Tree Species Traits but Not Diversity Mitigate Stem Breakage in a Subtropical Forest following a Rare and Extreme Ice Storm
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in: PLoS ONE, Jahrgang 9, Nr. 5, e96022, 30.05.2014.
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T1 - Tree Species Traits but Not Diversity Mitigate Stem Breakage in a Subtropical Forest following a Rare and Extreme Ice Storm
AU - Nadrowski, Karin
AU - Pietsch, Katherina
AU - Baruffol, Martin
AU - Both, Sabine
AU - Gutknecht, Jessica
AU - Bruelheide, Helge
AU - Heklau, Heike
AU - Kahl, Anja
AU - Kahl, Tiemo
AU - Niklaus, Pascal A.
AU - Kröber, Wenzel
AU - Liu, Xiaojuan
AU - Mi, Xiangcheng
AU - Michalski, Stefan G
AU - Oheimb, Goddert
AU - Purschke, Oliver
AU - Schmid, Bernhard
AU - Fang, Teng
AU - Welk, Erik
AU - Wirth, Christian
PY - 2014/5/30
Y1 - 2014/5/30
N2 - 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 subtropical forest across a gradient of forest diversity. We used Bayesian modeling to correct stem breakage for tree size and variance components analysis to quantify the influence of taxon, leaf and wood functional traits, and stand level properties on the probability of stem breakage. We show that the taxon explained four times more variance in individual stem breakage than did stand level properties; trees with higher specific leaf area (SLA) were less susceptible to breakage. However, a large part of the variation at the taxon scale remained unexplained, implying that unmeasured or undefined traits could be used to predict damage caused by ice storms. When aggregated at the plot level, functional diversity and wood density increased after the ice storm. We suggest that for the adaption of forest management to climate change, much can still be learned from looking at functional traits at the taxon level.
AB - 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 subtropical forest across a gradient of forest diversity. We used Bayesian modeling to correct stem breakage for tree size and variance components analysis to quantify the influence of taxon, leaf and wood functional traits, and stand level properties on the probability of stem breakage. We show that the taxon explained four times more variance in individual stem breakage than did stand level properties; trees with higher specific leaf area (SLA) were less susceptible to breakage. However, a large part of the variation at the taxon scale remained unexplained, implying that unmeasured or undefined traits could be used to predict damage caused by ice storms. When aggregated at the plot level, functional diversity and wood density increased after the ice storm. We suggest that for the adaption of forest management to climate change, much can still be learned from looking at functional traits at the taxon level.
KW - Biology
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0096022
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0096022
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 24879434
VL - 9
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 5
M1 - e96022
ER -