Assessing biotic and abiotic effects on forest productivity in three temperate forests.

ABSTRACT: It is well understood that biotic and abiotic variables influence forest productivity. However, in regard to temperate forests, the relative contributions of the aforementioned drivers to biomass demographic processes (i.e., the growth rates of the survivors and recruits) have not received a great deal of attention. Thus, this study focused on the identification of the relative influencing effects of biotic and abiotic variables in the demographic biomass processes of temperate forests.This study was conducted in the Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve, in northeastern China. Based on the observational data collected from three 5.2-hectare forest plots, the annual above-ground biomass (AGB) increment (productivity) of the surviving trees, recruits, and the total tree community (survivors + re

SUBMITTER: Yue Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7391343 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature