Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Andreas Schuldt, Xiaojuan Liu, Francois Buscot, Helge Bruelheide, Alexandra Erfmeier, Jin-Sheng He, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Keping Ma, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Thomas Scholten, Zhiyao Tang, Stefan Trogisch, Christian Wirth, Tesfaye Wubet, Michael Staab
Summary: Carbon-focused climate mitigation strategies are important in forests, but we need better understanding of their impact on biodiversity. A study using a large dataset from subtropical forests found that aboveground carbon was not strongly related to multitrophic diversity, while total carbon including belowground carbon was a significant predictor. Relationships were nonlinear and strongest for lower trophic levels. Tree species richness and stand age influenced these relationships, suggesting long-term forest regeneration is effective in reconciling carbon and biodiversity targets. This highlights the need to carefully evaluate the biodiversity benefits of climate-oriented management.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Xiangyin Ni, Chengfang Lin, Guangshui Chen, Jinsheng Xie, Zhijie Yang, Xiaofei Liu, Decheng Xiong, Chao Xu, Kai Yue, Fuzhong Wu, Yusheng Yang
Summary: The rapid conversion of natural broadleaved forests to plantations in subtropical China has led to a significant decline in soil fertility. This decline is primarily due to lower litter production and slow nutrient release in plantations compared to natural forests.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Soil Science
Hong Lin, Yinong Li, Helge Bruelheide, Sirong Zhang, Haibao Ren, Naili Zhang, Keping Ma
Summary: The study found that leaf litter species composition affects decomposition rates, with a stronger impact over time. Additionally, above-ground tree species richness plays a critical role in regulating litter decomposition, particularly in the late stage.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Yan-Mei Fu, Xiu-Yue Zhang, Dan-Dan Qi, Fu-Juan Feng
Summary: The study found that leaf litter decomposition rate was significantly higher in the primary Korean pine forest compared to the secondary broad-leaved forest. The main chemical quality of leaf litter in the broad-leaved forest had a higher remaining percent mass than in the pine forest, indicating a faster chemical turnover in the latter. Actinomycetes PLFA biomass played a crucial role in leaf litter decomposition, while soil abiotic factors indirectly influenced decomposition through interactions with actinomycetes.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Sandra Cristina Muller, Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin, Kauane Maiara Bordin, Joice Klipel, Milena Fermina Rosenfield
Summary: Secondary forests originate from natural regeneration after fallow or restoration, with species assembly affecting ecosystem functions. Trait-based trajectories can predict how regenerating communities will change with forest age. Leaf traits and seed mass vary with forest age, while canopy functional composition predicts functional dissimilarity. Functional diversity is influenced by forest age, with mid-stage forests showing lower diversity. Canopy traits are important for natural regeneration of secondary subtropical forests.
FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Anna Repo, Tuomas Rajala, Helena M. Henttonen, Aleksi Lehtonen, Mikko Peltoniemi, Juha Heikkinen
Summary: The study highlights the importance of understanding the differences in biomass accumulation rates in different types of boreal forests under varying environmental conditions, such as on peatlands and mineral soils. The developed models can have practical implications for activities such as life-cycle assessments, carbon mapping, and predicting biomass stock development.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Water Resources
Xiaodong Liu, Yingjie Feng, Peiling Liu, Qianmei Zhang, Brian Njoroge, Qing Zhou, Xianhua Gan, Weiqiang Zhang, Yuelin Li
Summary: This study focuses on the dynamics of litter moisture content in lower subtropical China and reveals that the litter moisture content increased after vegetation restoration and was higher during the wet season compared to the dry season. Soil water content is the main factor controlling the dynamics of litter moisture content, and the litter layer is more sensitive to changes in external environmental factors.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jiejie Sun, Bo Jiang, Weigao Yuan, Jinru Zhu, Jiejie Jiao, Danting Wu, Hui Xia, Xuan Xu, Chuping Wu
Summary: Global climate change and human activities have threatened forest biodiversity and productivity. Understanding the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship is crucial for forest management. Research shows different correlations between biomass and environmental factors in pine forests, mixed forests, and broad-leaved forests, suggesting the need for differentiated management plans. Positive management is recommended for pine forests and mixed forests, while allowing natural succession in broad-leaved forests.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xianming Li, Xun Wang, Wei Yuan, Zhiyun Lu, Dingyong Wang
