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Larger forest patches have greater per-area productivity
TLDR:
- Larger forest patches are significantly more productive than small, isolated ones
- A hectare in a large forest can be ~38% more productive
- Fragmentation may have reduced U.S. forest productivity by ~14%
- Climate strategies must consider fragmentation, not just forest area
Using remote sensing data, spatial modelling and counterfactual scenarios, this analysis reveals a positive relationship between forest patch size and productivity. This implies that preserving many small forest patches may not offset the carbon losses from larger contiguous forests.
Five years of satellite monitoring of forests in Germany found that trees that had been attacked by the gypsy moth delayed leaf production the following year, starving the emerging moth larvae and halving the subsequent leaf damage.
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03071-9
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A study of 2.7 million trees in 17 forest plots located from 5 deg. S to 47 deg. N found that tropical forests had higher neighborhood diversity--trees had more different kinds of neighbors--in tropical plots. Three explanations for this phenomenon are proposed.
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-tropical-trees-neighborly-equator.html
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Tropical trees are better neighbors than trees in temperate forests, according to a study published in the journal Nature by researchers from 29 different institutions including the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the ForestGEO global network of forest monitoring sites.
As branches age, stems thicken, needles spread out, less self-shading.
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