{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120396", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:16:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-07-04", "title": "Tree species identity is the predominant modulator of the effects of soil fauna on leaf litter decomposition", "description": "Open AccessLa faune du sol est l'un des principaux moteurs de la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle locale et mondiale, mais le r\u00f4le des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres dans la m\u00e9diation des effets de la faune du sol sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re reste insaisissable. Nous avons men\u00e9 une exp\u00e9rience sur le terrain en utilisant des sacs de liti\u00e8re avec trois tailles de maille diff\u00e9rentes qui ont permis l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la microfaune (0,1 mm), \u00e0 la micro et m\u00e9sofaune (2 mm) et \u00e0 la faune totale du sol (5 mm) pour \u00e9valuer la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re foliaire de deux esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 des champignons mycorhiziens arbusculaires (MA) et de trois esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 des champignons ectomycorhiziens (ECM) dans six sites de jardins communs danois. Nous avons \u00e9galement \u00e9valu\u00e9 comment les diff\u00e9rences dans la qualit\u00e9 initiale de la liti\u00e8re, les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol et la composition de la communaut\u00e9 microbienne parmi les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres peuvent affecter la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re ainsi que les effets de la faune du sol sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re. Les r\u00e9sultats ont montr\u00e9 que (1) la perte de masse de la liti\u00e8re variait consid\u00e9rablement selon la taille des mailles et les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, avec des taux de d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re (k) allant de 0,273 \u00e0 3,482\u00a0; (2) l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la m\u00e9sofaune augmentait significativement la liti\u00e8re k de 0,658 pour la MA et de 0,396 pour les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres ECM sans acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la faune du sol, respectivement de 255 et 92%, tandis que l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la fois \u00e0 la m\u00e9so- et \u00e0 la macrofaune augmentait k de 265 et 108% pour les arbres AM et ECM, respectivement\u00a0; (3) l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, l'association mycorhizienne, la qualit\u00e9 initiale de la liti\u00e8re, les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol, la composition des communaut\u00e9s microbiennes et la biomasse de la faune du sol ambiant \u00e9taient tous des facteurs influen\u00e7ant significativement la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re, mais l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres \u00e9tait le facteur dominant ind\u00e9pendamment de la taille des mailles des sacs de liti\u00e8re\u00a0; et (4) les effets de la m\u00e9sofaune sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re \u00e9taient principalement contr\u00f4l\u00e9s par l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, la concentration initiale en Mg de la liti\u00e8re et le rapport lignine\u00a0:N, tandis que le petit impact suppl\u00e9mentaire de l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la macrofaune n'\u00e9tait pas bien expliqu\u00e9 par aucun des facteurs \u00e9valu\u00e9s. Dans l'ensemble, nos r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres affectent la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re via une stimulation diff\u00e9rente du fonctionnement de la faune du sol, et que les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la MA et \u00e0 la mec diff\u00e8rent dans le degr\u00e9 auquel la faune du sol stimule la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re. Cependant, le mod\u00e8le n'\u00e9tait pas enti\u00e8rement coh\u00e9rent car les taux de d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re pour la chaux associ\u00e9e \u00e0 la mec \u00e9taient stimul\u00e9s dans la m\u00eame mesure que les taux pour les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la MA, le fr\u00eane et l'\u00e9rable. Dans l'ensemble, nos r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que les communaut\u00e9s de m\u00e9so- et de macrofaune du sol peuvent am\u00e9liorer les effets des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re ainsi que l'incorporation de la liti\u00e8re C dans le sol min\u00e9ral.", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Litter quality", "Microfauna", "Plant Science", "Soil mesofauna", "01 natural sciences", "Plant litter", "Soil fauna", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Soil biology", "Microbial community", "Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions", "Litter", "Soil water", "Wood Decomposition", "Saproxylic Insect Ecology and Forest Management", "Plant Interactions", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Ecology", "Soil property", "Life Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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It is still poorly understood how fast interlinked ecosystem processes respond to altered environmental conditions, if these responses occur gradually or suddenly when thresholds are exceeded, and if the patterns of the responses will reach a stable state. We conducted an irrigation experiment in the Pfynwald, Switzerland from 2003\uffe2\uff80\uff932018. A naturally dry Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest was irrigated with amounts that doubled natural precipitation, thus releasing the forest stand from water limitation. The aim of this study was to provide a quantitative understanding on how different traits and functions of individual trees and the whole ecosystem responded to increased water availability, and how the patterns and magnitudes of these responses developed over time. We found that the response magnitude, the temporal trajectory of responses, and the length of initial lag period prior to significant response largely varied across traits. We detected rapid and stronger responses from aboveground tree traits (e.g., tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90ring width, needle length, and crown transparency) compared to belowground tree traits (e.g., fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90root biomass). The altered aboveground traits during the initial years of irrigation increased the water demand and trees adjusted by increasing root biomass during the later years of irrigation, resulting in an increased survival rate of Scots pine trees in irrigated plots. The irrigation also stimulated ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90level foliar decomposition rate, fungal fruit body biomass, and regeneration abundances of broadleaved tree species. However, irrigation did not promote the regeneration of Scots pine trees, which are reported to be vulnerable to extreme droughts. Our results provide extensive evidence that tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90level responses were pervasive across a number of traits on long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term temporal scales. However, after reaching a peak, the magnitude of these responses either decreased or reached a new stable state, providing important insights into how resource alterations could change the system functioning and its boundary conditions.</p", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Atmospheric Science", "Ecosystem Resilience", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Ecosystem properties", "Climate change", "functional traits", "Irrigation", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Climate change; Ecosystem properties; Ecosystem resilience; functional traits; long-term irrigation; Scots pine", "Global and Planetary Change", "Tree Line Shifts", "Ecology", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "Causes and Impacts of Climate Change Over Millennia", "Botany", "15. Life on land", "Pinus", "Agronomy", "6. 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We surveyed 236 dryland ecosystems from six continents to evaluate the relative importance of aridity and mean annual temperature, and of other abiotic (e.g., texture) and biotic (e.g., plant cover) variables as drivers of SVM, calculated as the averaged coefficient of variation for multiple soil variables linked to nutrient stocks and cycling. We found that increases in temperature and aridity were globally correlated to increases in SVM. Some of these climatic effects on SVM were direct, but others were indirectly driven through reductions in the number of vegetation patches and increases in soil sand content. The predictive capacity of our structural equation\uffc2\uffa0modelling was clearly higher for the spatial variability of N\uffe2\uff80\uff90 than for C\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and P\uffe2\uff80\uff90related soil variables. In the case of N cycling, the effects of temperature and aridity were both direct and indirect via changes in soil properties. For C and P, the effect of climate was mainly indirect via changes in plant attributes. These results suggest that future changes in climate may decouple the spatial availability of these elements for plants and microbes in dryland soils. Our findings significantly advance our understanding of the patterns and mechanisms driving SVM in drylands across the globe, which is critical for predicting changes in ecosystem functioning in response to climate change.</p", "keywords": ["Abiotic component", "Atmospheric sciences", "Physical geography", "Arid", "Climate Change", "Soil Science", "Spatial variability", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Soil texture", "Aridity index", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Soil water", "FOS: Mathematics", "Pathology", "Climate change", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Soil science", "2. 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Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Ecosystem Functioning", "Vegetation (pathology)", "Mathematics", "carbon cycling; climate change; multifunctionality; nitrogen cycling; phosphorous cycling; spatial heterogeneity"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/128150/8/Dur-n_et_al-2018-Ecology.pdf"}, {"href": "https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecy.2199"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2199"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/ecy.2199", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/ecy.2199", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/ecy.2199"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:15:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-07-01", "title": "Salinization During Salt-Marsh Restoration After Managed Realignment", "description": "<p>Salt marshes provide an important and unique habitat for plants and animals. To restore salt marshes, numerous coastal realignment projects have been carried out, but restored marshes often show persistent ecological differences from natural marshes. We evaluate the effects of elevation and marsh topography, which are in turn affected by drainage and livestock grazing, on soil salinity after de-embankment. Salinity in the topsoil was monitored during the first 10 years after de-embankment and compared with salinity in an adjacent reference marsh. Additionally, salinity at greater depths (down to 1.2 m below the marsh surface) was monitored during the first 4 years by measuring the electrical conductivity of the groundwater. Chloride concentration in the top soil strongly decreased with increasing elevation; however, it was not affected by marsh topography, i.e. distance to creek or breach. Chloride concentrations higher than 2 g Cl-/litre were found at elevations below 0.6 m + MHT. Salinization of the groundwater, however, took several years. At low marsh elevations, the salinity of the deep groundwater (at 1.2 m depth) increased slowly throughout the full 4-year period of monitoring but did not reach the level of seawater. Compared to the ungrazed treatment, the grazed treatment led to lower accretion rates, lower soil-moisture content and higher chloride content of soil moisture. The de-embankment of the agricultural grasslands resulted in a rapid increase of soil salinity, although deeper ground-water levels showed a much slower response. Elevation accounted for most of the variation in the salinization of the soil. Grazing may enhance salinity of the top soil.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "ARGENTINA", "Ecology", "IMPACT", "WADDEN SEA", "HALOPHYTES", "15. Life on land", "Oceanography", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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Koppenaal,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Coastal%20Conservation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11852-015-0390-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-07-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.033", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:16:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-11-29", "title": "Impacts of forests and forestation on hydrological services in the Andes: A systematic review", "description": "Abstract   Several Andean countries have planned to restore forest cover in degraded land to enhance the provision of multiple ecosystem services in response to international commitments such as the Bonn Challenge. Hydrological services, e.g. water supply, hydrological regulation and erosion mitigation, are particularly important to sustain the life of more than fifty million Andean people. While rapid and important forest cover changes have occurred during recent decades, critical information on the impact of forestation on hydrological services has not yet been synthesized in the context of Andean ecosystems. We define forestation as the establishment of forest by plantation or natural regeneration on areas that either had forest in the past or not. To help improve decision-making on forestation in the Andes, we reviewed the available literature concerning the impacts of forestation on water supply, hydrological regulation and mitigation of erosion and landslides. We also examined available data on the most relevant hydrological processes such as infiltration, evapotranspiration and runoff in forest stands. Hydrological services from native forests were also included as a reference state for comparing processes and services provided by forestation. Following systematic review protocols, we synthesized 155 studies using different methods, including meta-analyses and meta-regressions. Results show that forestation has had clear impacts on degraded soils, through reducing water erosion of soils and risk of moderate floods, increasing soil infiltration rate by 8 and topsoil organic matter (SOM). We found that 20\u202fyears of tree plantation was sufficient to recover infiltration rate and sediment yield close to the levels of native forests whereas SOM, soil water storage and surface runoff of native forests could not be recovered by forestation in the time scales examined. The benefits in terms of hydrological regulation are at the expense of a reduction in total water supply since forest cover was associated with higher water use in most Andean regions. Forestation with native species was underrepresented in the reviewed studies. The impact of forestation on landslides has also been largely overlooked in the Andes. At high elevations, exotic tree plantations on Andean grasslands (e.g. paramo and puna) had the most detrimental consequences since these grasslands showed an excellent capacity for hydrological regulation and erosion mitigation but also a water yield up to 40% higher than tree plantations. People engaged in forest restoration initiative should be aware that hydrological services may take some time for society and the environment to show clear benefits after forestation.", "keywords": ["P33 - Chimie et physique du sol", "Pine plantations", "forest rehabilitation", "propri\u00e9t\u00e9 physicochimique du sol", "550", "F40 - \u00c9cologie v\u00e9g\u00e9tale", "Monitoring", "Ecosystem service", "[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "ecological restoration", "05 Environmental Sciences", "systematic reviews", "0207 environmental engineering", "forest cover", "hydrology", "02 engineering and technology", "hydrologie", "01 natural sciences", "630", "cycle hydrologique", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3062", "for\u00eat", "K01 - Foresterie - Consid\u00e9rations g\u00e9n\u00e9rales", "11. 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We investigated the effects of historical agriculture and contemporary fire frequency on soil properties of longleaf pine woodlands in the Southeastern United States. We sampled 24 pairs of sites from adjacent former agricultural and remnant longleaf pine woodlands based on high (\u2a7e\u00a0four since 1971) and low (", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Forestry", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Nature and Landscape Conservation"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Lauren E. Bizzari, Lars A. Brudvig, Cathy D. Collins, Ellen I. Damschen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.04.006"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forest%20Ecology%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.foreco.2015.04.006", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.foreco.2015.04.006", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.04.006"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.028", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:16:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-28", "title": "Modelling Above Ground Biomass Accumulation Of Mangrove Plantations In Vietnam", "description": "Abstract   In many tropical nations, mangrove forests are essential ecosystems for climate change mitigation and adaptation in coastal regions as they provide important forest resources as well as a suite of other benefits to communities including carbon sequestration. Empirical growth and yield modelling methods derived from terrestrial forestry, which are often robust with respect to forestry forecasting and management, have not often been assessed in mangrove forests yet they are important for underpinning sustainable forest management. We surveyed 89 Rhizophora apiculata mangrove plantations with age ranges from 4 to 26\u202fyear old in Vietnam, destructively harvesting 25 trees for biomass measurements and 70 for stem analyses, to assess increments in biomass and standing timber. Systems of equations were developed to model site index, mean diameter, dominant height, stocking, biomass and timber volume. We found that conventional forest growth modelling methods fitted the observed data well. Similar to terrestrial forests, stand height is a good indicator of site productivity. Mean errors for stand volume and biomass estimated from yield tables were both less than 5.3%. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the biomass model was 12 and RMSE of the volume model was 10.8, suggesting that these methods are applicable to evenly aged monoculture mangrove plantations in Vietnam. Our research also indicated high variation in mean annual increment of biomass (MAI) in the surveyed plantations due to a wide range of age and site conditions. Some R. apiculata plantations in Vietnam can reach a peak aboveground biomass MAI of 22.7\u202fMg\u202fha\u22121 year\u22121, which is among the highest of published values from plantations of the same species worldwide. Further studies addressing the application of terrestrial forest growth methods to mangrove systems are suggested in order to develop reliable and useful tools for sustainable management of this important ecosystem.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Monitoring", "Policy and Law", "Rhizophora apiculata plantation", "1107 Forestry", "Growth and yield modelling", "15. 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Increased production is urgently needed, but high costs and volatile prices are driving farmers into debt. Zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) is a grassroots movement that aims to improve farm viability by reducing costs. In Andhra Pradesh alone, 523,000 farmers have converted 13% of productive agricultural area to ZBNF. However, sustainability of ZBNF is questioned because external nutrient inputs are limited, which could cause a crash in food production. Here, we show that ZBNF is likely to reduce soil degradation and could provide yield benefits for low-input farmers. Nitrogen fixation, either by free-living nitrogen fixers in soil or symbiotic nitrogen fixers in legumes, is likely to provide the major portion of nitrogen available to crops. However, even with maximum potential nitrogen fixation and release, only 52-80% of the national average nitrogen applied as fertilizer is expected to be supplied. Therefore, in higher-input systems, yield penalties are likely. Since biological fixation from the atmosphere is possible only with nitrogen, ZBNF could limit the supply of other nutrients. Further research is needed in higher-input systems to ensure that mass conversion to ZBNF does not limit India's capacity to feed itself.", "keywords": ["Monitoring", "IEAS/POO2501/1", "NE/S009019/1", "330", "Supplementary Data", "QH301 Biology", "NE/P004830/1", "WHEAT", "01 natural sciences", "630", "12. Responsible consumption", "QH301", "NE/M021327/1", "SOIL PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES", "SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy", "FERTILIZER", "Renewable Energy", "Wellcome Trust", "SDG 2 - Zero Hunger", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Planning and Development", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "Geography", "Policy and Law", "Ecology", "Sustainability and the Environment", "Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)", "Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS)", "NE/P019455/1", "1. 