Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests
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- 作者：Paloma Ruiz-Benito ; Sophia Ratcliffe ; Alistair S. Jump ; Lorena Gó ; mez-Aparicio ; Jaime Madrigal-Gonzá ; lez ; Christian Wirth ; Gerald Kä ; ndler ; Aleksi Lehtonen ; Jonas Dahlgren ; Jens Kattge and Miguel A. Zavala
- 刊名：Global Ecology and Biogeography
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：26
- 期：2
- 页码：128-141
- 全文大小：626K
- ISSN：1466-8238
文摘
Biodiversity loss and climate-driven ecosystem modification are leading to substantial changes in forest structure and function. However, the effects of diversity on demographic responses to the environment are poorly understood. We tested the diversity hypothesis (measured through functional diversity) and the mass ratio hypothesis (measured through functional identity) in relation to tree growth, tree mortality and sapling abundance. We sought to determine whether functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests.