Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment
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T1 - Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment
AU - Huang, Yuanyuan
AU - Chen, Yuxin
AU - Castro-Izaguirre, Nadia
AU - Baruffol, Martin
AU - Brezzi, Matteo
AU - Lang, Anne
AU - Li, Ying
AU - Härdtle, Werner
AU - Von Oheimb, Goddert
AU - Yang, Xuefei
AU - Liu, Xiaojuan
AU - Pei, Kequan
AU - Both, Sabine
AU - Yang, Bo
AU - Eichenberg, David
AU - Assmann, Thorsten
AU - Bauhus, Jürgen
AU - Behrens, Thorsten
AU - Buscot, François
AU - Chen, Xiao Yong
AU - Chesters, Douglas
AU - Ding, Bing Yang
AU - Durka, Walter
AU - Erfmeier, Alexandra
AU - Fang, Jingyun
AU - Fischer, Markus
AU - Guo, Liang Dong
AU - Guo, Dali
AU - Gutknecht, Jessica L.M.
AU - He, Jin Sheng
AU - He, Chun-Ling
AU - Hector, Andy
AU - Hönig, Lydia
AU - Hu, Ren Yong
AU - Klein, Alexandra Maria
AU - Kühn, Peter
AU - Liang, Yu
AU - Li, Shan
AU - Michalski, Stefan
AU - Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael
AU - Schmidt, Karsten
AU - Scholten, Thomas
AU - Schuldt, Andreas
AU - Shi, Xuezheng
AU - Tan, Man Zhi
AU - Tang, Zhiyao
AU - Trogisch, Stefan
AU - Wang, Zhengwen
AU - Welk, Erik
AU - Wirth, Christian
AU - Wubet, Tesfaye
AU - Xiang, Wenhua
AU - Yu, Mingjian
AU - Yu, Xiao-Dong
AU - Zhang, Jiayong
AU - Zhang, Shouren
AU - Zhang, Naili
AU - Zhou, Hong-Zhang
AU - Zhu, Chao-Dong
AU - Zhu, Li
AU - Bruelheide, Helge
AU - Ma, Keping
AU - Niklaus, Pascal A.
AU - Schmid, Bernhard
PY - 2018/10/5
Y1 - 2018/10/5
N2 - Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to terrestrial primary productivity, requires large-scale experiments.We manipulated tree species richness by planting more than 150,000 trees in plots with 1 to 16 species. Simulating multiple extinction scenarios, we found that richness strongly increased stand-level productivity. After 8 years, 16-species mixtures had accumulated over twice the amount of carbon found in average monocultures and similar amounts as those of two commercial monocultures. Species richness effects were strongly associated with functional and phylogenetic diversity. A shrub addition treatment reduced tree productivity, but this reduction was smaller at high shrub species richness. Our results encourage multispecies afforestation strategies to restore biodiversity and mitigate climate change.
AB - Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to terrestrial primary productivity, requires large-scale experiments.We manipulated tree species richness by planting more than 150,000 trees in plots with 1 to 16 species. Simulating multiple extinction scenarios, we found that richness strongly increased stand-level productivity. After 8 years, 16-species mixtures had accumulated over twice the amount of carbon found in average monocultures and similar amounts as those of two commercial monocultures. Species richness effects were strongly associated with functional and phylogenetic diversity. A shrub addition treatment reduced tree productivity, but this reduction was smaller at high shrub species richness. Our results encourage multispecies afforestation strategies to restore biodiversity and mitigate climate change.
KW - Sustainability Science
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7159c43c-2dea-32d0-bee1-def96d1550da/
U2 - 10.1126/science.aat6405
DO - 10.1126/science.aat6405
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 30287660
AN - SCOPUS:85054469104
VL - 362
SP - 80
EP - 83
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6410
ER -