| Title | Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions |
| Authors | Feng, Yuhao Schmid, Bernhard Loreau, Michel Forrester, David, I Fei, Songlin Zhu, Jianxiao Tang, Zhiyao Zhu, Jiangling Hong, Pubin Ji, Chengjun Shi, Yue Su, Haojie Xiong, Xinyu Xiao, Jian Wang, Shaopeng Fang, Jingyun |
| Affiliation | Peking Univ, Coll Urban & Environm Sci, Inst Ecol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China Peking Univ, Key Lab Earth Surface Proc, Minist Educ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Remote Sensing Labs, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland CNRS, Theoret & Expt Ecol Stn, F-09200 Moulis, France Swiss Fed Inst Forest Snow & Landscape Res WSL, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland CSIRO Land & Water, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Purdue Univ, Dept Forestry & Nat Resources, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA Lanzhou Univ, Coll Pastoral Agr Sci & Technol, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China Yunnan Univ, Coll Ecol & Environm Sci, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, Peoples R China |
| Keywords | MIXED-SPECIES PLANTATIONS PRODUCTIVITY BIODIVERSITY METAANALYSIS PUBLICATION RICHNESS GROWTH BIAS |
| Issue Date | 20-May-2022 |
| Publisher | SCIENCE |
| Abstract | Multispecies tree planting has long been applied in forestry and landscape restoration in the hope of providing better timber production and ecosystem services; however, a systematic assessment of its effectiveness is lacking. We compiled a global dataset of matched single-species and multispecies plantations to evaluate the impact of multispecies planting on stand growth. Average tree height, diameter at breast height, and aboveground biomass were 5.4, 6.8, and 25.5% higher, respectively, in multispecies stands compared with single-species stands. These positive effects were mainly the result of interspecific complementarity and were modulated by differences in leaf morphology and leaf life span, stand age, planting density, and temperature. Our results have implications for designing afforestation and reforestation strategies and bridging experimental studies of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships with real-world practices. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/646739 |
| ISSN | 0036-8075 |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.abm6363 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) |
| Appears in Collections: | 城市与环境学院 地表过程分析与模拟教育部重点实验室 |
