Tree aboveground carbon storage correlates with environmental gradients and functional diversity in a tropical forest.

ABSTRACT: Tropical forests play a disproportionately important role in the global carbon (C) cycle, but it remains unclear how local environments and functional diversity regulate tree aboveground C storage. We examined how three components (environments, functional dominance and diversity) affected C storage in Dinghushan 20-ha plot in China. There was large fine-scale variation in C storage. The three components significantly contributed to regulate C storage, but dominance and diversity of traits were associated with C storage in different directions. Structural equation models (SEMs) of dominance and diversity explained 34% and 32% of variation in C storage. Environments explained 26-44% of variation in dominance and diversity. Similar proportions of variation in C storage were explained by domi

SUBMITTER: Shen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4899748 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature