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Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests
Chianucci
,
Francesco
,
Napoleone
,
Francesca
,
Ricotta
,
Carlo
,
Ferrara
,
Carlotta
,
Fusaro
,
Lina
,
Balducci
,
Lorenzo
,
Trentanovi
,
Giovanni
,
Bradley
,
Owen
,
Kovács
,
Bence
,
Mina
,
Marco
,
Cerabolini
,
Bruno Enrico Leone
,
Vandekerkhove
,
Kris
,
de Smedt
,
Pallieter
,
Lens
,
Luc
,
Hertzog
,
Lionel R.
,
Verheyen
,
Kris
,
Hofmeister
,
Jeňýk
,
Hošek
,
Jan
,
Matula
,
Radim
,
Doerfler
,
Inken
,
Müller
,
Jörg C. C.
,
Weisser
,
Wolfgang W.
,
Helback
,
Jan
,
Schall
,
Peter
,
Fischer
,
Markus
,
Heilmann-Clausen
,
Jacob
,
Riis-Hansen
,
Rasmus
,
Goldberg
,
Irina
,
Aude
,
Erik
,
Kepfer-Rojas
,
Sebastian
,
Kappel Schmidt
,
Inger
,
Riis-Nielsen
,
Torben
,
Mårell
,
Anders
,
Dumas
,
Yann
,
Janssen
,
Philippe
,
Paillet
,
Yoan
,
Archaux
,
Frédéric
,
Xystrakis
,
Fotios
,
Tinya
,
Flóra
,
Ódor
,
Péter
,
Aszalós
,
Réka
,
Bölöni
,
János
,
Cutini
,
Andrea
,
Bagella
,
Simonetta
,
Sitzia
,
Tommaso
,
Brazaitis
,
Gediminas
,
Marozas
,
Vitas
,
Ujházyová
,
Mariana
,
Ujházy
,
Karol
,
Máliš
,
František
,
Nordén
,
Björn
,
Burrascano
,
Sabina
functional diversity
functional redundancy
forest understory
sustainable forest management
unmanaged forests
ecosystem resilience
silvicultural regime
Mostra abstract
Managing forests to sustain their diversity and functioning is a major challenge in a changing world. Despite the key role of understory vegetation in driving forest biodiversity, regeneration and functioning, few studies address the functional dimensions of understory vegetation response to silvicultural management. We assessed the influence of the silvicultural regimes on the functional diversity and redundancy of European forest understory. We gathered vascular plant abundance data from more than 2000 plots in European forests, each associated with one out of the five most widespread silvicultural regimes. We used generalized linear mixed models to assess the effect of different silvicultural regimes on understory functional diversity (Rao's quadratic entropy) and functional redundancy, while accounting for climate and soil conditions, and explored the reciprocal relationship between three diversity components (functional diversity, redundancy and dominance) across silvicultural regimes through a ternary diversity diagram. Intensive silvicultural regimes are associated with a decrease in functional diversity and an increase in functional redundancy, compared with unmanaged conditions. This means that although intensive management may buffer communities' functions against species or functional losses, it also limits the range of understory response to environmental changes. Policy implications. Different silvicultural regimes influence different facets of understory functional features. While unmanaged forests can be used as a reference to design silvicultural practices in compliance with biodiversity conservation targets, different silvicultural options should be balanced at landscape scale to sustain the multiple forest functions that human societies are increasingly demanding. © 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Applied Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.
The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates
Journé
,
Valentin
,
Bogdziewicz
,
Michał
,
Courbaud
,
Benoít
,
Kunstler
,
Georges
,
Qiu
,
Tong
,
Aravena Acuña
,
Marie Claire
,
Ascoli
,
Davide
,
Bergeron
,
Yves
,
Berveiller
,
Daniel
,
Boivin
,
Thomas
,
Bonal
,
Raúl
,
Caignard
,
Thomas
,
Cailleret
,
Maxime
,
Calama
,
Rafael A.
