Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation across European forests
Autores
Ruiz Benito, Paloma; Ratcliffe, Sophia; Jump, Alistair S; Gómez-Aparicio, Lorena; Madrigal González, Jaime; [et al.]Identificadores
Enlace permanente (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37687DOI: 10.1111/geb.12515
ISSN: 1466-822X
Fecha de publicación
2017Cita bibliográfica
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2017, v. 26, n. , p. 128-141
Palabras clave
Boreal biome
Climate warming
Forest succession
FunDivEUROPE
Growth
Mediterranean biome
Mortality
Plant functional traits
Recruitment
Temperate biome
Tipo de documento
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Versión
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Resumen
Biodiversity loss and climate‐driven ecosystem modification are leading to substantial changes in forest structure and function. However, the effects of diversity on demographic responses to the environment are poorly understood. We tested the diversity hypothesis (measured through functional diversity) and the mass ratio hypothesis (measured through functional identity) in relation to tree growth, tree mortality and sapling abundance. We sought to determine whether functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests. We used data from five European national forest inventories from boreal to Mediterranean biomes (c. 700,000 trees in 54,000 plots and 143 tree species) and the main forest types across Europe (i.e. from needle‐leaved evergreen forests to broad‐leaved deciduous forests). For each forest type, we applied maximum likelihood techniques to quantify the relative importance of stand structure, climate and diversity (i.e. functional diversity and functional identity) as determinants of growth, mortality and sapling abundance. We also tested whether demographic responses to environmental conditions (including stand density, evapotranspiration and temperature anomalies) varied with functional diversity.
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