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The typology describes different types of public and stakeholder engagement, and the theory comprises four factors that explain much of the variation in outcomes (for the natural environment and/or for participants) between different types of engagement. First, we use a narrative literature search to develop a new typology of stakeholder and public engagement based on agency (who initiates and leads engagement) and mode of engagement (from communication to coproduction). We then propose a theory to explain the variation in outcomes from different types of engagement: (1) a number of socioeconomic, cultural, and institutional contextual factors influence the outcomes of engagement; (2) there are a number of process design factors that can increase the likelihood that engagement leads to desired outcomes, across a wide range of sociocultural, political, economic, and biophysical contexts; (3) the effectiveness of engagement is significantly influenced by power dynamics, the values of participants, and their epistemologies, that is, the way they construct knowledge and which types of knowledge they consider valid; and (4) engagement processes work differently and can lead to different outcomes when they operate over different spatial and temporal scales. We use the theoretical framework to provide practical guidance for those designing engagement processes, arguing that a theoretically informed approach to stakeholder and public engagement has the potential to markedly improve the outcomes of environmental decision\uffe2\uff80\uff90making processes.</p>", "keywords": ["Engagement", "/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft; name=Sustainability Science", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "16. Peace & justice", "/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105; name=Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics", "01 natural sciences", "Knowledge exchange", "Impact", "13. 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However, the direction and quantity of these changes have rarely been quantified in East African savanna ecosystem. As shifts in soil C and N pools might further potentially influence climate change mitigation, we quantified and compared soil organic carbon (SOC) and total soil nitrogen (TSN) content in enclosures and communal grazing lands across varying woody cover i.e. woody encroachment levels. Estimated mean SOC and TSN stocks at 0-40 cm depth varied across grazing regimes and among woody encroachment levels. The open grazing land at the heavily encroached site on sandy loam soil contained the least SOC (30 \u00b1 2.1 Mg ha-1) and TSN (5 \u00b1 0.57 Mg ha-1) while the enclosure at the least encroached site on sandy clay soil had the greatest mean SOC (81.0 \u00b1 10.6 Mg ha-1) and TSN (9.2 \u00b1 1.48 Mg ha-1). Soil OC and TSN did not differ with grazing exclusion at heavily encroached sites, but were twice as high inside enclosure compared to open grazing soils at low encroached sites. Mean SOC and TSN in soils of 0-20 cm depth were up to 120% higher than that of the 21-40 cm soil layer. Soil OC was positively related to TSN, cation exchange capacity (CEC), but negatively related to sand content. Our results show that soil OC and TSN stocks are affected by grazing, but the magnitude is largely influenced by woody encroachment and soil texture. We suggest that improving the herbaceous layer cover through a reduction in grazing and woody encroachment restriction are the key strategies for reducing SOC and TSN losses and, hence, for climate change mitigation in semi-arid rangelands.", "keywords": ["Cation-exchange capacity", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Soil water", "Rangeland Degradation and Pastoral Livelihoods", "2. 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\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Climate", "Evolutionary biology", "Forests", "Estimation of Forest Biomass and Carbon Stocks", "01 natural sciences", "Trees", "Soil", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "FOS: Mathematics", "Biology", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Global and Planetary Change", "Ecology", "Geography", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "Q", "R", "Phosphorus", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Archaeology", "Combinatorics", "13. Climate action", "Tree Allometry", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Tree (set theory)", "Medicine", "Embryophyta", "Tree Height-Diameter Models", "Biomass Estimation", "Mathematics", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116391"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0116391", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0116391", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0116391"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-02-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2111/rem-d-13-00003.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:19:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-10-07", "title": "Response Of Conifer-Encroached Shrublands In The Great Basin To Prescribed Fire And Mechanical Treatments", "description": "AbstractIn response to the recent expansion of pi\u00f1on and juniper woodlands into sagebrush-steppe communities in the northern Great Basin region, numerous conifer-removal projects have been implemented, primarily to release understory vegetation at sites having a wide range of environmental conditions. Responses to these treatments have varied from successful restoration of native plant communities to complete conversion to nonnative invasive species. To evaluate the general response of understory vegetation to tree canopy removal in conifer-encroached shrublands, we set up a region-wide study that measured treatment-induced changes in understory cover and density. Eleven study sites located across four states in the Great Basin were established as statistical replicate blocks, each containing fire, mechanical, and control treatments. Different cover groups were measured prior to and during the first 3 yr following treatment. There was a general pattern of response across the wide range of site conditions. There was an immediate increase in bare ground and decrease in tall perennial grasses following the fire treatment, but both recovered by the second or third growing season after treatment. Tall perennial grass cover increased in the mechanical treatment in the second and third year, and in the fire treatment cover was higher than the control by year 3. Nonnative grass and forb cover did not increase in the fire and mechanical treatments in the first year but increased in the second and third years. Perennial forb cover increased in both the fire and mechanical treatments. The recovery of herbaceous cover groups was from increased growth of residual vegetation, not density. Sagebrush declined in the fire treatment, but seedling density increased in both treatments. Biological soil crust declined in the fire treatment, with no indications of recovery. Differences in plant response that occurred between mechanical and fire treatments should be considered when selecting management options.", "keywords": ["580", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "pi\u00c3\u00b1on-juniper", "western juniper", "restoration", "Ecology", "Plant Sciences", "single-needle pi\u00c3\u00b1on", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "15. Life on land", "nonnative species", "01 natural sciences", "pi\u00f1on-juniper", "pi\u00f1on\u2013juniper", "Utah juniper", "cheatgrass", "Animal Science and Zoology", "single-needle pi\u00f1on", "sagebrush", "resilience", "Nature and Landscape Conservation"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Miller, Richard F., Ratchford, Jaime, Roundy, Bruce A., Tausch, Robin J., Hulet, April, Chambers, Jeanne C.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/sagestep_articles/article/1024/viewcontent/SAGEcenterart2014MillerRatchfordRoundy_ResponseConiferEncroached.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.2111/rem-d-13-00003.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Rangeland%20Ecology%20%26amp%3B%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2111/rem-d-13-00003.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.2111/rem-d-13-00003.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2111/rem-d-13-00003.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/resources12120139", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:21:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-11-22", "title": "First Steps in Developing a Fast, Cheap, and Reliable Method to Distinguish Wild Mushroom and Truffle Species", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Wild mushrooms and truffles (MT) are important resources, which can contribute to the socioeconomic sustainability of forestry ecosystems. However, not all wild MT are edible. Fast, cheap, and reliable methods that distinguish wild MT species (including the deadly ones) can contribute to valuing these important forest resources. Here, we tested if wild MT species, and their edibility, could be distinguished based on their aroma profiles (i.e., smellprints). For that, we combined the use of the electronic nose with classification models (linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA)) to distinguish between 14 wild MT species (including edible and non-edible species) collected in Portugal. The 14 wild MT species could be accurately distinguished using LDA (93% accuracy), while the edible and non-edible species could be accurately distinguished using both LDA and PLS-DA (97% and 99% accuracy, respectively). Keeping in mind that our methodological design\u2019s feasibility was verified using a small sample, the data show the potential of the combined use of the electronic nose with discriminant analysis to distinguish wild MT species and their edibility based on their aromatic profile. Although a larger dataset will be necessary to develop a quick and reliable identification method, it shows potential to be as accurate as the identification performed by mycologists and molecular biology, yet requiring less technical training, and the analyses are cheaper and faster.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Agriculture and Food Sciences", "electronic nose", "electronic nose; forest resources; identification method; volatile profile; wild mushrooms and truffles", "identification method", "IDENTIFICATION", "Science", "Q", "FUNGI", "volatile profile", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "NUTRITIONAL-VALUE", "15. Life on land", "CHEMICAL-COMPOSITION", "FOREST", "0404 agricultural biotechnology", "FOOD", "MANAGEMENT", "wild mushrooms and truffles", "0405 other agricultural sciences", "POISONOUS MUSHROOMS", "forest resources", "Nature and Landscape Conservation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/resources12120139"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Resources", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/resources12120139", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/resources12120139", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/resources12120139"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-11-22T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/bg-10-3691-2013", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:21:36Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-01-14", "title": "A meta-analysis on the impacts of partial cutting on forest structure and carbon storage", "description": "<p>Abstract. Partial cutting, which removes some individual trees from a forest, is one of the major and widespread forest management practices that can significantly alter both forest structure and carbon (C) storage. Using 746 observations from 82 publications, we synthesized the impacts of partial cutting on three variables associated with forest structure (i.e. mean annual growth of diameter at breast height (DBH), basal area (BA), and volume) and four variables related to various C stock components (i.e. aboveground biomass C (AGBC), understory C, forest floor C, and mineral soil C). Results shows that the growth of DBH elevated by 112% after partial cutting, compared to the uncut control, while stand BA and volume reduced immediately by 34% and 29%, respectively. On average, partial cutting reduced AGBC by 43%, increased understory C storage by 392%, but did not show significant effects on C storages on forest floor and in mineral soil. All the effects on DBH growth, stand BA, volume, and AGBC intensified linearly with cutting intensity (CI) and decreased linearly with the number of recovery years (RY). In addition to the strong impacts of CI and RY, other factors such as climate zone and forest type also affected forest responses to partial cutting. The data assembled in this synthesis were not sufficient to determine how long it would take for a complete recovery after cutting because long-term experiments were rare. Future efforts should be tailored to increase the duration of the experiments and balance geographic locations of field studies.                         </p>", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Sustainable forest management", "Volume (thermodynamics)", "Diameter at breast height", "Forest Carbon Sequestration", "Estimation of Forest Biomass and Carbon Stocks", "Quantum mechanics", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "Basal area", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Life", "Forest structure", "QH501-531", "Development and Impacts of Bioenergy Crops", "FOS: Mathematics", "Climate change", "Carbon stock", "Agroforestry", "Biology", "QH540-549.5", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "QE1-996.5", "Global and Planetary Change", "Understory", "Forest management", "Ecology", "Geography", "Physics", "Confidence interval", "Statistics", "Canopy", "Life Sciences", "Geology", "Forestry", "15. Life on land", "Clearcutting", "Climate Change Impacts on Forest Carbon Sequestration", "Forest Site Productivity", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Tree Height-Diameter Models", "Agronomy and Crop Science", "Biomass Estimation", "Animal science", "Mathematics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3691-2013"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biogeosciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/bg-10-3691-2013", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/bg-10-3691-2013", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/bg-10-3691-2013"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.9ghx3ffpz", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:21:26Z", "type": "Dataset", "created": "2023-10-24", "title": "The functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests - the FunDivEUROPE dataset", "description": "unspecifiedGeneral design  The FunDivEUROPE project,  short for 'Functional Significance of Forest Biodiversity in  Europe,' aimed at exploring the intricate relationships between  forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, focusing specifically on  European forests (Baeten et al., 2019; Baeten et al., 2013; Ratcliffe et  al., 2017; van der Plas et al., 2016a; van der Plas et al., 2016b; van der  Plas et al., 2018). In total, 209 mature forest plots measuring 30 x 30  meters were located in six European countries, ranging from boreal to  Mediterranean zones, and with each representing a major European forest  type: Finland (28 plots, boreal forest), Poland (43 plots, hemiboreal  forest), Germany (38 plots, temperate deciduous forest), Romania (28  plots, mountainous deciduous forest), Italy (36 plots, thermophilous  deciduous forest), and Spain (36 plots, Mediterranean mixed forest). These  plots were primarily established to investigate the role of the richness  of regionally common and economically important \u2018target\u2019 species on  ecosystem functioning and were hence selected to differ as much as  possible in the richness of these. Plot selection was aimed at mimicking  the design of a biodiversity experiment, in which variation in environment  is minimized and diversity is not confounded with composition, as in most  observational studies of diversity. Hence, plots were carefully selected  so that correlations between tree species richness and community  composition, topography (slope, altitude), and potentially confounding  soil factors (texture, depth, pH) were minimized, thus ensuring robust  tests of diversity-ecosystem function relationships (comparative study  design). Most forest plots were historically used for timber production  but are now managed by low-frequency thinning or with minimal  intervention. Hence, species compositions and diversity patterns in  forests are predominantly management-driven and/or are the result of  random species assembly, from the regional species pool. All sites are  considered as mature forests. In total, there were 15 target  species across all 209 plots, and plots were selected so that almost all  possible combinations of these target species were realized. Target  species contributed to more than 90% of the tree biomass in the plots and  therefore we expected them to be most important for ecosystem functioning.  Richness levels of one, two, three, four, and five target species were  replicated 56, 67, 54, 29, and 3 times, respectively, across countries,  and most possible target species compositions were realized. For the  majority of species combinations, we included two or more \u201crealizations\u201d  (not strict replicates, because species abundances differ), which allows  for comparing the importance of species diversity with that of species  composition for this subset of plots. At each richness level, each target  tree species was present in at least one plot, allowing us to  statistically test for the effects of presence/absence of species on  ecosystem functioning. Since species evenness might also affect ecosystem  functioning, all plots were selected to have target species with similar  abundances (with Pielou\u2019s evenness values above 0.6 in &gt; 91% of the  plots). To reach this goal, we <em>a priori</em> decided to  exclude locally rare target species (&lt;2 individuals per plot) in  richness measures. To describe community composition and to estimate  biomass values of each tree in each plot, we identified all stems \u22657.5 cm  in diameter to species and permanently marked them (12,939 stems in  total). More details about the design of the FunDivEUROPE plot network can  be found in Baeten et al. (2013). We determined a high number of basic  data for each of the 209 plots, describing geographic and  geomorphological, as well as soil and bedrock characteristics, see also  Ratcliffe et al (2017). Soil pH was determined in the same samples used  for C and N determination (see below) with a 0.01M  CaCl<sub>2</sub> solution at a ratio of 1:2.5 using a 827 pH  labs Metrohm AG, Herisau, Switzerland; see details in Dawud et al. (2017).  For each plot, we extracted mean annual temperature, temperature  seasonality (standard deviation of mean monthly temperatures), annual  precipitation, and precipitation seasonality (standard deviation of mean  monthly precipitation) from the WorldClim dataset (interpolated from  measurements taken between 1960 and to 1990 and at a spatial resolution of  one square kilometer) and the slope from the GTOPO30\u2014digital elevation  model with a spatial resolution of one square kilometer (data available  from the U.S. Geological Survey); see details in Kambach et al. (2019). We  further quantified several measures of tree diversity, based on the  initial inventory made in each plot, see Baeten et al. (2013). Short  description of all these variables are available in the \u201cMetadata\u201d sheet  of the data file. Ecosystem functions  methodology A major strength of the FunDivEUROPE  project was the general philosophy to measure all ecosystem functions in  all plots, following the same protocol by the same observers across the  six forest types. Measurements are thus directly comparable across plots  and show high coverage. In each of the 209 plots, 27  ecosystem functions were measured. The functions were <em>a  priori</em> classified into six groups reflecting basic ecological  processes (groups 1 to 5 below), and which have established links to  supporting, provisioning, regulating, or cultural ecosystem services.  These functions were also used in Chao et al. (in press): Hill-Chao  numbers allow decomposing gamma-multifunctionality into alpha and beta  components. Ecology Letters. In addition, we quantified timber quality as  an additional ecosystem service. \u00a0 In the  following, we describe the methodology for each measured ecosystem  function/service. (For more details, see also Baeten et al., 2019;  Ratcliffe et al., 2017; van der Plas et al., 2016a; van der Plas et al.,  2016b; van der Plas et al., 2018), and other FunDivEUROPE publications  that focus on specific ecosystem properties and functions. Additional  datasets are stored in the FunDivEUROPE data portal  (https://data.botanik.uni-halle.de/fundiveurope/, logon required to view  most data; all metadata is publicly available). 1.  Nutrient and carbon cycling-related drivers (header in the data table in  parentheses): a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Earthworm biomass: \u00a0Biomass of all earthworms [g m<sup>-2</sup>] (earthworm_biomass) Earthworm sampling was carried out in spring 2012 in Italy, Germany, and Finland, and in autumn 2012 in Poland, Romania, and Spain. Plots were divided in nine (10 x 10) m subplots. One sample per plot was taken in the center subplot. Sampling close to tree stems was avoided and whenever possible performed, in between multiple, different tree species. At each sampling point, earthworms were sampled by means of a combined method. First litter was handsorted over an area of (25 x 25) cm<sup>2</sup>. After litter removal over an enlarged area of 0.5 m\u00b2, ethological extraction using a mustard suspension was applied. Finally, hand sorting of a soil sample of (25 \u00d7 25) cm<sup>2</sup> and 20 cm depth was performed in the middle of the 0.5 m\u00b2 area. Earthworms were preserved in ethanol (70%) for two weeks, and transferred to a 5% formaldehyde solution for fixation (until constant weight), after which they were transferred to ethanol (70%) again for further preservation and identification. All worms were individually weighed, including gut content, and identified to species level. \u00a0Results per unit area of the three sampling techniques were summed to determine the total earthworm biomass per m\u00b2. For details on earthworm biomass measurements, we refer to De Wandeler et al. (2018; 2016). b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fine woody debris: Number of snags and standing dead trees shorter than 1.3 m and thinner than 5 cm DBH, and all stumps and other dead wood pieces lying on the forest floor (fine_woody_debris) Fine woody debris (FWD) was measured in two circular subplots (radius of 7 m) located in the opposite corners of each plot. All standing dead trees thinner than 5 cm diameter at breast height and snags shorter than 1.3 m, and all stumps and other dead wood pieces lying on the forest floor, were surveyed. In this study, we used the number of FWD pieces in each plot. c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Microbial biomass: Mineral soil (0\u20135cm layer) microbial biomass carbon [mg C kg<sup>-1</sup>] (microbial_biomass_mineral) For soil sampling, each of the 209 plots was divided into nine 10x10m subplots. A soil sample was taken from five of the nine subplots and mixed to obtain one representative composite sample from each plot. Forest floor and mineral soil horizons (0-5 cm) were sampled separately. Soils were sieved fresh (4mm), stored at 4\u00b0C and analyzed within two weeks. Sampling was performed in spring 2012 in Italy, Germany, and Finland, and in autumn 2012 in Poland, Romania, and Spain. No forest floor was collected from the plots in Germany. Soil microbial biomass C was determined by the chloroform fumigation extraction method, of 10g and 15g (organic and mineral soil, respectively) soil, followed by 0.5 M K<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> extraction of both fumigated and unfumigated soils (soil:solution ratio, 1:5). Fumigations were carried out for three days in vacuum desiccators with alcohol-free chloroform. Extracts were filtered (Whatman n\u00b0 42), and dissolved organic carbon in fumigated and unfumigated extracts was measured with a Total Organic Carbon analyser (Labtoc, Pollution and Process Monitoring Limited, UK). Soil microbial biomass C was calculated by dividing the difference of total extract between fumigated and unfumigated samples with a kEC (extractable part of microbial biomass C after fumigation) of 0.45 for biomass C (Joergensen and Mueller, 1996). d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Soil carbon stocks: \u00a0Total soil carbon stock in forest floor and 0\u201310 cm mineral soil layer combined [Mg ha<sup>-1</sup>] (soil_c_ff_10) Soil sampling was carried out from May 2012 to October 2012 (i.e. Poland in May 2012, Spain in June 2012, Finland and Germany in August 2012, Romania in September 2012 and Italy in October 2012). Nine forest floor samples and nine cores of mineral soil were collected from each plot and these were subsequently pooled into one sample per plot by each soil layer, i.e. forest floor, 0\u201310cm and 10\u201320cm depths for samples from Germany, Finland, Italy, and Romania. For Poland, the fixed depth was extended to 20\u201330cm and 30\u201340 cm whereas for Spain it was only possible to sample up to the 0\u201310cm layer due to the stoniness of the site. We oven-dried the samples at 55\u00b0C to constant weight, sorted out stones and other materials, ground the forest floor first with a heavy-duty SM 2000-Retsch cutting mill, and we then took subsamples and ground it further into finer particles with a planetary ball mill (PM 400-Retsch) for six minutes at 280rpm. The mineral soil samples were sieved through 2mm diameter mesh. We carried out carbonate removal treatments for those soil samples whose pH value exceeded the threshold point and proved presence of carbonates when tested with a 4N HCl fizz test. We used 6% (w/v) H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>3</sub> solution and followed the carbonate removal procedure described by\u00a0(Skjemstad and Baldock, 2007). We took subsamples and further ground it into finer particles with a planetary ball mill (PM 400-Retsch) for six minutes at 280 rpm before analyzing soil organic carbon (SOC) with a Thermo Scientific FLASH 2000 soil CN analyzer. Soil organic C stocks were estimated by multiplying the SOC concentrations with soil bulk density, relative root volume and relative stone volume using the formula described in Vesterdal et al., (2008). We also determined the moisture content of the soil samples by oven-dried subsamples at 105\u00b0C and the reported SOC stock is thus on 105\u00b0C dry weight basis.\u00a0 2. Nutrient cycling related processes a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Litter decomposition: Decomposition of leaf litter using the litterbag methodology [% daily rate] (litter_decomp_day) Litter collection and litterbag construction Leaf litter from all target tree species of the cross-region exploratory platform was collected at tree species-specific peak leaf litter fall between October 2011 and November 2012. Except for the Finnish forests, where freshly fallen leaf litter was collected from the forest floor, litter was collected using suspended litter traps, which were regularly harvested at one to two-week intervals. In all cases, litter was collected nearby, but not within the experimental plots. Litter was then air-dried and stored until the preparation of the litterbags. Litterbags (15 x 15 cm) were constructed using polyethylene fabrics of two different mesh sizes. For the bottom side of the litterbags, we used a small mesh width of 0.5 x 0.5 mm in order to minimize losses of litter fragments, while for the upper side, we used a large mesh width of 5 x 8 mm to allow soil macrofauna access to the litter within bags. Litterbags were filled with 10 g of litter. For litter mixtures, litterbags were filled with equivalent proportion of each litter species. Subsamples of all litter species were weighed, dried at 65\u00b0C for 48 h and reweighed to get a 65\u00b0C dry mass correction factor. Litterbag incubation Within each experimental plot, three litterbags with the plot-specific litter type (either single litter species or specific mixtures) were placed on bare soil after the natural litter layer had been removed, and fixed to the soil by placing chicken wire on top of it. The litterbags were removed from the field when 50\u201360% of the initial litter mass of the region\u2019s fastest decomposing species was remaining (evaluated with an extra set of litterbags that were harvested regularly). As a consequence, the duration of litter decomposition varied among regions. This procedure ensured that litter was sampled at similar decomposition stages across all sites, facilitating meaningful comparisons of litter diversity effects. Litter processing Harvested litterbags were sent to Montpellier where they were dried at 65\u00b0C. Litter was cleaned of pieces of wood, stones or other foreign material that occasionally got into the litterbags. Litter was then weighed, ground to a particle size of 1 mm with a Cyclotec Sample Mill (Tecator, H\u00f6gan\u00e4s, Sweden). To correct for potential soil contamination during decomposition in the field, we determined the ash content of initial and final litter material on all samples and expressed litter mass loss on ash-free litter mass.\u00a0 Litter mass loss was expressed as the percentage of mass lost from each litterbag, calculated as followed: Mass Loss = 100 x (Initial (ash free) mass \u2013 Final (ash free) mass)/Initial (ash free) mass. For details on litter decomposition measurements, we refer to Joly et al. (2017; 2023). b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nitrogen resorption efficiency: Difference in N content between green and senescent leaves divided by N content of green leaves [%] (nutrient_resorption_efficiency) In each plot, fresh leaf and needle samples were collected from the south-exposed sun crown of all dominant tree species during the growing season (June to August) of 2012 and 2013. Twigs with leaves and needles were cut down from six trees per species in the monocultures and from three trees per species in the mixtures. Depending on the local conditions, tree loppers, tree climbers, or ruffles were used for this purpose. The selected material was placed in paper bags and was either oven-dried or air-dried, depending on the facilities available. Furthermore, collection of leaves from the litter traps, as representative of senescent leaves, has been conducted at periods of maximum litterfall during 2012 and 2013. For this purpose, five litter traps per plot were established and the collected litter was separated into the different species it originated from (see \u201cLitter production\u201d below). All samples were ground and analysed for nitrogen and calcium content by means of Near Infra Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) as described in detail by Pollastrini et al. (2016a). For the calibration of the NIRS spectra for the Ca analysis, a subset of samples was analysed with an atom absorption spectrometer (AAS, iCE 3000 series, ThermoScientific, China). Nitrogen resorption efficiency was calculated as follows, taking into account the N content of green and senescent leaves: NRE(%) = 100 x ((N green leaves - N senescent leaves)/(N green leaves)) Furthermore, the estimated NRE was corrected in order to take into account the leaf mass loss occurring during senescence. Thus, NRE was corrected based on the Ca foliar concentration, since Ca is rather immobile and is not resorbed during senescence (Van Heerwaarden et al., 2003). To validate the correction of NRE based on Ca concentrations, the Mass Loss Correction Factors (MLCF) suggested by Vergutz et al. (2012) have also been used. c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Soil C/N ratio: Soil C/N ratio in forest floor and 0\u201310 cm mineral soil layer combined (soil_cn_ff_10) Soil sampling was carried out between May 2012 and October 2012 in all the regions.\u00a0Nine forest floor samples were collected using a 25 x 25 cm wooden frame, and the mineral soil (0-10 cm layer) was sampled, after forest floor removal, using a cylindrical metal corer. Total soil carbon and nitrogen concentrations were measured with a Thermo Scientific FLASH 2000 soil CN analyser on the forest floor and 0-10 cm layer samples. For full details on soil carbon and nitrogen methodology see Dawud et al. (2017). d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wood decomposition: Decomposition of flat wooden sticks placed on forest floor [% daily rate] (wood_decomp_day) Flat wooden sticks (wooden tongue depressors made of <em>Betula pendula</em> wood) were placed to decompose at each plot of the exploratory platform. Each wooden stick was initially weighed (average of 2.5 g). As the weighing was done on air-dry sticks, subsamples were weighed, dried at 65\u00b0C for 48 h and reweighed to get a 65\u00b0C dry mass correction factor. Within each plot, three wooden sticks were placed on the bare soil after the natural litter layer had been locally removed, and fixed to the soil by placing chicken wire on top of it. The wooden sticks stayed in the field for different durations among regions depending on the mass loss of the region\u2019s fastest decomposing litter species (target of 50 to 60 % mass remaining), that was placed in the field at the same time as the wooden sticks.\u00a0 After field exposure wooden sticks were harvested, dried at 65\u00b0C, and weighed. Mass loss of wooden sticks was expressed as the percentage of initial mass lost, calculated as followed: Mass Loss = 100 x (Initial mass \u2013 Final mass)/Initial mass. For details on wood decomposition measurements, we refer to Joly et al. (2017; 2023). 