-2012

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Several field studies have shown the positive effect of diversity on primary productivity in grasslands. However, little is known about forest ecosystems, the most productive vegetation type on Earth and responsible for more than 50 % of global n...

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Projects: 1
Version: 1
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Created at: 2013-09-20
Updated at: 2016-03-03

Pilot experiment: tree biomass allometry equations of saplings 2010/11

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The plant biomass allometry equations from the pilot experiment SP7 harvest in 2010 and 2011 which we used to estimate plant biomass.

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Created at: 2013-06-19
Updated at: 2017-03-31

Allometries: Tree species growth, biomass and crown data for detailed allometries

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In order to get tree growth curves we estabilshed an allometry campaign during which we carefully measured, subsampled, dried and then re-constructed the biomass of 154 trees belonging to 8 species. The sampling is done to allows estimation of bio...

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Created at: 2013-06-19
Updated at: 2017-01-26

CSPs: Tree growth of trees >10cm dbh in the CSPs (2008-2012)

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To test the effect of diversity on stand productivity, in summer 2018 and 2012 we measure the diameter at breast height (DBH) of alI individuals with a DBH of at least 10 cm. In 2012, we also measured the height (parallel to the stem if the tree w...

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Created at: 2016-04-11
Updated at: 2017-01-11

CSPs: Tree growth of trees with a DBH between 3 and 10cm in the CSPs (2008-2012)

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To test the effect of diversity on stand productivity, in summer 2018 and 2012 we measure the diameter at breast height (DBH) of alI individuals with a DBH between 3 and 10 cm in the central subplot of each CSP (the central subplot is a 10 x 10 m...

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People: 5
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Created at: 2016-04-11
Updated at: 2017-01-11

CSPs: LAI data in spring and summer of 2012

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To test the effect of diversity on leaf area index (LAI) we took hemispheric pictures in each CSP in early spring and in summer of 2012. Plots were divided into nine subplots and pictures of the canopy were taken in the center of each subplot, at...

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Version: 3
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Created at: 2016-04-12
Updated at: 2016-04-13

Main Experiment: list of plots (SP1: 2/3)

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Information about the plots in the Main Experiment: tree and shrub species richness (data from Z1), community composition (data from Z1), species presence/absence data, and plots that should be excluded for analysis at plot and species levels (e.g...

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People: 4
Projects: 1
Version: 1
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Created at: 2016-05-01
Updated at: 2016-05-01

Main Experiment: list of species (SP1: 3/3)

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This dataset contains list of species (names following Z1 nomenclature), species codes (used by Nadia Castro, SP1), and leaf habit and blade. This dataset was built to be used together with Main Experiment inventory data (N. Castro)

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Created at: 2016-05-01
Updated at: 2016-05-01

Main Experiment: inventory data (SP1: 1/3) Site A 2009-2012 and site B 2010-2013

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Several field studies have shown the positive effect of diversity on primary productivity in grasslands. However, little is known about forest ecosystems, the most productive vegetation type on Earth and responsible for more than 50 % of global ne...

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People: 5
Projects: 1
Version: 1
Attachments: 0
Created at: 2016-05-06
Updated at: 2016-05-11

Main Experiment: inventory data (SP1: 1a/3) Site A 2009-2012 and site B 2010-2013

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Several field studies have shown the positive effect of diversity on primary productivity in grasslands. However, little is known about forest ecosystems, the most productive vegetation type on Earth and responsible for more than 50 % of global ne...

Id: 527
People: 5
Projects: 1
Version: 1
Attachments: 0
Created at: 2016-05-06
Updated at: 2016-05-11

Pilot experiment: monthly growth (May 2009-February 2010)

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SP01 Pilot experiment monthly basal area and height growth. Species richness (1,2,4) can affect plant growth. We meassured monthly growth, to asses how these differences can affect growth in two different light conditions. We are particularly inte...

