Climate modulates the effects of tree diversity on forest productivity

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 388-398

  Jucker, Tommaso ^a   Avăcăritei, Daniel ^b   Bărnoaiea, Ionut ^b   Duduman, Gabriel ^b   Bouriaud, Olivier ^b   Coomes, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STEFAN CEL MARE UNIVERSITY OF SUCEAVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Above ground wood production; Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Context dependency; FunDivEUROPE project; Plant climate interactions; Stress gradient hypothesis; Tree packing density; Tree ring data

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE RING; WOOD;

EUROPE;

EID: 84958912388     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12522     Document Type: Article

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