A global meta-analysis on the drivers of salt marsh planting success and implications for ecosystem services DOI Creative Commons
Zezheng Liu, Sergio Fagherazzi, Qiang He

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Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: April 29, 2024

Planting has been widely adopted to battle the loss of salt marshes and establish living shorelines. However, drivers success in marsh planting their ecological effects are poorly understood at global scale. Here, we assemble a database, encompassing 22,074 observations reported 210 studies, examine impacts planting. We show that, on average, 53% plantings survived globally, plant survival growth can be enhanced by careful design sites, species selection, novel planted technologies. enhances shoreline protection, primary productivity, soil carbon storage, biodiversity conservation fishery production (effect sizes = 0.61, 1.55, 0.21, 0.10 1.01, respectively), compared with degraded wetlands. ecosystem services marshes, except for have not yet fully recovered natural wetlands size -0.25, 95% CI -0.29, -0.22). Fortunately, levels most functions related climate change mitigation increase plantation age when wetlands, achieve equivalence after 5-25 years. Overall, our results suggest that could used as strategy enhance sequestration.

Language: Английский

Effects of afforestation on soil microbial diversity and enzyme activity: A meta-analysis DOI
Hanyue Huang, Di Tian, Luhong Zhou

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Geoderma, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 423, P. 115961 - 115961

Published: June 1, 2022

Language: Английский

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Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies DOI Creative Commons
Shan Luo, Richard P. Phillips, Insu Jo

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Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: March 13, 2023

Abstract Decades of theory and empirical studies have demonstrated links between biodiversity ecosystem functioning, yet the putative processes that underlie these patterns remain elusive. This is especially true for forest ecosystems, where functional traits plant species are challenging to quantify. We analyzed 74,563 inventory plots span 35 ecoregions in contiguous USA found ~77% mixed mycorrhizal were more productive than either arbuscular or ectomycorrhizal fungal-associated tree dominant. Moreover, positive effects mixing strategies on productivity pronounced at low high richness. conclude richness different may allow partition nutrient uptake thus can increase community productivity, whereas other dimensions diversity enhance resource partitioning productivity. Our findings highlight importance strategies, addition taxonomic general, maintaining functioning forests.

Language: Английский

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Ecosystem‐dependent responses of soil carbon storage to phosphorus enrichment DOI
Jiguang Feng, Yanjun Song, Biao Zhu

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New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 238(6), P. 2363 - 2374

Published: March 24, 2023

Phosphorus deposition can stimulate both plant carbon inputs and microbial outputs. However, how P enrichment affects soil organic (SOC) storage the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis of 642 SOC observations from 213 field addition experiments world-wide explored regulations inputs, outputs, characteristics, environmental experimental factors on responses. found that, globally, stimulated by 4.0% (95% CI: 2.0-6.0%), but stimulation only occurred in forest cropland rather than grassland. Across sites, response correlated with that aboveground belowground biomass, suggesting change was more important regulating changes due to addition. Among multiple factors, N fixation status mean annual temperature were best predictors for responses addition, being higher ecosystems dominated symbiotic nitrogen fixers high-temperature regions like tropical forests. Our findings highlight differential ecosystem-dependent contribute accurate predictions dynamics P-enriched world.

Language: Английский

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Distinguishing forest types in restored tropical landscapes with UAV-borne LIDAR DOI Creative Commons

Janneke Scheeres,

Johan de Jong, Benjamin Brede

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Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 290, P. 113533 - 113533

Published: March 15, 2023

Forest landscape restoration is a global priority to mitigate negative effects of climate change, conserve biodiversity, and ensure future sustainability forests, with international pledges concentrated in tropical forest regions. To hold efforts accountable monitor their outcomes, traditional strategies for monitoring tree cover increase by field surveys are falling short, because they labor-intensive costly. Meanwhile remote sensing approaches have not been able distinguish different types that result from utilizing (conservation versus production focus). Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAV) light detection ranging (LiDAR) sensors can observe forests` vertical horizontal structural variation, which has the potential types. In this study, we explored UAV-borne LiDAR landscapes under southeastern Brazil using supervised classification method. The study area encompassed 150 plots six divided two groups: conservation (remnant natural regrowth, active plantings) (monoculture, mixed, abandoned plantations) forests. data was used extract several Canopy Height Model (CHM), voxel, point cloud statistic based metrics at high resolution analysis. Using random model could successfully classify forests (90% accuracy). Classification entire set less accurate (62%) confusion matrix showed divide between Understory Leaf Area Index (LAI) variation vegetation density upper half canopy were most important metrics. particular, LAI understory may help advance ecological understanding restoration. difference success underlines difficulty distinguishing individual very similar management, regeneration dynamics, structure. context, ability identify complex structures plot scale groups widely distributed across restored medium accuracy. Future research explore fusion optical sensors, include successional stages analyses further characterize contributions