3. Primary production a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fine root biomass: Total biomass of living fine roots in forest floor and 0-10 mineral soil layer combined [g m<sup>-2</sup>] (root_biomass) On each plot for determining fine root biomass, nine soil samples were taken from a predefined grid. The sampling was done in the six countries during May-October 2012. The forest floor was sampled using a wooden frame of size 25 cm x 25 cm, and thereafter the mineral soil was sampled using a cylindrical metal corer with 36 mm of inside diameter. The mineral soil was sampled down to 20 cm, except for the plots in Poland (down to 40 cm) and in Spain (down to 10 cm). Samples were pooled by layer and plot into one sample. Living fine roots (diameter \u2264 2 mm) were separated from the soil samples by hand to two categories, tree roots and ground vegetation roots. After separation, the roots were washed with water to remove adhering soil. Subsequently, the roots were dried at 40\u00b0C until constant mass and weighed for biomass. The root biomass was corrected with a correction factor for soil stoniness (CFstones= 100-(% stones)/100), where the respective volumetric stoniness was estimated with the metal rod method (Tamminen and Starr, 1994) on each plot. For this study, total tree fine root biomass for each plot was calculated (g m<sup>-2</sup>) for the sampled soil layer (forest floor + sampled mineral soil). For further details, see also Fin\u00e9r et al. (2017). b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leaf mass: Leaf Area Index (lai) As a proxy for the leaf mass of each plot, we used the Leaf Area Index (LAI), which is the projected leaf area per unit of ground area. Five measurements of LAI in each plot were carried out at two time points, either early in the morning (shortly before sunrise) or late in the evening (shortly after sunset) in order to work in the presence of diffuse solar radiation and thus reduce the effect of scattered blue light in the canopy. LAI measurements were carried out in early September 2012, before the beginning of leaf shedding, using a Plant Canopy Analyzer LAI-2000 (LI-Cor Inc., Nebraska). With the LAI-2000, the incident light above the canopy and the light transmission below the canopy were measured using one sensor with five fisheye light sensors (lenses), with central zenith angle of 7\u00b0,23\u00b0, 38\u00b0, 53\u00b0 and 68\u00b0 (LAI-2000 manual, Li-Cor). The protocol used in each plot consisted of five measurements within the plots (light transmission below the canopy), and five measurements outside the forest (as proxy of the light incidence above the canopy), in an open space that was in close proximity of the sampled plots. LAI data were processed using Li-Cor\u2019s FV2200 software (LI-COR Biogeosciences, Inc. 2010). The light transmittance measurements of the fifth ring were removed to minimise the boundary effects on LAI. The LAI value per plot was the mean value of the five measurements for each plot. \u00a0For full details of the LAI measurement, see Pollastrini et al., (2016a) c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Litter production: Annual production of foliar litter dry mass [g] (leaf_litter_production) In each of the 209 plots, five geodetic litter traps of 0.5m\u00b2 collection surface were installed in a regular grid. The sampling period covered a whole year and litters were collected several times. Sampling frequency was irregular and depended on working capacity within a region and seasonality of litter production. The litter was pooled per plot, and stored in plastic bags for transportation from the field site to the local laboratories. After air-drying, litter samples were sorted by species and by different fractions for dry weighing and chemical analysis. The following fractions were used: foliar litter (leaves or needles), woody litter (twigs, branches, bark parts), reproductive litter (flowers, cones, fruits, seeds, fruit capsules, etc.), other (e.g. bud scales, indefinable or small parts). Here, only the foliar litter is reported. A subsample of all litter types per species and region was dried at 65\u00b0C to constant weight to determine the conversion factor from air-dried to oven-dried values of litter dry mass (g). d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Photosynthetic efficiency: Chlorophyll fluorescence methodology [ChlF] (photo_eff_tot) Photosynthetic efficiency was measured using chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF). ChlF measurements were replicated on eight randomly chosen leaves per tree from both the top and the bottom of the crown. The measurements were done on the twigs after the dark adaptation (i.e. after a minimum of 4 hours in a black plastic bag, at ambient temperature). In evergreen conifers, chlorophyll fluorescence measurements were taken in the current year\u2019s needles (i.e. needles sprouted in 2012). For full details of the ChlF measurement see Pollastrini et al. (2016b). e.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree productivity: Annual aboveground wood production [Mg C ha<sup>-1</sup> yr<sup>-1</sup>] (tree_growth) Wood cores Tree ring data were used to reconstruct the past annually resolved wood production. Between March and October of 2012, bark-to-pith increment cores (5 mm in diameter) were collected for a subset of trees in each plot following a size-stratified random sampling approach (Jucker et al., 2014a). We cored 12 trees per plot in monocultures and six trees per species in mixtures (except in Poland, where only five cores per species were taken in all plots due to restrictions imposed by park authorities), for a total of 3138 cored trees. Short of coring all trees within a stand, this approach has been shown to provide the most reliable estimates of plot-level productivity when using tree ring data, as it ensured that the size distribution of each plot is adequately represented by the subsample. Wood cores were stored in polycarbonate sheeting and allowed to air dry before being mounted on wooden boards and sanded with progressively finer grit sizes. A high-resolution flatbed scanner (2400 dpi optical resolution) was then used to image the cores. \u00a0From tree rings to aboveground wood production We followed a four-step approach (i\u2013iv) to estimate temporal trends in aboveground wood production (AWP, in MgC ha<sup>-1</sup> yr<sup>-1</sup>) from tree ring data (Jucker et al., 2014a). i.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Measuring growth increments from wood cores We measured yearly radial growth increments (mm yr<sup>-1</sup>) for each cored tree from the scanned images. To minimize measurement errors associated with incorrectly placed ring boundaries, we crossdated each sample against a species-level reference curve obtained by averaging all ring-width chronologies belonging to a given species from a given site. In this process, 188 cores which showed poor agreement with reference curves were excluded from further analysis, giving a final total of 2950 tree ring chronologies. Both radial growth measurements and crossdating were performed using CDendro (Cybis Elektronik &amp; Data, Saltsj\u00f6baden, Sweden). Here we report data from the five-year period between 2007 and 2011. ii. Converting diameter increments into biomass growth We combined radial increments and allometric functions to express the growth rate of individual trees in units of biomass. We calculated the average yearly biomass growth between 2007\u20132011 (G, kgC yr<sup>-1</sup>) of cored trees as G = (AGBt<sub>2</sub> \u2013 AGBt<sub>1</sub>)/ \u0394t, where AGBt<sub>2</sub> is the tree\u2019s biomass, estimated with equations presented in Jucker et al. (2014b) in the most recent time period (i.e., end of 2011) and AGBt<sub>1</sub> is its biomass at the previous time step (i.e., end of 2006), \u0394t and is the elapsed time (i.e., five years). AGBt<sub>1</sub> was estimated by replacing current diameter and height measurements used to fit biomass equations with past values. Past diameters were reconstructed directly from wood core samples by progressively subtracting each year\u2019s diameter increment. Height growth was estimated by using height-diameter functions to predict the past height of a tree based on its past diameter. iii. Modelling individual tree biomass growth We modelled the biomass growth of each species as a function of tree size, competition for light, species richness, and a random plot effect: log(G<sub>i</sub>) = \u03b1<sub>j[i]</sub> + \u03b2<sub>1</sub> x log(D<sub>i</sub>) + \u03b2<sub>2</sub> x CI<sub>i</sub> + \u03b2<sub>3</sub> x SR<sub>j</sub> + \u03b5<sub>i</sub>\u00a0 where G<sub>i</sub>, D<sub>i</sub> and CI<sub>i</sub> are, respectively, the biomass growth, stem diameter and crown illumination index of tree i growing in plot j; SR<sub>j</sub> is the species richness of plot j; \u03b1<sub>j</sub> is a species\u2019 intrinsic growth rate for a tree growing in plot j; \u03b2<sub>1-3</sub> are, respectively, a species\u2019 growth response to size, light availability and species richness; and \u03b5<sub>i</sub> is the residual error. The structure of the growth model is adapted from Jucker et al. (2014b) and was fitted using the lmer function in R. Model robustness was assessed both visually, by comparing plots of predicted vs observed growth, and through a combination of model selection and goodness-of-fit tests (AIC model comparison and R<sup>2</sup>). Across all species, individual growth models explained much of the variation in growth among trees (Jucker et al., 2014a). iv. Scaling up to plot-level AWP To quantify AWP at the plot level, we used the fitted growth models to estimate the biomass growth of all trees that had not been cored. For each plot, we then summed the biomass growth of all standing trees to obtain an estimate of AWP. Growth estimates were generated using the predict.lmer function in R. f.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree biomass: Aboveground biomass of all trees [Mg C ha<sup>-1</sup>] (tree_biomass) In each plot, the aboveground biomass (AGB, Mg C ha<sup>-1</sup>) of all the individual trees was estimated using tree diameter and height measurements in combination with species-specific biomass functions (see above). Biomass estimates of the individual trees were then summed to quantify the plot-level tree biomass. g.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Understorey biomass: Dry weight of all understorey vegetation in a quadrant [g] (total_understorey_weight) In three subplots in each plot (upper right, central, lower left), a quadrant of 5 m x 5 m was marked for identification and estimation of cover of understorey vascular plant species (both woody and non-woody). Within each quadrant, all understorey vegetation was identified to species and afterwards clipped in a zone of 0.5 m x 0.5 m, where vegetation was relatively abundant and the composition was representative of the whole quadrant. The biomass samples (g) were dried for 48 h at 70\u00b0C before weighing. 4 4.\u00a0Regeneration a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sapling growth: Growth of saplings up to 1.60 m tall [cm] (sapling_growth) Sapling growth measurements (cm) were taken in 2012 on a total of 30 saplings per species wherever possible. Saplings (up to 1.60 m tall) of all tree species in the regional species pool were selected in a subplot of 4x4 m located in the central part of the main plot. Sapling growth was quantified as the distance between the bud scars (internodes) along the main stem of the last five years (i.e. from 2007 to 2011), without considering the shoot of the current growing season. For details on the methodology, see Bastias et al. (2019). b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree seedling regeneration: Number of saplings up to 1.60 m tall (regeneration_seedlings) Field sampling for tree seedling regeneration was carried out at the same time and in the same subplot as the tree juvenile regeneration (see below). Tree seedling regeneration was quantified as the number of tree seedlings (i.e. less than a year old) of all tree species in the regional species pool. For details on the methodology, see Bastias et al. (2019). c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree juvenile regeneration: Number of tree seedlings less than a year old (regeneration_juveniles) Field sampling to quantify regeneration was carried out in 2012, from April to late August, in a subplot of 4x4m (16m2) delimited in the central part of the main plot. Tree juvenile regeneration was quantified as the number of sapling trees of tree species in the regional species pool over one year old and up to 1.60 m tall. For details on the methodology, see Bastias et al. (2019). 5 5.\u00a0Resistance to disturbance a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Resistance to drought: Difference in carbon isotope composition in wood cores between dry and wet years [\u2030] (wue) For each plot, we randomly selected six trees among the 12 largest ones (i.e. largest diameter at breast height, DBH). For the mixed plots, three trees per species were randomly selected among the six largest trees of each species. This selection was conducted as to only select dominant and/or co-dominant trees in order to avoid confounding factors related to light interception. From each selected tree, a wood core was extracted at breast height during the summers of 2012 and 2013. For each site, we selected two years with contrasting climatic conditions during the growing season (dry vs. wet year) during the 1997-2010 period, see Grossiord et al. (2014) for full details. Latewood samples from these two years were carefully extracted from each wood core. The late wood sections from a given year and a given species in a given plot were bulked and analyzed for their carbon isotope composition (\u03b4<sup>13</sup>C, \u2030) with a mass spectrometer. By only selecting latewood sections, we characterized the functioning of the trees during the second part of the growing season and avoided potential effects related to the remobilization of stored carbohydrates from the previous growing season or to a favorable spring climate. Plot-level \u03b4<sup>13</sup>C was calculated as the basal-area weighted average value of species-level \u03b4<sup>13</sup>C measurements. Soil drought exposure in each forest stand was calculated as the stand-level increase in carbon isotope composition of late wood from the wet to the dry year (\u0394\u03b4<sup>13</sup>CS). For more details on resistance to drought measurements, we refer to Grossiord et al. 2014 (2014). b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Resistance to insect damage: Foliage not damaged by insects [%] (resistance_insects) As for fungal pathogens sampling (see below), we estimated insect herbivory on six trees per species in monocultures and three trees per focal species in mixed forests. The herbivory assessment was done once, from late spring to early summer (see periods on fungal pathogens protocol below). The insect herbivory protocol was derived from the ICP Forests manual. It was adapted to better account for total insect damage by observing the whole tree crown, instead of the \u201cassessable crown\u201d only. Damage on the crown exposed to sunlight and in the shade was recorded separately, as foliar loss may be also due to competition for light or natural pruning in the shaded part, particularly in heliophilous tree species. We considered damage as leaf area loss or shoot mortality i.e. defoliation. To estimate herbivore impact, we compared the sampled trees to a \u201creference tree\u201d, i.e. a healthy tree with intact foliage in its vicinity. Using binoculars, we estimated the proportion of defoliation in the living crown (i.e. the crown excluding the dead branches) in both parts of the crown (sunlight-exposed PDL and in the shade PDS) and put the estimates in one out of seven percentage classes: 0%, 0.5-1%, 1-12.5%, 12.5-25%, 25-50%, 50-75% and &gt; 75% damage. The assessment was done from at least two sides of the crown to account for all damage. When a different score was attributed from different sides to a focal tree, the mean of damage class median was used. The total percent of defoliation was calculated as the natural logarithm of the sum of PDL and PDS. For further details on the methodology, see Guyot et al. (2016). c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Resistance to mammal browsing: Twigs not damaged by browsers [%] (lack_browsing) All plots were sampled using four 5m x 5m subplots located in the same areas of each plot.\u00a0 Within each of the four 5x5m subplots each woody species individual was visually inspected for browsing damage (bitten twigs).\u00a0 When browsing was found, the species was recorded, an estimation of the percentage of twigs browsed (between a height of 0.5\u20132 m) was made (biomass removed), and the stem diameter (at the base) and upper and lower limits of browsing were recorded. With these data, a plot-level average of the percentage of twigs browsed was calculated, and resistance to mammal browsing was defined as 100 - % of twigs browsed. d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Resistance to pathogen damage: Foliage not damaged by pathogens [%] (no_pathogen_damage) Fungal pathogen damage was assessed over a two-week period at each plot during the growing period, over two years. Foliage was collected from Italy (June-July 2012), Germany (July 2012), Finland (August 2012), Spain (June 2013), Romania (July 2013), and Poland (July-August 2013). In each plot, the six trees with the largest DBH per species were selected for trees within monoculture plots, and three trees with the largest DBH per species for trees within mixture plots. Foliage (leaves and shoots) samples were collected from branches from two levels of the tree canopy (25-60 leaves and 10 current-year shoots per branch) for each focal tree species. The number of leaves sampled from each focal tree and the number of plots within each tree species richness levels are enumerated in Table S8 in van der Plas et al. (2016a).\u00a0 Visual assessments for fungal pathogen damages were conducted on fresh leaves within one day of sampling. Leaves and shoots were assessed for four classes of fungal damages: oak powdery mildew and leaf spots for the broadleaved tree species, and rust and needle cast for the conifer species. The number of leaves or shoots with the respective damages per tree was recorded, as well as the number of leaves and shoots free from fungal pathogen damage, i.e. healthy foliage. To obtain a value of healthy foliage at the plot level, the sum of all healthy foliage for all trees within the plot was calculated and this was divided by the total number of foliage replicates to acquire a plot-level proportion of healthy foliage. All assessments were conducted by one person to avoid observer bias. For details on the sampling effort, we refer to Nguyen et al.(2016). e.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree growth recovery: Ratio between post-drought growth and growth during the respective drought period (tree_growth_recovery) Following Lloret et al. (Lloret et al., 2011), growth recovery was defined as the ability to recover growth rates (see tree productivity section) after a decline in growth experienced during the low-growth period (see growth resistance section). It corresponds to the ratio between the average post-drought growth in the five years after a drought year and the growth during the respective low-growth year. Values less than 1 indicate a decline in growth after the drought year, while values greater than one indicate (partial) recovery. f.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree growth resilience: Ratio between growth after and before the drought period (tree_growth_resilience) Following Lloret et al. (Lloret et al., 2011), growth resilience was defined as the capacity of the forest stand to return to pre-drought growth (see tree productivity section) levels after a drought and is estimated as the ratio between average growth in the five years after and before the low-growth period (see growth resistance section). g.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree growth resistance: Ratio of tree growth during a drought period and growth during the previous five-year high-growth period (tree_growth_resistance) Following Lloret et al. (Lloret et al., 2011), growth resistance was quantified by comparing tree growth in a low-growth year to the mean growth in the preceding five years. The year with the lowest growth across the regions was 2003, with the exception of Germany and Spain, where the lowest growth was in 1998 and 2005, respectively. 1998 and 2003 were known as drought years across Europe, with the exception of Spain where 2005 was even drier. Growth resistance was defined as the reversal of the reduction in growth (methodology described in the tree productivity section) during the drought: as the ratio of growth during the low-growth year and the growth during the previous five-year high-growth period. The larger the value, the greater the resistance of tree growth to drought. h.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tree growth stability: Mean annual tree growth divided by standard deviation in annual tree growth between 1992 and 2011 (tree_growth_stability) Using the annual aboveground wood production (AWP, see tree productivity section above), for each plot the growth stability was calculated as: mean(AWP) / <em>sd(AWP)</em> where mean(AWP) is the temporal mean AWP and <em>sd(AWP)</em> is the standard deviation in AWP between 1992 and 2011. See Jucker <em>et al.</em> (2014) for more details. 6 6.\u00a0Timber quality a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stem quality: Mean plot silvicultural quality assessment based on stem characteristics (timber_quality) For timber quality measurements, in each plot, dendrometric data and externally visible stem characteristics were recorded. The silvicultural quality assessment was based on stem characteristics that can be measured and evaluated non-destructively and rapidly along with a measurement of potentially influencing factors at the tree- and stand-level. For each tree within a plot, total height, height of the crown base, height of the lowest dead branch (&gt; 1 cm diameter), and type of fork (or steeply angled branch) were measured. In addition, the presence of the following stem quality parameters was recorded: curving, stem lean, epicormic branching, coppicing, pathogenic, and other defects. Due to the multiple factors constituting stem quality and wood quality, a four-class stem quality grading scheme was used to aggregate all stem quality parameters collected for each tree into an appropriate stem quality score, allowing for the analysis of a single response variable across all regions, species diversity levels and compositions; see Table 1 in Benneter et al (2018), with quality class D=1 being the lowest, and class A=4 being the highest quality class. The assessment of stem quality parameters was limited to the butt log of the tree, which represented the lowest 5 meters of the stem for broadleaved tree species and a maximum of 10 meters from the stem base for conifers. Multiples of the 5-meter section were only considered if the second log showed at least quality class C=2, but only if the green crown base was above the section considered. It has been estimated that for most commercial species in Europe, these butt logs comprise up to 50-70 % (softwood) and 80-95 % (hardwood) of the total commercial tree value. Plot-level timber quality was then calculated as the average timber quality of all the individual trees. For further details, see Benneter et al. (2018). We further quantified the diversity of several forest-associated taxonomic groups (bats, birds, spiders, insects, earthworms, fungal pathogens, soil microbes, understorey plants, and their multi-diversity and multi-abundance/-activity indices) and many aspects of habitat quality (tree functional and structural diversity), in each plot; the respective data can be found here: Allan, E. et al. (2019). Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest\u2010associated taxa in Europe [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sf7m0cg22. See also: Ampoorter, E. et al. 