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Projects: 1
Version: 4
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Created at: 2013-09-24
Updated at: 2015-02-04

CSPs: Tree growth of trees >10cm dbh in the CSPs (2008-2010)

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CSP matching individuals with a DBH over 10 cm for the years 2008 and 2010 in the CSPs. DBH and BA measurements

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Projects: 0
Version: 2
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Created at: 2013-09-24
Updated at: 2016-03-03

Pilot experiment: monthly growth (March-September 2010)

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SP01 Pilot experiment monthly basal area and height growth. Species richness (1,2,4) can affect plant growth. We meassured monthly growth, to asses how these differences can affect growth in two different light conditions. We are particularly inte...

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People: 3
Projects: 1
Version: 3
Attachments: 0
Created at: 2013-09-24
Updated at: 2014-10-09

Main Experiment: Leaf demography in the Main Experiment - 2011

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Several field studies have shown the positive effect of diversity on primary productivity in grasslands. However, little is known about forest ecosystems, which are responsible for more than 50 % of global net primary productivity (NPP). In th...

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People: 4
Projects: 1
Version: 1
Attachments: 0
Created at: 2013-09-26
Updated at: 2016-03-03

Pilot experiment: biomass shade-light

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Data on the individual total dry biomass of the individuals in the center of each plot in the pilot experiment harvested in autumn 2010

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Projects: 1
Version: 3
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Created at: 2013-09-27
Updated at: 2015-05-20

Main Experiment: Herbivore damage in site A in summer 2009

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Leaf herbivory has been assessed on the 16 central individuals (8 when it is a monoculture) plots in order to test plant diversity effects and plant identity effects on arthropod herbivory. Differences of herbivory among the different feeding guil...

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Projects: 1
Version: 2
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Created at: 2013-09-28
Updated at: 2016-03-03

Pilot experiment: herbivore damage in fall 2010

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Leaf level herbivory of the four central individuals of the pilot experiment. The idea is to see if there are plant diversity effects on the level of damage experienced by the plants and if this effect is different among herbivors feeding guilds

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Projects: 1
Version: 6
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Created at: 2013-09-29
Updated at: 2015-02-16

Data for Schuldt et al. "Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests"

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Human-induced biodiversity change may impair ecosystem functions crucial to human well-being. However, the consequences of this change for ecosystem multifunctionality are poorly understood beyond effects of plant species loss, particularly in reg...

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Created at: 2018-04-23
Updated at: 2018-04-23
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A guide to analyzing biodiversity experiments

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Aims The aim of this guide is to provide practical help for ecologists who analyze data from biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments. Our approach differs from others in the use of least-squares based linear models (LMs) together with rest...

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Users: 3
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Attachments: 0
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2016-11-03

Leaf area increases with species richness in young experimental stands of subtropical trees

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Aims Most biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research has been carried out in grassland ecosystems, and little is known about whether forest ecosystems, in particular outside the temperate zone, respond similarly. Here, we tested whether the prod...

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Attachments: 0
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2016-11-03

Impact of species diversity, stand age and environmental factors on leaf litter decomposition in subtropical forests in China

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Tree diversity is considered to influence decomposition either by changing environmental conditions or by non-additive litter mixture effects. Thus, we examined the influence of tree species richness, forest age and environmental factors on single...

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Users: 14
Datafiles: 7
Attachments: 0
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-01-08
Updated at: 2016-01-08

Can niche plasticity promote biodiversity-productivity relationships through increased complementarity?

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Most experimental biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research to date has addressed herbaceous plant communities. Comparably little is known about how forest communities will respond to species losses, despite their importance for global biogeoc...

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Users: 8
Datafiles: 1
Attachments: 0
Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-08-17
Updated at: 2019-02-20

Decomposing functional trait associations in a Chinese subtropical forest

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Functional traits, properties of organisms correlated with ecological performance, play a cen- tral role in plant community assembly and functioning. To some extents, functional traits vary in concert, reflecting fundamental ecological strategie...

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Users: 6
Datafiles: 1
Attachments: 0
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2019-10-09
Updated at: 2019-10-09

Net Assimilation Rate Determines the Growth Rates of 14 Species of Subtropical Forest Trees

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Growth rates are of fundamental importance for plants, as individual size affects myriad ecological processes. We determined the factors that generate variation in RGR among 14 species of trees and shrubs that are abundant in subtropical Chinese...