Summary: The study reveals that litterfall mercury deposition and decomposition increase with elevation in montane forests, with windward slope forests showing significantly higher litterfall mercury deposition at the same altitude. The dynamics of mercury in decomposing litter are controlled by temperature-mediated litter decomposition rate and additional adsorption of environmental mercury during decomposition.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Wende Yan, Taimoor Hassan Farooq, Yi Chen, Wancai Wang, Rubab Shabbir, Uttam Kumar, Muhammad Umair Riaz, Saqer S. Alotaibi, Yuanying Peng, Xiaoyong Chen
Summary: Nitrogen is a limiting nutrient for forest growth and production worldwide. Litterfall plays a crucial role in returning nutrients from trees to the soil and affecting nitrogen availability. The study shows that changes in litterfall inputs significantly affect soil nitrogen dynamics and mixed forests have higher nutrient returns.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Chang Liao, Chunyan Long, Qian Zhang, Xiaoli Cheng
Summary: This study conducted a field litter decomposition experiment in subtropical China, evaluating the effects of litter quality, morphology, and microbial activity on phosphorus (P) loss in leaf and fine root litter of three different species. The results showed that P loss was primarily controlled by microbes, and there were different correlations between leaf and root P loss. Litter quality had a greater impact on leaf P loss, while morphology had a greater impact on root P loss during the decomposition process.
Article
Microbiology
Siqi Tao, G. F. (Ciska) Veen, Naili Zhang, Tianhe Yu, Laiye Qu
Summary: Plant diversity plays a crucial role in plant community productivity, and this study demonstrates that bacterial and archaeal communities are important drivers of the relationship between plant diversity and productivity in subtropical forests. The research shows that tree and shrub richness affect tree productivity by regulating bacterial and archaeal community diversity and composition.
Article
Forestry
Yuanqi Chen, Shengfu Chen, Bohan Zhang, Xiaotong Ma, Xiaotong Liu, Ying Huang, Yu Zhang
Summary: This study examines the decomposition and nutrient dynamics of leaf litter and fine roots in an urban forest in subtropical China. The results show that the leaf litter decomposition rate and nutrient mineralization rate are faster for Elaeocarpus decipiens compared to Cinnamomum officinarum. Soil microbial biomass has different effects on leaf litter decomposition and fine root decomposition. Elaeocarpus decipiens has higher leaf litter production and nutrient storage, suggesting faster decomposition rate and nutrient return.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Takashi Osono, Syuntaro Hiradate, Satoru Hobara
Summary: The study conducted in a subtropical forest in Japan showed that bleached leaf litter exhibited different chemical characteristics over time, with faster mass loss and lower content of recalcitrant compounds. Bleaching plays a dominant role in the decomposition of leaf litter, accelerating the transformation and turnover of organic compounds and nitrogen.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Bing Mao, Tingting Cui, Tongqing Su, Qiangsheng Xu, Feng Lu, Hongxin Su, Jianbing Zhang, Shuangshuang Xiao
Summary: Litter decomposition is a crucial process for nutrient cycling and carbon budgets in mixed forests. However, there is limited knowledge about the response of soil microbial processes to the mixed-litter decomposition of fresh leaf, semi-decomposed leaf, and fine root. In this study, a laboratory microcosm experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of mixed-litter decomposition on soil enzyme activity and microbial community in a karst forest in Southwest China. The results showed that the presence of fresh leaf litter had a significant influence on mixed-litter decomposition and soil enzyme activity. Furthermore, litter N concentration and the initial quality of litter played important roles in the decomposition process.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Forest Isbell, Patricia Balvanera, Akira S. Mori, Jin-Sheng He, James M. Bullock, Ganga Ram Regmi, Eric W. Seabloom, Simon Ferrier, Osvaldo E. Sala, Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramirez, Julia Tavella, Daniel J. Larkin, Bernhard Schmid, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Pairot Pramual, Elizabeth T. Borer, Michel Loreau, Taiwo Crossby Omotoriogun, David O. Obura, Maggie Anderson, Cristina Portales-Reyes, Kevin Kirkman, Pablo M. Vergara, Adam Thomas Clark, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Owen L. Petchey, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Laura J. Williams, Scott L. Collins, Nico Eisenhauer, Christopher H. Trisos, Delphine Renard, Alexandra J. Wright, Poonam Tripathi, Jane Cowles, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Peter B. Reich, Andy Purvis, Zati Sharip, Mary O'Connor, Clare E. Kazanski, Nick M. Haddad, Eulogio H. Soto, Laura E. Dee, Sandra Diaz, Chad R. Zirbel, Meghan L. Avolio, Shaopeng Wang, Zhiyuan Ma, Jingjing Liang, Hanan C. Farah, Justin Andrew Johnson, Brian W. Miller, Yann Hautier, Melinda D. Smith, Johannes M. H. Knops, Bonnie J. E. Myers, Zuzana Harmackova, Jorge Cortes, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Andrew Gonzalez, Tim Newbold, Jacqueline Oehri, Marina Mazon, Cynnamon Dobbs, Meredith S. Palmer
Summary: Despite progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, there are still taxonomic and geographic knowledge gaps. Decision makers often rely on expert judgement, but cannot engage with large and diverse groups of specialists. A survey of biodiversity experts worldwide revealed consensus and differences in perspectives and estimates, with underrepresented groups recommending different conservation priorities and providing higher estimates of biodiversity loss.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Tian Ma, Zhiying Yang, Biwan Shi, Wenjing Gao, Yifan Li, Jianxiao Zhu, Jin-Sheng He
Summary: Increased nitrogen and phosphorus inputs have significant effects on soil organic carbon composition and dynamics. However, the responses of plant-derived and microbial-derived SOC components to N and P addition in alpine grasslands are not well understood. A 10-year N and P addition experiment in Tibetan Plateau grasslands revealed that P and N + P addition decreased microbial necromass, while N addition had no significant effect. The addition of P increased lignin phenols in the topsoil, but N addition decreased them in the subsoil. In addition, the ratio of fungi-to-bacteria necromass carbon and amino sugars to lignin phenols decreased with P supply, indicating a potential increase in SOC loss.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Andreas Schuldt, Xiaojuan Liu, Francois Buscot, Helge Bruelheide, Alexandra Erfmeier, Jin-Sheng He, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Keping Ma, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Thomas Scholten, Zhiyao Tang, Stefan Trogisch, Christian Wirth, Tesfaye Wubet, Michael Staab
Summary: Carbon-focused climate mitigation strategies are important in forests, but we need better understanding of their impact on biodiversity. A study using a large dataset from subtropical forests found that aboveground carbon was not strongly related to multitrophic diversity, while total carbon including belowground carbon was a significant predictor. Relationships were nonlinear and strongest for lower trophic levels. Tree species richness and stand age influenced these relationships, suggesting long-term forest regeneration is effective in reconciling carbon and biodiversity targets. This highlights the need to carefully evaluate the biodiversity benefits of climate-oriented management.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Iris Hordijk, Daniel S. Maynard, Simon P. Hart, Lidong Mo, Hans ter Steege, Jingjing Liang, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Meinrad Abegg, C. Yves Adou Yao, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio V. Alvarado, Alvarez-Davila Esteban, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Christian Ammer, Clara Anton-Fernandez, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Timothy Baker, Radomir Balazy, Olaf Banki, Jorcely Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Jean-Francois Bastin, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Robin Chazdon, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David B. Clark, Gabriel Colletta, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jose J. Corral-Rivas, Philip Crim, Jonathan Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Andre L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Geraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Amaral Ieda, Aurelie Dourdain, Engone Obiang Nestor Laurier, Brian Enquist, Teresa Eyre, Adande Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Leandro V. Ferreira, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leena Finer, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David Harris, Andrew Hector, Andrea Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Herault, John Herbohn, Annika Hillers, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Hyunkook Cho, Thomas Ibanez, Il Bin Jung, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Johanssen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Koehl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon Lewis, Huicu Lu, Natalia Lukina, Brian Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew Robert Marshall, Emanuel Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo-Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Miscicki Stanislaw, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, Maria G. Nava-Miranda, David Neill, Victor Neldner, Radovan Nevenic, Michael Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alain Paquette, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Elena Parfenova, Minjee Park, Mar Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Maria Teresa Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Irina Polo, Lourens Poorter, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo-Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schongart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimir Seben, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Shvidenko, Javier Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plini Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonke, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Sterenczak, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Raquel Thomas, Elen Tikhonova, Peter Umunay, Vladimir Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van Der Plas, Do Van Tran, Michael E. Van Nuland, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua-Feng Wang, James Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Susan K. Wiser, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Roderick Zagt, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Mo Zhou, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie Casimir Zo-Bi, Thomas W. Crowther
