Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1526-1535

  Morin, Xavier ^a,b   Fahse, Lorenz ^a,c   de Mazancourt, Claire ^d   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^e   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Ecosystem predictability; Forests; Gap model; Insurance hypothesis; Productivity; Stability; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GAP DYNAMICS; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EUROPE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TIME; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84936762025     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12357     Document Type: Article

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