Authors
Jingjing Liang, Thomas W Crowther, Nicolas Picard, Susan Wiser, Mo Zhou, Giorgio Alberti, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, A David McGuire, Fabio Bozzato, Hans Pretzsch, Sergio De-Miguel, Alain Paquette, Bruno Hérault, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christopher B Barrett, Henry B Glick, Geerten M Hengeveld, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Sebastian Pfautsch, Helder Viana, Alexander C Vibrans, Christian Ammer, Peter Schall, David Verbyla, Nadja Tchebakova, Markus Fischer, James V Watson, Han YH Chen, Xiangdong Lei, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Huicui Lu, Damiano Gianelle, Elena I Parfenova, Christian Salas, Eungul Lee, Boknam Lee, Hyun Seok Kim, Helge Bruelheide, David A Coomes, Daniel Piotto, Terry Sunderland, Bernhard Schmid, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Bonaventure Sonké, Rebecca Tavani, Jun Zhu, Susanne Brandl, Jordi Vayreda, Fumiaki Kitahara, Eric B Searle, Victor J Neldner, Michael R Ngugi, Christopher Baraloto, Lorenzo Frizzera, Radomir Bałazy, Jacek Oleksyn, Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Olivier Bouriaud, Filippo Bussotti, Leena Finér, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Tommaso Jucker, Fernando Valladares, Andrzej M Jagodzinski, Pablo L Peri, Christelle Gonmadje, William Marthy, Timothy O’Brien, Emanuel H Martin, Andrew R Marshall, Francesco Rovero, Robert Bitariho, Pascal A Niklaus, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Nurdin Chamuya, Renato Valencia, Frédéric Mortier, Verginia Wortel, Nestor L Engone-Obiang, Leandro V Ferreira, David E Odeke, Rodolfo M Vasquez, Simon L Lewis, Peter B Reich
Publication date
2016/10/14
Journal
Science
Volume
354
Issue
6309
Pages
aaf8957
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
INTRODUCTION
The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR; the effect of biodiversity on ecosystem productivity) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on the functioning of natural ecosystems. The BPR has been a prominent research topic within ecology in recent decades, but it is only recently that we have begun to develop a global perspective.
RATIONALE
Forests are the most important global repositories of terrestrial biodiversity, but deforestation, forest degradation, climate change, and other factors are threatening approximately one half of tree species worldwide. Although there have been substantial efforts to strengthen the preservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity throughout the globe, the consequences of this diversity loss pose a major uncertainty for ongoing international forest management and conservation efforts. The forest BPR represents a …
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