Summary: Biodiversity is important for ecosystems, with higher species richness often leading to increased productivity. However, the relationship between biodiversity and productivity varies across environments and is less pronounced at high levels of species richness. Community evenness can mediate this relationship, and our study shows that it is negatively correlated with species richness and plays a crucial role in the biodiversity-productivity relationship.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Heng Zhang, Elvira Machler, Felix Morsdorf, Michael E. Schaepman, Florian Altermatt, Pascal A. Niklaus
Summary: Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are connected through spatial flows, integrating biodiversity and suggesting a spatial association. By combining satellite remote sensing and environmental DNA extraction from river water, a study reveals a spatial land-water fingerprint. The riverine eDNA diversity is found to be associated with the spectral diversity of terrestrial ecosystems upstream, peaking at a distance of 400 m and detectable up to a radius of 2.0 km. These findings provide important spatially explicit information for understanding land-water linkages.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuel E. Wuest, Lukas Schulz, Surbhi Rana, Julia Frommelt, Merten Ehmig, Nuno D. Pires, Ueli Grossniklaus, Christian S. Hardtke, Ulrich Z. Hammes, Bernhard Schmid, Pascal A. Niklaus
Summary: In plant communities, the positive diversity effects are often attributed to complementary niches occupied by different species or genotypes. However, the specific nature of niche complementarity, including how it is expressed in terms of trait differences between plants, remains unclear.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rui Yin, Wenkuan Qin, Xudong Wang, Dong Xie, Hao Wang, Hongyang Zhao, Zhenhua Zhang, Jin-Sheng He, Martin Schaedler, Paul Kardol, Nico Eisenhauer, Biao Zhu
Summary: Experimental soil warming in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau showed that it promoted plant growth, soil microbial respiration, and soil fauna feeding. However, it caused changes in their phenology, creating mismatches between organisms. This phenological asynchrony may have implications for ecosystem functioning and stability.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Yonghui Wang, Chao Wang, Fei Ren, Xin Jing, Wenhong Ma, Jin-Sheng He, Lin Jiang
Summary: While anthropogenic eutrophication is known to impair aboveground stability, its effects on belowground stability remain poorly understood. In a nitrogen and phosphorus addition experiment in a Tibetan alpine grassland, the synchronization of grasses, the most abundant plant functional group, reduced their stability, which in turn impaired aboveground stability, but this was a poor predictor of belowground stability responses. This suggests that the ecological consequences of nutrient enrichment on ecosystem stability cannot be accurately predicted from the responses of aboveground components, highlighting the need for a better understanding of belowground ecosystem dynamics.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Laura Argens, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Markus Lange, Yvonne Oelmann, Christiane Roscher, Holger Schielzeth, Bernhard Schmid, Wolfgang Wilcke, Sebastian T. Meyer
Summary: Ecosystem management aims to provide multiple ecosystem services simultaneously. The multifunctionality of ecosystem services can be limited by tradeoffs and enhanced by synergies among underlying ecosystem functions. This study investigates the drivers of correlations between ecosystem functions and highlights the importance of measuring pairs of functions repeatedly under different conditions to derive recommendations for grassland management.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qiufang Zhang, Wenkuan Qin, Jiguang Feng, Xiaojie Li, Zhenhua Zhang, Jin-Sheng He, Joshua P. Schimel, Biao Zhu
Summary: The paucity of investigations on carbon dynamics in soils with warming makes it difficult to evaluate the feedback of terrestrial carbon to climate change. In this study, the researchers examined microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) in an alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and found that CUE decreased with soil depth, primarily controlled by soil carbon availability. However, experimental warming had limited effects on microbial CUE and soil carbon availability.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhen-Huan Guan, Zuonan Cao, Xiao Gang Li, Thomas Scholten, Peter Kuehn, Lin Wang, Rui-Peng Yu, Jin-Sheng He
