Driving mechanisms of productivity stability vary with selective harvesting intensities in a mixed broad-leaved Korean pine forest
Key message
We found that the stabilizing mechanisms for forest productivity varied across harvesting intensities in a mixed broad-leaved Korean pine forest. Effects of overyielding at high species richness and species asynchrony occurred only in unharvested and lightly harvested plots, whereas asymmetries between individuals of different size contributed significantly to stabilizing productivity when harvestings became intensive.
Keywords
Aboveground biomass productivity; Asymmetric growth partitioning; Overyielding; Species asynchrony; Temporal stability; Natural forest
Publication
Geng, Y., Xiang, K., Zhang, C. et al. Driving mechanisms of productivity stability vary with selective harvesting intensities in a mixed broad-leaved Korean pine forest. Annals of Forest Science 80, 31 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-023-01199-3
Data and/or code availability
Datasets used in the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Handling Editor
Thomas Cordonnier
