Christian Wirth

TL;DR: This work analysed demographic rates from seed to adult of 282 co-occurring tropical tree and shrub species, including measures of reproduction and accounting for ontogeny, finding a trade-off between recruitment and seedling performance vs. growth and survival of larger individuals corresponding to a 'stature-recruitment' axis.

TL;DR: The results show that the IAV of GPPsat is greatly reduced in older and more diverse forests, and is higher in younger forests with few dominant species, which would be beneficial in reducing the effect of climate variability on Earth's forest ecosystems.

TL;DR: There are specific limits to the extent to which traits per se can predict the long-term functional consequences of biodiversity change, so that data on additional drivers, such as interacting abiotic factors, may be required to improve predictions of ecosystem property levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared four chronosequences of fire-prone Siberian Scots pine forests and two different mass-based estimates of net ecosystem productivity (NEPC and NEPS) along four different time axes: decomposition of old coarse woody debris left from the previous generation after stand-replacing fire, and accumulation of new carbon in biomass, CWD and soil organic layer by the regenerating stand.

TL;DR: It is shown that key plant functional traits predict the climate ranges of North American trees and the underlying filter mechanisms that define “no-go areas” for specific trait expressions are discussed, which allow the definition and delineation of climatic ‘no- go areas’ for North American tree species based on key traits.