Authors
Helge Bruelheide, Karin Nadrowski, Thorsten Assmann, Jürgen Bauhus, Sabine Both, François Buscot, Xiao‐Yong Chen, Bingyang Ding, Walter Durka, Alexandra Erfmeier, Jessica LM Gutknecht, Dali Guo, Liang‐Dong Guo, Werner Härdtle, Jin‐Sheng He, Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Peter Kühn, Yu Liang, Xiaojuan Liu, Stefan Michalski, Pascal A Niklaus, Kequan Pei, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Thomas Scholten, Andreas Schuldt, Gunnar Seidler, Stefan Trogisch, Goddert von Oheimb, Erik Welk, Christian Wirth, Tesfaye Wubet, Xuefei Yang, Mingjian Yu, Shouren Zhang, Hongzhang Zhou, Markus Fischer, Keping Ma, Bernhard Schmid
Publication date
2014/1
Journal
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
74-89
Description
  1. Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments address ecosystem‐level consequences of species loss by comparing communities of high species richness with communities from which species have been gradually eliminated. BEF experiments originally started with microcosms in the laboratory and with grassland ecosystems. A new frontier in experimental BEF research is manipulating tree diversity in forest ecosystems, compelling researchers to think big and comprehensively.
  2. We present and discuss some of the major issues to be considered in the design of BEF experiments with trees and illustrate these with a new forest biodiversity experiment established in subtropical China (Xingangshan, Jiangxi Province) in 2009/2010. Using a pool of 40 tree species, extinction scenarios were simulated with tree richness levels of 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 species on a total of 566 plots of 25·8 × 25·8 m each.
  3. The goal …
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