Aboveground primary productivity in forest ecosystems as a function of species diversity and composition

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Pascal A. Niklaus
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems ; Organismic Interactions, Chemical Ecology and Microbiomes of Plant Systems
• Term: from 2008 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 35758305

• Final Report Year: 2018

Final Report Abstract

Overall, our results indicate that tree species richness is important in promoting the productivity of both young and old subtropical forest stands. These findings are in contrast with expectations that the functional redundancy among subtropical tree species should be higher than among tree species of the temperate zone, and corresponding effects of biodiversity thus smaller.

Publications

• (2013). Biodiversity promotes tree growth during succession in subtropical forest. PLoS ONE 8(11): e81246
  Baruffol M, Schmid B, Bruelheide H, Chi X, Hector A, Ma K, Michalski S, Tang Z, Niklaus PA
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081246)
• (2016). Net assimilation rate determines the growth rates of 14 species of subtropical forest trees. PLoS one 11: e0150644
  Li X, Schmid B, Wang F, Paine CET
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150644)
• (2016). Tree diversity enhances stand carbon storage but not lead area in a subtropical forest. PLoS one 11(12): e0167771
  Castro-Izaguirre N, Chi X, Tang Z, Ma KP, Schmid B, Niklaus PA
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167771)
• (2017) Can niche plasticity promote biodiversityproductivity relationships through increased complementarity? Ecology
  Niklaus PA, Baruffol M, He JS, Ma KP, Schmid B
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1748)
• (2017) Positive effects of tree species diversity on litterfall quantity and quality along a secondary successional chronosequence in a subtropical forest. Journal of Plant Ecology 10: 28-35
  Huang Y, Ma Y, Zhao K, Niklaus PA, Schmid B, Jin-Sheng H
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw115)
• (2017). A guide to analyzing biodiversity experiments. Journal of Plant Ecology 10: 91-110
  Schmid B, Baruffol M, Wang Z, Niklaus PA
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw107)
• (2017). Biodiversity: Complementary canopies. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1: 0104
  Schmid B, Niklaus PA
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0104)
• (2017). Decomposing functional trait associations in a Chinese subtropical forest. PLoS ONE 12: e0175727
  Li X, Pei KQ, Kery M, Niklaus PA, Schmid B
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175727)
• (2017). Leaf area increases with species richness in young experimental stands of subtropical trees. Journal of Plant Ecology 10:128-135
  Peng S, Schmid B, Alexander F, Niklaus PA
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw016)
• (2017). Positive effects of tree species richness on fineroot production and biomass. Journal of Plant Ecology 10: 146-157
  Sun ZK, Liu XJ, Schmid B, Bruelheide H, Ma K
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw094)