Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences

The need for a canopy perspective to understand the importance of phenotypic plasticity for promoting species coexistence and light-use complementarity in forest ecosystems

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Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Beyond shading: Litter production by neighbors contributes to overyielding in tropical trees

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Understory light predictions in mixed conifer mountain forests: Role of aspect-induced variation in crown geometry and openness

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Tree and stand light use efficiencies over a full rotation of single- and mixed-species Eucalyptus grandis and Acacia mangium plantations

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

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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

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Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

Norway maple displays greater seasonal growth and phenotypic plasticity to light than native sugar maple

(2012) A. Paquette et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Strong seasonal variations in net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a tropical pasture and afforestation in Panama

(2011) Sebastian Wolf et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Belowground facilitation and competition in young tree species mixtures

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Tree diversity enhances tree transpiration in a Panamanian forest plantation

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Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale   NATURE

Light interception efficiency explained by two simple variables: a test using a diversity of small- to medium-sized woody plants

(2011) R. A. Duursma et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

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Seasonal dynamics of tree sap flux and water use in nine species in Panamanian forest plantations

(2010) Norbert Kunert et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: Carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation

(2010) Catherine Potvin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

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Can we predict carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems from tree diversity? Comparing species and functional diversity in a plantation and a natural forest

(2010) Maria C. Ruiz-Jaen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Legume species differ in the responses of their functional traits to plant diversity

(2010) Christiane Roscher et al.   OECOLOGIA

Individual variability in tree allometry determines light resource allocation in forest ecosystems: a hierarchical Bayesian approach

(2010) Ghislain Vieilledent et al.   OECOLOGIA

Optimal photosynthetic use of light by tropical tree crowns achieved by adjustment of individual leaf angles and nitrogen content

(2009) Juan M. Posada et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The role of plantations in managing the world's forests in the Anthropocene

(2009) Alain Paquette et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Linking biodiversity and ecosystems: towards a unifying ecological theory

(2009) M. Loreau   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emerging horizons in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research

(2009) Julia Reiss et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Functional role of forest diversity: Pros and cons of synthetic stands and across-site comparisons in established forests

(2008) Christoph Leuschner et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biodiversity enhances individual performance but does not affect survivorship in tropical trees

(2008) Catherine Potvin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Transgressive overyielding in mixed compared with pure stands of Norway spruce and European beech in Central Europe: evidence on stand level and explanation on individual tree level

(2008) Hans Pretzsch et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A tree of many faces: Why are there different crown types in Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.)?

(2008) Thomas Geburek et al.   FLORA

Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding

(2008) Bernhard Schmid et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Light partitioning in experimental grass communities

(2008) Eva Vojtech et al.   OIKOS

Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands

(2008) Sönke Lorentzen et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics

(2008) D. Purves et al.   SCIENCE