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Nous avons men\u00e9 une exp\u00e9rience sur le terrain en utilisant des sacs de liti\u00e8re avec trois tailles de maille diff\u00e9rentes qui ont permis l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la microfaune (0,1 mm), \u00e0 la micro et m\u00e9sofaune (2 mm) et \u00e0 la faune totale du sol (5 mm) pour \u00e9valuer la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re foliaire de deux esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 des champignons mycorhiziens arbusculaires (MA) et de trois esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 des champignons ectomycorhiziens (ECM) dans six sites de jardins communs danois. Nous avons \u00e9galement \u00e9valu\u00e9 comment les diff\u00e9rences dans la qualit\u00e9 initiale de la liti\u00e8re, les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol et la composition de la communaut\u00e9 microbienne parmi les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres peuvent affecter la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re ainsi que les effets de la faune du sol sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re. Les r\u00e9sultats ont montr\u00e9 que (1) la perte de masse de la liti\u00e8re variait consid\u00e9rablement selon la taille des mailles et les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, avec des taux de d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re (k) allant de 0,273 \u00e0 3,482\u00a0; (2) l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la m\u00e9sofaune augmentait significativement la liti\u00e8re k de 0,658 pour la MA et de 0,396 pour les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres ECM sans acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la faune du sol, respectivement de 255 et 92%, tandis que l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la fois \u00e0 la m\u00e9so- et \u00e0 la macrofaune augmentait k de 265 et 108% pour les arbres AM et ECM, respectivement\u00a0; (3) l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, l'association mycorhizienne, la qualit\u00e9 initiale de la liti\u00e8re, les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol, la composition des communaut\u00e9s microbiennes et la biomasse de la faune du sol ambiant \u00e9taient tous des facteurs influen\u00e7ant significativement la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re, mais l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres \u00e9tait le facteur dominant ind\u00e9pendamment de la taille des mailles des sacs de liti\u00e8re\u00a0; et (4) les effets de la m\u00e9sofaune sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re \u00e9taient principalement contr\u00f4l\u00e9s par l'identit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres, la concentration initiale en Mg de la liti\u00e8re et le rapport lignine\u00a0:N, tandis que le petit impact suppl\u00e9mentaire de l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la macrofaune n'\u00e9tait pas bien expliqu\u00e9 par aucun des facteurs \u00e9valu\u00e9s. Dans l'ensemble, nos r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres affectent la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re via une stimulation diff\u00e9rente du fonctionnement de la faune du sol, et que les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la MA et \u00e0 la mec diff\u00e8rent dans le degr\u00e9 auquel la faune du sol stimule la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re. Cependant, le mod\u00e8le n'\u00e9tait pas enti\u00e8rement coh\u00e9rent car les taux de d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re pour la chaux associ\u00e9e \u00e0 la mec \u00e9taient stimul\u00e9s dans la m\u00eame mesure que les taux pour les esp\u00e8ces d'arbres associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la MA, le fr\u00eane et l'\u00e9rable. Dans l'ensemble, nos r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que les communaut\u00e9s de m\u00e9so- et de macrofaune du sol peuvent am\u00e9liorer les effets des esp\u00e8ces d'arbres sur la d\u00e9composition de la liti\u00e8re ainsi que l'incorporation de la liti\u00e8re C dans le sol min\u00e9ral.", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Litter quality", "Microfauna", "Plant Science", "Soil mesofauna", "01 natural sciences", "Plant litter", "Soil fauna", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Soil biology", "Microbial community", "Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions", "Litter", "Soil water", "Wood Decomposition", "Saproxylic Insect Ecology and Forest Management", "Plant Interactions", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Ecology", "Soil property", "Life Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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However, not all wild MT are edible. Fast, cheap, and reliable methods that distinguish wild MT species (including the deadly ones) can contribute to valuing these important forest resources. Here, we tested if wild MT species, and their edibility, could be distinguished based on their aroma profiles (i.e., smellprints). For that, we combined the use of the electronic nose with classification models (linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA)) to distinguish between 14 wild MT species (including edible and non-edible species) collected in Portugal. The 14 wild MT species could be accurately distinguished using LDA (93% accuracy), while the edible and non-edible species could be accurately distinguished using both LDA and PLS-DA (97% and 99% accuracy, respectively). Keeping in mind that our methodological design\u2019s feasibility was verified using a small sample, the data show the potential of the combined use of the electronic nose with discriminant analysis to distinguish wild MT species and their edibility based on their aromatic profile. Although a larger dataset will be necessary to develop a quick and reliable identification method, it shows potential to be as accurate as the identification performed by mycologists and molecular biology, yet requiring less technical training, and the analyses are cheaper and faster.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Agriculture and Food Sciences", "electronic nose", "electronic nose; forest resources; identification method; volatile profile; wild mushrooms and truffles", "identification method", "IDENTIFICATION", "Science", "Q", "FUNGI", "volatile profile", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "NUTRITIONAL-VALUE", "15. 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We surveyed 236 dryland ecosystems from six continents to evaluate the relative importance of aridity and mean annual temperature, and of other abiotic (e.g., texture) and biotic (e.g., plant cover) variables as drivers of SVM, calculated as the averaged coefficient of variation for multiple soil variables linked to nutrient stocks and cycling. We found that increases in temperature and aridity were globally correlated to increases in SVM. Some of these climatic effects on SVM were direct, but others were indirectly driven through reductions in the number of vegetation patches and increases in soil sand content. The predictive capacity of our structural equation\uffc2\uffa0modelling was clearly higher for the spatial variability of N\uffe2\uff80\uff90 than for C\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and P\uffe2\uff80\uff90related soil variables. In the case of N cycling, the effects of temperature and aridity were both direct and indirect via changes in soil properties. For C and P, the effect of climate was mainly indirect via changes in plant attributes. These results suggest that future changes in climate may decouple the spatial availability of these elements for plants and microbes in dryland soils. Our findings significantly advance our understanding of the patterns and mechanisms driving SVM in drylands across the globe, which is critical for predicting changes in ecosystem functioning in response to climate change.</p", "keywords": ["Abiotic component", "Atmospheric sciences", "Physical geography", "Arid", "Climate Change", "Soil Science", "Spatial variability", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Soil texture", "Aridity index", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Soil water", "FOS: Mathematics", "Pathology", "Climate change", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Soil science", "2. 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It is still poorly understood how fast interlinked ecosystem processes respond to altered environmental conditions, if these responses occur gradually or suddenly when thresholds are exceeded, and if the patterns of the responses will reach a stable state. We conducted an irrigation experiment in the Pfynwald, Switzerland from 2003\uffe2\uff80\uff932018. A naturally dry Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forest was irrigated with amounts that doubled natural precipitation, thus releasing the forest stand from water limitation. The aim of this study was to provide a quantitative understanding on how different traits and functions of individual trees and the whole ecosystem responded to increased water availability, and how the patterns and magnitudes of these responses developed over time. We found that the response magnitude, the temporal trajectory of responses, and the length of initial lag period prior to significant response largely varied across traits. We detected rapid and stronger responses from aboveground tree traits (e.g., tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90ring width, needle length, and crown transparency) compared to belowground tree traits (e.g., fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90root biomass). The altered aboveground traits during the initial years of irrigation increased the water demand and trees adjusted by increasing root biomass during the later years of irrigation, resulting in an increased survival rate of Scots pine trees in irrigated plots. The irrigation also stimulated ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90level foliar decomposition rate, fungal fruit body biomass, and regeneration abundances of broadleaved tree species. However, irrigation did not promote the regeneration of Scots pine trees, which are reported to be vulnerable to extreme droughts. Our results provide extensive evidence that tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90level responses were pervasive across a number of traits on long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term temporal scales. However, after reaching a peak, the magnitude of these responses either decreased or reached a new stable state, providing important insights into how resource alterations could change the system functioning and its boundary conditions.</p", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Atmospheric Science", "Ecosystem Resilience", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Ecosystem properties", "Climate change", "functional traits", "Irrigation", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "Climate change; Ecosystem properties; Ecosystem resilience; functional traits; long-term irrigation; Scots pine", "Global and Planetary Change", "Tree Line Shifts", "Ecology", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "Causes and Impacts of Climate Change Over Millennia", "Botany", "15. Life on land", "Pinus", "Agronomy", "6. 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