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Title: | Tree Species Traits but Not Diversity Mitigate Stem Breakage in a Subtropical Forest following a Rare and Extreme Ice Storm | Contributor(s): | Nadrowski, Karin (author); Pietsch, Katherina (author); Baruffol, Martin (author); Both, Sabine (author) ; Gutknecht, Jessica (author); Bruelheide, Helge (author); Heklau, Heike (author); Kahl, Anya (author); Kahl, Tiemo (author); Niklaus, Pascal (author); Kröber, Wenzel (author); Liu, Xiaojuan (author); Mi, Xiangcheng (author); Michalski, Stefan (author); Von Oheimb, Goddert (author); Purschke, Oliver (author); Schmid, Bernhard (author); Fang, Teng (author); Welk, Erik (author); Wirth, Christian (author) | Publication Date: | 2014-05-30 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0096022 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30610 | Abstract: | Future climates are likely to include extreme events, which in turn have great impacts on ecological systems. In this study, we investigated possible effects that could mitigate stem breakage caused by a rare and extreme ice storm in a Chinese subtropical forest across a gradient of forest diversity. We used Bayesian modeling to correct stem breakage for tree size and variance components analysis to quantify the influence of taxon, leaf and wood functional traits, and stand level properties on the probability of stem breakage. We show that the taxon explained four times more variance in individual stem breakage than did stand level properties; trees with higher specific leaf area (SLA) were less susceptible to breakage. However, a large part of the variation at the taxon scale remained unexplained, implying that unmeasured or undefined traits could be used to predict damage caused by ice storms. When aggregated at the plot level, functional diversity and wood density increased after the ice storm. We suggest that for the adaption of forest management to climate change, much can still be learned from looking at functional traits at the taxon level. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | PLoS One, 9(5), p. 1-7 | Publisher: | Public Library of Science | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1932-6203 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 060202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology) 050102 Ecosystem Function 060208 Terrestrial Ecology |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 310302 Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology) 410203 Ecosystem function 310308 Terrestrial ecology |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960806 Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 180606 Terrestrial biodiversity | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Environmental and Rural Science |
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