Summary: Plants can modulate their phosphorus acquisition strategies to adapt to varying soil phosphorus availability. When soil phosphorus is low, nitrogen addition increases the release of carboxylates from plant roots and leads to a higher percentage of colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), along with decreased root length and specific root length (SRL). When soil phosphorus is higher, nitrogen addition increases the plant's demand for phosphorus, accompanied by an increase in root diameter and phosphatase activity.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2024)
Article
Entomology
Tanja Graf, Franziska Scheibler, Pascal A. Niklaus, Giselher Grabenweger
Summary: The Japanese beetle is an invasive pest that causes significant damage to agriculture and horticulture. Currently, there is no efficient control measure available. Using entomopathogenic fungi to control adult beetles may be more promising than controlling larvae.
FRONTIERS IN INSECT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Nadine Keller, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jaboury Ghazoul, Tobias Marfil, Elia Godoong, Christopher D. Philipson
Summary: Active forest restoration can promote species diversity and the recovery of rare species, but its effects on seedling quantity and lianas are not significant.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Camille S. Delavaux, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner, Niamh M. Robmann, Thomas Lauber, Johan van den Hoogen, Sara Kuebbing, Jingjing Liang, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Meinrad Abegg, Yves C. Adou Yao, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio Vilchez Alvarado, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Christian Ammer, Clara Anton-Fernandez, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard, Timothy R. Baker, Radomir Balazy, Olaf Banki, Jorcely G. Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Jean-Francois Bastin, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Robin Chazdon, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Hyunkook Cho, Emil Cienciala, Connie Clark, David Clark, Gabriel D. Colletta, David A. Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jose J. Corral-Rivas, Philip M. Crim, Jonathan R. Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Andre L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Geraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Jiri Dolezal, Aurelie Dourdain, Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang, Brian J. Enquist, Teresa J. Eyre, Adande Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leandro V. Ferreira, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David J. Harris, Andrew Hector, Andreas Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Herault, John L. Herbohn, Martin Herold, Annika Hillers, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Thomas T. Ibanez, Ieda Amaral, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Kvist Johannsen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Ilbin Jung, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah K. Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy J. Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Kohl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon L. Lewis, Huicui Lu, Natalia V. Lukina, Brian S. Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew R. Marshall, Emanuel H. Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo-Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa S. Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, Maria Guadalupe Nava-Miranda, David Neill, Victor J. Neldner, Radovan V. Nevenic, Michael R. Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alain Paquette, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Elena I. Parfenova, Minjee Park, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Maria Teresa T. F. Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Irina Polo, Lourens Poorter, Axel D. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo-Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir G. Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Philippe Saner, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schongart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimir Seben, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Z. Shvidenko, Javier E. Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plinio Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonke, Alexandre F. Souza, Stanislaw Miscicki, Krzysztof J. Sterenczak, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Hans ter Steege, Raquel Thomas, Elena Tikhonova, Peter M. Umunay, Vladimir A. Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van der Plas, Tran Van Do, Michael E. van Nuland, Rodolfo M. Vasquez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua-Feng Wang, James V. Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Susan K. Wiser, Florian Wittmann, Hannsjoerg Woell, Verginia Wortel, Roderik Zagt, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Mo Zhou, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie C. Zo-Bi, Daniel S. Maynard
