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Know Your Neighbours: Drought Response of Norway Spruce, Silver Fir and Douglas Fir in Mixed Forests Depends on Species Identity and Diversity of Tree Neighbourhoods

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The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

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Mixing of Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) enhances structural heterogeneity, and the effect increases with water availability

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Drought responses by individual tree species are not often correlated with tree species diversity in European forests

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A Review of Processes Behind Diversity—Productivity Relationships in Forests

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Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: linking patterns and processes

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(2014) Hans Pretzsch   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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The spatial and temporal dynamics of species interactions in mixed-species forests: From pattern to process

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Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

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