Temporal stability of aboveground biomass is governed by species asynchrony in temperate forests.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the effects of plant species diversity and trait composition on aboveground biomass is a central focus of ecology and has important implications for biodiversity conservation. However, the simultaneous direct and indirect effects of soil nutrients, species asynchrony, functional trait diversity, and trait composition for explaining the community temporal stability of aboveground biomass remain underrepresented in natural forests. Here, we hypothesized that species asynchrony relative to soil nutrients, functional trait diversity, and trait composition plays a central role in stabilizing the community temporal stability of natural forests. We tested this hypothesis using a structural equation model based on 10-year continuous monitoring data (i.e., three-time repeated forest i

SUBMITTER: Yuan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718286 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature