Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

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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.

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CommentIn: Science. 2019 Jan 11;363(6423):null. - PMID 30630903

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:362

Enthalten in:

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 362(2018), 6410 vom: 05. Okt., Seite 80-83

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Yuanyuan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yuxin [VerfasserIn]
Castro-Izaguirre, Nadia [VerfasserIn]
Baruffol, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Brezzi, Matteo [VerfasserIn]
Lang, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Härdtle, Werner [VerfasserIn]
von Oheimb, Goddert [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xuefei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaojuan [VerfasserIn]
Pei, Kequan [VerfasserIn]
Both, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Eichenberg, David [VerfasserIn]
Assmann, Thorsten [VerfasserIn]
Bauhus, Jürgen [VerfasserIn]
Behrens, Thorsten [VerfasserIn]
Buscot, François [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xiao-Yong [VerfasserIn]
Chesters, Douglas [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Bing-Yang [VerfasserIn]
Durka, Walter [VerfasserIn]
Erfmeier, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Jingyun [VerfasserIn]
Fischer, Markus [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Liang-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Dali [VerfasserIn]
Gutknecht, Jessica L M [VerfasserIn]
He, Jin-Sheng [VerfasserIn]
He, Chun-Ling [VerfasserIn]
Hector, Andy [VerfasserIn]
Hönig, Lydia [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Ren-Yong [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Alexandra-Maria [VerfasserIn]
Kühn, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Shan [VerfasserIn]
Michalski, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, Karsten [VerfasserIn]
Scholten, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Schuldt, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Xuezheng [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Man-Zhi [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Zhiyao [VerfasserIn]
Trogisch, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhengwen [VerfasserIn]
Welk, Erik [VerfasserIn]
Wirth, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Wubet, Tesfaye [VerfasserIn]
Xiang, Wenhua [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Mingjian [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Xiao-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jiayong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shouren [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Naili [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Hong-Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Chao-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Li [VerfasserIn]
Bruelheide, Helge [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Keping [VerfasserIn]
Niklaus, Pascal A [VerfasserIn]
Schmid, Bernhard [VerfasserIn]

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7440-44-0
Carbon
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 09.01.2019

Date Revised 09.01.2019

published: Print

Dryad: 10.5061/dryad.t86145r

CommentIn: Science. 2019 Jan 11;363(6423):null. - PMID 30630903

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1126/science.aat6405

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM289230411