Limited tree richness effects on herb layer composition, richness and productivity in experimental forest stands

Multiple drivers of plant diversity in forest ecosystems

(2014) Yu Zhang et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

(2014) Meghan L. Avolio et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Establishment success in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in subtropical China (BEF-China)

(2013) Xuefei Yang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

(2013) Lander Baeten et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

(2013) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Mechanisms promoting tree species co-existence: Experimental evidence with saplings of subtropical forest ecosystems of China

(2012) Anne C. Lang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

Harmonizing, annotating and sharing data in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

(2012) Karin Nadrowski et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Lack of tree layer control on herb layer characteristics in a subtropical forest, China

(2011) Sabine Both et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effect of forest canopy composition on soil nutrients and dynamics of the understorey: mixed canopies serve neither vascular nor bryophyte strata

(2011) Xavier Cavard et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Tree diversity and environmental context predict herb species richness and cover in Germany's largest connected deciduous forest

(2011) Elke A. Vockenhuber et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

(2010) Helge Bruelheide et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

The influence of canopy patch mosaics on understory plant community composition in boreal mixedwood forest

(2010) Virginia Chávez et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Small-scale variation of vegetation in a mixed forest understorey is partly controlled by the effect of overstory composition on litter accumulation

(2010) J. Rodríguez-Calcerrada et al.   Journal of Forest Research

Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service?

(2010) Karin Nadrowski et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Influence of several tree traits on rainfall partitioning in temperate and boreal forests: a review

(2009) Stéphane Barbier et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Belowground nitrogen partitioning in experimental grassland plant communities of varying species richness

(2009) Stefanie von Felten et al.   ECOLOGY

A greater range of shade-tolerance niches in nutrient-rich forests: an explanation for positive richness-productivity relationships?

(2009) David A. Coomes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Herb-layer diversity in deciduous forests: Raised by tree richness or beaten by beech?

(2008) Andreas Mölder et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2008) D. A. Fornara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation

(2008) Chrystal Healy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Influence of tree species on understory vegetation diversity and mechanisms involved—A critical review for temperate and boreal forests

(2007) Stéphane Barbier et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT