{"id":2920,"date":"2018-07-03T17:36:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/afs\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2018-07-03T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:36:36","slug":"aboveground-carbon-storage-is-driven-by-functional-trait-composition-and-stand-structural-attributes-rather-than-biodiversity-in-temperate-mixed-forests-recovering-from-disturbances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2018\/07\/03\/aboveground-carbon-storage-is-driven-by-functional-trait-composition-and-stand-structural-attributes-rather-than-biodiversity-in-temperate-mixed-forests-recovering-from-disturbances\/","title":{"rendered":"Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p>Functional trait composition and stand structural complexity rather than biodiversity substantially enhance aboveground carbon storage in temperate mixed forests, while accounting for the effects of disturbance intensity. This study provides a strong support to the mass ratio effect in addition to the niche differentiation and facilitation effects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong> The underlying mechanisms for the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem function remain hotly debated for the last four decades.<br \/>\n<strong>Aims <\/strong>We tested how do biodiversity, functional trait composition, stand structural attributes, and topographic variables explain aboveground C storage under different disturbance regimes.<br \/>\n<strong>Methods<\/strong> We used linear mixed effects and structural equation models to simultaneously evaluate the effects of biodiversity, stand structure attributes, functional trait composition, and topographic variables on aboveground C storage while considering for the effects of disturbance intensity. We used biophysical data from 260 plots within 11 permanent temperate mixed forests in Northeastern China.<br \/>\n<strong>Results<\/strong> Aboveground C storage was driven by stand basal area, individual tree size inequality, community-weighted mean of maximum height and wood density, and diversity (functional evenness and mean nearest taxon distance). The structural equation model showed that aboveground C storage was positively affected by individual tree size inequality and trait composition (i.e., CWM of maximum height), after accounting for the strongest negative direct and indirect effects of disturbance intensity.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion<\/strong> Conserving functional identity of species and maintaining complex stand structure would be the alternative choices for higher aboveground C storage in temperate mixed forests.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords<br \/>\nBiodiversity, Disturbance, Diversity effect, Functional composition, Mass ratio effect, Niche complementarity effect, Stand structure<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13595-018-0745-3'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p>Publication<br \/>\nYuan, Z., Wang, S., Ali, A. et al. Annals of Forest Science (2018) 75: 67.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13595-018-0745-3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13595-018-0745-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the read-only version of the full text:<a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/2oLf\"> https:\/\/rdcu.be\/2oLf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Functional trait composition and stand structural complexity rather than biodiversity substantially enhance aboveground carbon storage in temperate mixed forests, while accounting for the effects of disturbance intensity. This study provides a strong support to the mass ratio effect in addition to the niche differentiation and facilitation effects. Context The underlying mechanisms for the relationships between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}