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#TaxonomicDiversity predicts aboveground biomass mainly through #FunctionalDominance across subtropical #ForestSuccession.

#Diversity_biomassRelationship | #FunctionalDversity | #BiomassRatioHypothesis

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf038

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Effects of #SoilPathogenicFungi mediated by litter on the plant #SeedGermination across successional stages of subalpine forests

#ForestSuccession | #WesternSichuanSubalpine | #LitterDecomposition

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf211

Chun-Feng Gu et al. investigated how the effect of #TaxonomicDiversity on aboveground biomass (AGB) is related to shifts in the roles of #FunctionalDiversity and #FunctionalDominance of five functional traits.

#Diversity_biomassRelationship | #ForestSuccession | #BiomassRatioHypothesis

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf038

Researchers dumped tons of coffee waste into a forest. This is what it looks like now.

30 dump truck loads and two years later, the forest looks totally different.

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