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Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2019-10-09
Updated at: 2019-10-09

Predator diversity and abundance provide little support for the enemies hypothesis in forests of high tree diversity. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022905

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[14] Schuldt, A., Both, S., Bruelheide, H., Härdtle, W., Schmid, B., Zhou, H.Z. & Assmann, T. (2011): Predator diversity and abundance provide little support for the enemies hypothesis in forests of high tree diversity. - PloS One 6(7): e22905. (p...

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Attachments: 1
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2012-02-02
Updated at: 2013-01-18

Tree species traits but not diversity mitigate stem breakage in a subtropical forest following a rare and extreme ice storm

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Future climates are likely to include extreme events, which in turn have great impacts on ecological systems. In this study, we investigated possible effects that could mitigate stem breakage caused by a rare and extreme ice storm in a Chinese sub...

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Users: 33
Datafiles: 11
Attachments: 1
Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2010-03-16
Updated at: 2016-12-10

Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest. doi:10.1890/09-2172.1

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[5] Bruelheide, H., Böhnke, M., Both, S., Fang, T., Assmann, T., Baruffol, M., Bauhus, J., Buscot, F., Chen, X.-Y., Ding, B.-Y., Durka, W., Erfmeier, A., Fischer, M., Geißler, C., Guo, D., Guo, L.-D., Härdtle, W., He, J.-S., Hector, A., Kröber, W....

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Users: 39
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Attachments: 1
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2012-02-01
Updated at: 2013-01-18

Tree Diversity Enhances Stand Carbon Storage but Not Leaf Area in a Subtropical Forest

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Research about biodiversity–productivity relationships has focused on herbaceous ecosystems, with results from tree field studies only recently beginning to emerge. Also, the latter are concentrated largely in the temperate zone. Tree species dive...

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Users: 19
Datafiles: 7
Attachments: 0
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2017-01-31
Updated at: 2017-01-31

Establishment success in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in subtropical China (BEF-China).

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A) Does the sapling performance of early succession species and late succession species differs at the early stage of planting experiment? B) Does the sapling performance of evergreen species and deciduous species differs at the early stage of pl...

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Users: 10
Datafiles: 1
Attachments: 1
Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2010-05-04
Updated at: 2015-04-25

Plant traits affecting susceptibility to herbivory of tree recruits in highly diverse subtropical forests

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Differences in herbivory among woody species can greatly affect the functioning of forest ecosystems, particularly in species-rich (sub)tropical regions. However, the relative importance of the different plant traits which determine herbivore dama...

Id: 150
Users: 12
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Attachments: 0
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2015-03-09
Updated at: 2015-03-09

Biodiversity Promotes Tree Growth during Succession in Subtropical Forest

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Losses of plant species diversity can affect ecosystem functioning, with decreased primary productivity being the most frequently reported effect in experimental plant assemblages, including tree plantations. Less is known about the role of biodiv...

Id: 100
Users: 18
Datafiles: 7
Attachments: 1
Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2013-11-27
Updated at: 2015-11-27

Seasonal characteristics and determinants of tree growth in a Chinese subtropical forest

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Aims 18 To quantify the seasonal differences in effects of leaf habit, species identity, initial diameter, neighborhood interaction and stand environment on tree absolute diameter growth rates in a subtropical forest in China. Methods We used m...

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Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2018-11-03

Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

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Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments address ecosystem-level consequences of species loss by comparing communities of high species richness with communities from which species have been gradually eliminated. BEF experiments origina...

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Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2015-01-27
Updated at: 2017-06-16

Tree diversity increases levels of herbivore damage in a subtropical forest canopy: evidence for dietary mixing by arthropods?

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Aims Plant diversity has been linked to both increasing and decreasing levels of arthropod herbivore damage in different plant communities. So far, these links have mainly been studied in grasslands or in artificial tree plantations with low spe...

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Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2018-11-30

Positive effects of tree species diversity on litterfall quantity and quality along a secondary successional chronosequence in a subtropical forest

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Aims Litterfall, as the link between aboveground and belowground processes, plays a key role in forest ecosystems. Here, we test for effects of species richness on litterfall production and litter quality. The study encompasses a factorial gradie...

