Verheyen, Kris De Frenne, Pieter Baeten, Lander Waller, Donald M Hédl, Radim Perring, Michael P Blondeel, Haben Brunet, Jörg Chudomelova, Markéeta Decocq, Guillaume
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Bioscience
More and more ecologists have started to resurvey communities sampled in earlier decades to determine long-term shifts in community composition and infer the likely drivers of the ecological changes observed. However, to assess the relative importance of, and interactions among, multiple drivers joint analyses of resurvey data from many regions spa...
Seddon, Nathalie Mace, Georgina Naeem, Shahid Tobias, Joseph Pigot, Alex Cavanagh, Rachel MOUILLOT, David Vause, James Walpole, Matt
Meeting the ever-increasing needs of the Earth's human population without excessively reducing biological diversity is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, suggesting that newapproaches to biodiversity conservation are required. One idea rapidly gaining momentum-as well as opposition-is to incorporate the values of biodiversity into deci...
Van der Plas, Fons Manning, Peter Allan, Eric Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael Verheyen, Kris Wirth, Christian Zavala, Miguel Angel Hector, Andy Ampoorter, Evy Baeten, Lander
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There is considerable evidence that biodiversity promotes multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality), thus ensuring the delivery of ecosystem services important for human well-being. However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are poorly understood, especially in natural ecosystems. We develop a novel approach to partition biodivers...
Pigot, AL Tobias, JA Jetz, W
Carrari, Elisa Ampoorter, Evy Verheyen, Kris Coppi, Andrea Selvi, Federico
Aim: Production of wood charcoal is an ancient form of anthropogenic forest use that existed for millennia in Mediterranean countries and only vanished in the last century. As a result, thousands of abandoned charcoal kiln platforms still occur in present-day woodlands. Because of peculiar light and soil properties, the understorey vegetation at th...
Van de Peer, Thomas Verheyen, Kris Baeten, Lander Ponette, Quentin Muys, Bart
Biodiversity can insure ecosystems against declines in their functioning by increasing the mean level of ecosystem processes and decreasing the spatial or temporal variance of these processes. On this basis, mixing tree species is expected to be an effective management strategy to reduce the risk of planting failure in young plantations. We examine...
Tardif, Antoine Shipley, Bill
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Slik, J W Ferry Arroyo-Rodríguez, Víctor Aiba, Shin-Ichiro Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia Alves, Luciana F Ashton, Peter Balvanera, Patricia Bastian, Meredith L Bellingham, Peter J van den Berg, Eduardo
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The high species richness of tropical forests has long been recognized, yet there remains substantial uncertainty regarding the actual number of tropical tree species. Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting of 657,630 trees belonging to 11,371 species, we use a fitted value of Fisher's alpha and an approx...
Koenen, Erik JM Clarkson, James J Pennington, Terence D Chatrou, Lars
Tropical rainforest hyperdiversity is often suggested to have evolved over a long time-span (the museum' model), but there is also evidence for recent rainforest radiations. The mahoganies (Meliaceae) are a prominent plant group in lowland tropical rainforests world-wide but also occur in all other tropical ecosystems. We investigated whether rainf...
Ampoorter, Evy Baeten, Lander Vanhellemont, Margot Bruelheide, Helge Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael Baasch, Annett Erfmeier, Alexandra Hock, Maria Verheyen, Kris
Questions: The forest herb layer provides a multitude of ecosystem services as a result of its species-rich character. Herb layer diversity and biomass are both influenced by tree layer composition and species richness through species-specific influences on environmental conditions. The results of observational studies on richness-biomass relations...