Language: Английский

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Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest DOI Creative Commons
Andreas Schuldt, Xiaojuan Liu, François Buscot

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Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 29(18), P. 5321 - 5333

Published: March 27, 2023

Carbon-focused climate mitigation strategies are becoming increasingly important in forests. However, with ongoing biodiversity declines we require better knowledge of how much such account for biodiversity. We particularly lack information across multiple trophic levels and on established forests, where the interplay between carbon stocks, stand age, tree diversity might influence carbon-biodiversity relationships. Using a large dataset (>4600 heterotrophic species 23 taxonomic groups) from secondary, subtropical tested multitrophic within groups relate to aboveground, belowground, total stocks at different richness age. Our study revealed that aboveground carbon, key component climate-based management, was largely unrelated diversity. By contrast, stocks-that is, including belowground carbon-emerged as significant predictor Relationships were nonlinear strongest lower levels, but nonsignificant higher level Tree age moderated these relationships, suggesting long-term regeneration forests may be effective reconciling targets. findings highlight benefits climate-oriented management need evaluated carefully, only maximizing fail conservation requirements.

Language: Английский

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Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures—a meta-analysis DOI Creative Commons
Emily Warner, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Owen T. Lewis

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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: Nov. 9, 2023

Although decades of research suggest that higher species richness improves ecosystem functioning and stability, planted forests are predominantly monocultures. To determine whether diversification plantations would enhance aboveground carbon storage, we systematically reviewed over 11,360 publications, acquired data from a global network tree diversity experiments. We compiled maximum dataset 79 monoculture to mixed comparisons 21 sites with all variables needed for meta-analysis. assessed stocks in mixed-species vs. (a) the average monocultures, (b) best monoculture, (c) commercial examined potential mechanisms driving differences between mixtures On average, found were 70% than 77% 25% performing although latter was not statistically significant. Overyielding highest four-species (richness range 2–6 species), but otherwise none (nitrogen-fixer present absent; native non-native/mixed origin; experiment forestry plantation) consistently explained variation effects. Our results, young stands, thus could be very promising solution increasing sequestration represent call action more increase confidence these results elucidate methods overcome any operational challenges costs associated diversification.

Language: Английский

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Big-sized trees and higher species diversity improve water holding capacities of forests in northeast China DOI

Yanbo Yang,

Lixin Jing,

Qi Li

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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 880, P. 163263 - 163263

Published: April 6, 2023

Language: Английский

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The impact of ecological restoration on ecosystem services change modulated by drought and rising CO2 DOI Creative Commons
Binbin Huang, Fei Lu, Xiaoke Wang

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Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 29(18), P. 5304 - 5320

Published: June 27, 2023

Ecological restoration projects (ERPs) are an indispensable component of natural climate solutions and have proven to be very important for reversing environmental degradation in vulnerable regions enhancing ecosystem services. However, the level enhancement would inevitably influenced by global drought rising CO2 , which remain less investigated. In this study, we took Beijing-Tianjin sand source region (which has experienced long-term ERPs), China, as example combined process-based Biome-BGCMuSo model set multiple scenarios address issue. We found ERP-induced carbon sequestration (CS), water retention (WR), soil (SR), sandstorm prevention (SP) increased 22.21%, 2.87%, 2.35%, 28.77%, respectively. Moreover, services promotion from afforestation was greater than that grassland planting. Approximately 91.41%, 98.13%, 64.51% CS, SR, SP were contributed afforestation. also caused WR decline. Although amplified ERPs, it almost totally offset drought. The contribution ERPs WR, reduced 5.74%, 32.62%, 11.74%, 14.86%, respectively, under . Our results confirmed importance strengthening provision. Furthermore, provide a quantitative way understand influence rate on service dynamics. addition, considerable negative change impact implied strategies should optimized improve resilience better combat impacts.

Language: Английский

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Interspecific plant-plant interactions increase the soil microbial network stability, shift keystone microbial taxa, and enhance their functions in mixed stands DOI
Wanting Li, Qinghua Liu,

Lulu Xie

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Forest Ecology and Management, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 533, P. 120851 - 120851

Published: Feb. 15, 2023

Language: Английский

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Towards mechanistic integration of the causes and consequences of biodiversity DOI
Shaopeng Wang, Pubin Hong, Peter B. Adler

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 39(7), P. 689 - 700

Published: March 19, 2024

Language: Английский

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