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Users: 3
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Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2016-11-03

Mechanisms promoting tree species co-existence: Experimental evidence with saplings of subtropical forest ecosystems of China

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Questions The maintenance of a diverse sapling pool is of particular importance for the regeneration and persistance of species-rich forest ecosystems. However, the mechanisms of co-existence of saplings have rarely been studied experimentally. D...

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Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2015-01-27
Updated at: 2017-02-09

On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems - a study from SE China

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Aims The aim of our research was to understand small-scale effects of topography and soil fertility on tree growth in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiment in subtropical SE China. Methods Geomorphometric terrain an...

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Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2016-11-03

Positive effects of tree species richness on fine-root production in a subtropical forest in SE-China

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Aims Fine roots play an important role in the biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial ecosystems and are vital for understanding forest ecosystem functioning and services. Higher plant species diversity has been largely reported to increase abovegro...

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Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2018-11-30

Inter- and intraspecific variation in specific root length drives aboveground biodiversity effects in young experimental forest stands

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Aims Although the net biodiversity effect (NE) can be statistically partitioned into complementarity and selection effects (CE and SE), there are different underlying mechanisms that can cause a certain partitioning. Our objective was to assess t...

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Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2018-11-30

Impact of tree diversity and environmental conditions on the survival of shrub species in a forest biodiversity experiment in subtropical China

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Aims Although shrubs are an important component of forests, their role has not yet been considered in forest biodiversity experiments. In the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiment with subtropical tree species in south-east China (...

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Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-03
Updated at: 2016-11-03

Community assembly of ectomycorrhizal fungi along a subtropical secondary forest succession

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 Environmental selection and dispersal limitation are two of the primary processes structuring biotic communities in ecosystems, but little is known about these processes in shaping the soil microbial community during secondary forest succession....

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Users: 26
Datafiles: 16
Attachments: 1
Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2012-02-23
Updated at: 2015-04-25

Early positive effects of tree species richness on herbivory in a large-scale forest biodiversity experiment influence tree growth

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Despite the importance of herbivory for the structure and functioning of species-rich forests, little is known about how herbivory is affected by tree species richness, and more specifically by random versus nonrandom species loss. We assessed her...

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Users: 16
Datafiles: 6
Attachments: 0
Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2014-08-20
Updated at: 2017-03-10

Effect of clear-cutting silviculture on soil respiration in a subtropical forest of China

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Aims Clear-cutting is a common forest management practice, especially in subtropical China. However, the potential ecological consequences of clear-cutting remain unclear. In particular, the effect of clear-cutting on soil processes, such as the ...

Id: 205
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Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2016-11-29
Updated at: 2016-11-29

Horizontal, but not vertical canopy structure is related to stand functional diversity in a subtropical slope forest (DOI: 10.1007/s11284-011-0887-3

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In biodiversity research, niche complementarity is seen as one mechanism with which species coexistence is maintained. Niche complementarity also results in a more efficient use of the total resource pool, and thus, species-rich communities should...

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Users: 15
Datafiles: 4
Attachments: 2
Board: Final
State: Accepted
Created at: 2011-01-12
Updated at: 2015-04-25

Effects of tree sapling diversity and nutrient addition on herb-layer invasibility in young experimental communities of subtropical species

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Exotic species are assumed to alter ecosystem functioning. However, little is known of the relationships within vertically structured plant communities such as forests, where tree saplings interact with herbaceous species, especially in the early ...

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Users: 7
Datafiles: 0
Attachments: 2
Board: Prep
State: Accepted
Created at: 2010-05-31
Updated at: 2015-02-09

Woody plant phylogenetic diversity mediates bottom-up control of arthropod biomass in a species-rich forest

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Effects of global change are predicted to cause non-random species loss in plant communities, with important consequences for ecosystem functioning. However, little is known about how plant diversity and the loss of this diversity influence the st...

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Attachments: 0
Board: Accept
State: Accepted
Created at: 2013-12-12
Updated at: 2015-02-25
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