,
Camarero
,
Jesús Julio
,
Chang-Yang
,
Chia Hao
,
Chave
,
Jérôme
,
Chianucci
,
Francesco
,
Curt
,
Thomas
,
Cutini
,
Andrea
,
Das
,
Adrian J.
,
Daskalakou
,
Evangelia N.
,
Davi
,
Hendrik
,
Delpierre
,
Nicolas
,
Delzon
,
Sylvain
,
Dietze
,
Michael C.
,
Calderon
,
Sergio Donoso
,
Dormont
,
Laurent
,
Espelta
,
Josep Maria
,
Farfan-Rios
,
William R.
,
Fenner
,
Michael
,
Franklin
,
Jerry F.
,
Gehring
,
Catherine A.
,
Gilbert
,
Gregory S.
,
Gratzer
,
Georg
,
Greenberg
,
Cathryn H.
,
Guignabert
,
Arthur
,
Guo
,
Qinfeng
,
Hacket-Pain
,
Andrew J.
,
Hampe
,
Arndt
,
Han
,
Qingmin
,
Hanley
,
Mick E.
,
Hille Ris Lambers
,
Janneke
,
Holik
,
Jan
,
Hoshizaki
,
K.
,
Ibáñez
,
Inés
,
Johnstone
,
Jill F.
,
Knops
,
Johannes Michael Hubertus
,
Kobe
,
Richard K.
,
Kurokawa
,
Hiroko
,
Lageard
,
Jonathan G.A.
,
LaMontagne
,
Jalene M.
,
Ledwoń
,
Mateusz
,
Lefèvre
,
François
,
Leininger
,
Theodor D.
,
Limousin
,
Jean Marc
,
Lutz
,
James A.
,
Macias
,
Diana S.
,
Mårell
,
Anders
,
McIntire
,
Eliot J.B.
,
Moran
,
Emily V.
,
Motta
,
Renzo
,
Myers
,
Jonathan A.
,
Nagel
,
Thomas A.
,
Naoe
,
Shoji
,
Noguchi
,
Mahoko
,
Norghauer
,
Julian M.
,
Oguro
,
Michio
,
Ourcival
,
Jean Marc
,
Parmenter
,
Robert R.
,
Pearse
,
Ian S.
,
Pérez-Ramos
,
Ignacio M.
,
Piechnik
,
Łukasz
,
Podgórski
,
Tomasz
,
Poulsen
,
John R.
,
Redmond
,
Miranda D.
,
Reid
,
Chantal D.
,
Šamonil
,
Pavel
,
Scher
,
C. Lane
,
Schlesinger
,
William H.
,
Seget
,
Barbara
,
Sharma
,
Shubhi
,
Shibata
,
Mitsue
,
Silman
,
Miles R.
,
Steele
,
Michael A.
,
Stephenson
,
Nathan L.
,
Straub
,
Jacob N.
,
Sutton
,
Samantha
,
Swenson
,
Jennifer J.
,
Swift
,
Margaret
,
Thomas
,
Peter A.
,
Uríarte
,
María
,
Vacchiano
,
Giorgio
,
Whipple
,
Amy Vaughn
,
Whitham
,
Thomas G.
,
Wright
,
Stuart Joseph
,
Zhu
,
Kai
,
Zimmerman
,
Jess K.
,
Żywiec
,
Magdalena
,
Clark
,
James S.
Mostra abstract
The fundamental trade-off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to begin reproduction at a larger size. Due to the prolonged time required to reach maturity, estimates of tree maturation size remain very rare and we lack a global view on the generality and the shape of this trade-off. Using seed production from five continents, we estimate tree maturation sizes for 486 tree species spanning tropical to boreal climates. Results show that a species' maturation size increases with maximum size, but in a non-proportional way: the largest species begin reproduction at smaller sizes than would be expected if maturation were simply proportional to maximum size. Furthermore, the decrease in relative maturation size is steepest in cold climates. These findings on maturation size drivers are key to accurately represent forests' responses to disturbance and climate change. © 2024 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.