Tree neighbourhood matters - tree species composition drives diversity-productivity patterns in a near-natural beech forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 335, Issue , 2015, Pages 225-234

  Ratcliffe, Sophia ^a   Holzwarth, Frédéric ^a   Nadrowski, Karin ^a   Levick, Shaun ^b   Wirth, Christian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Basal area increment; Competition index; Diversity productivity; Neighbourhood diversity

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA INCREMENT; BEECH FOREST; COMPETITION INDEX; NEIGHBOURHOOD; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE USE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; GERMANY;

FAGUS;

EID: 84908565196     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.09.032     Document Type: Article

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