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Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

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del Rio, Miren [CIFOR Forest Research Centre, Spain - University of Valladolid and INIA] Pretzsch, Hans [Chair for Forest Growth and Yield Science, Technische Universität München, Germany] Ruiz-Peinado, Ricardo [CIFOR Forest Research Centre, Madrid, Spain and University of Valladolid] Ampoorter, Evy [Forestand Nature lab, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium] Annighöfer, Peter [AbteilungWaldbau und Waldökologie der gemässigten Zonen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany] Ponette, Quentin [UCL] Bravo-Oviedo, Andrés [CIFOR Forest Research Centre, Madrid, Spain and University of Valladolid]

1.There is increasing evidence that species diversity enhances the temporal stability of community productivity in different ecosystems, although its effect at population and tree levels seems to be negative or neutral. Asynchrony in species responses to environmental conditions was found to be one of the main drivers of this stabilizing process. However, the effect of species mixing on the stability of productivity, and the relative importance of the associated mechanisms, remain poorly understood in forest communities. 2. We investigated the way mixing species influenced the temporal stability of productivity in Pinus sylvestris L. and Fagus sylvatica L. forests, and attempted to determine the main drivers among overyielding, asynchrony between species annual growth responses to nvironmental conditions, and temporal shifts in species interactions. We used a network of 93 experimental plots distributed across Europe to compare the temporal stability of basal area growth over a 15-year period (1999-2013) in mixed and monospecific forest stands at different organizational levels, namely community, population and individual tree levels. 3. Mixed stands showed a higher temporal tability of basal area growth than monospecific stands at the community level, but not at the population or individual tree levels. Temporal stability at the community level was related to asynchrony between species growth in mixtures, but not to overyielding nor to asynchrony between species growth in monospecific stands. Temporal shifts in species interactions were also related to asynchrony and to the mixing effect on temporal stability. 4. Synthesis. Our findings confirm that species mixing can stabilize productivity at the community level whereas there is a neutral or negative effect on stability at the population and individual tree levels. The contrasting findings regarding the relationships between temporal stability and asynchrony in species growth in mixed and monospecific stands suggest that the main driver in the stabilizing process may be the temporal niche complementarity between species rather than differences in species’ intrinsic responses to environmental conditions.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2017
Language Anglais
Journal information "Journal of Ecology" - Vol. 105, p. 1032-1043 (2017)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ((United Kingdom) Oxford)
issn 0022-0477
e-issn 1365-2745
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIE - Environmental Sciences
Keywords Temporal variability ; mixed species forests ; plant-plant interactions ; overyielding ; asynchrony ; niche complementarity ; organizational levels ; 3640
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Bibliographic reference del Rio, Miren ; Pretzsch, Hans ; Ruiz-Peinado, Ricardo ; Ampoorter, Evy ; Annighöfer, Peter ; et. al. Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe. In: Journal of Ecology, Vol. 105, p. 1032-1043 (2017)
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