Establishment success in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in subtropical China (BEF-China)

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 593-606

  Yang, Xuefei ^a,i   Bauhus, Jürgen ^b   Both, Sabine ^a   Fang, Teng ^c   Härdtle, Werner ^d   Kröber, Wenzel ^a   Ma, Keping ^e   Nadrowski, Karin ^f   Pei, Kequan ^e   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^b   Scholten, Thomas ^g   Seidler, Gunnar ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^h   von Oheimb, Goddert ^d   Bruelheide, Helge ^a,j  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Gutianshan National Nature Reserve   (China)

^d LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^j GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

BEF China; Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Forest plantation success; Jiangxi; Seedling performance; Tree diversity experiment

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURVIVAL;

CHINA; JIANGXI;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84879226868     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-013-0696-z     Document Type: Article

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