Authors
Ryan A Chisholm, Helene C Muller‐Landau, Kassim Abdul Rahman, Daniel P Bebber, Yue Bin, Stephanie A Bohlman, Norman A Bourg, Joshua Brinks, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Nathalie Butt, Honglin Cao, Min Cao, Dairon Cárdenas, Li‐Wan Chang, Jyh‐Min Chiang, George Chuyong, Richard Condit, Handanakere S Dattaraja, Stuart Davies, Alvaro Duque, Christine Fletcher, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, Rhett D Harrison, Robert Howe, Chang‐Fu Hsieh, Stephen P Hubbell, Akira Itoh, David Kenfack, Somboon Kiratiprayoon, Andrew J Larson, Juyu Lian, Dunmei Lin, Haifeng Liu, James A Lutz, Keping Ma, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean McMahon, William McShea, Madhava Meegaskumbura, Salim Mohd. Razman, Michael D Morecroft, Christopher J Nytch, Alexandre Oliveira, Geoffrey G Parker, Sandeep Pulla, Ruwan Punchi‐Manage, Hugo Romero‐Saltos, Weiguo Sang, Jon Schurman, Sheng‐Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I‐Fang Sun, Hebbalalu S Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Duncan Thomas, Sean Thomas, Jill Thompson, Renato Valencia, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap, Wanhui Ye, Zuoqiang Yuan, Jess K Zimmerman
Publication date
2013/9
Journal
Journal of Ecology
Volume
101
Issue
5
Pages
1214-1224
Description
- The relationship between species richness and ecosystem function, as measured by productivity or biomass, is of long‐standing theoretical and practical interest in ecology. This is especially true for forests, which represent a majority of global biomass, productivity and biodiversity.
- Here, we conduct an analysis of relationships between tree species richness, biomass and productivity in 25 forest plots of area 8–50 ha from across the world. The data were collected using standardized protocols, obviating the need to correct for methodological differences that plague many studies on this topic.
- We found that at very small spatial grains (0.04 ha) species richness was generally positively related to productivity and biomass within plots, with a doubling of species richness corresponding to an average 48% increase in productivity and 53% increase in biomass. At larger spatial grains (0.25 ha, 1 ha), results were …
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