Lydia Hönig

TL;DR: The first results from a large biodiversity experiment in a subtropical forest in China suggest strong positive effects of tree diversity on forest productivity and carbon accumulation, and encourage multispecies afforestation strategies to restore biodiversity and mitigate climate change.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that currently available methods provide a sophisticated toolbox to improve a synergistic understanding of forest multifunctionality, however, these methods require further adjustment to the specific requirements of structurally complex and long‐lived forest ecosystems.

TL;DR: Foliar fungi of silver birch in an experimental Finnish forest were investigated across a gradient of tree species richness using molecular high-throughput sequencing and visual macroscopic assessment to determine tree diversity effects on the foliar fungal community.

TL;DR: Results suggest that herbivory and pathogens have additive but contrasting effects on tree growth, and shows how species richness and species characteristics can modify tree growth responses to leaf damage under real‐world conditions.

TL;DR: The results show that the effects of litter functional diversity on decomposition are contingent upon the macro-detritivore community and composition, and conclude that the temporal dynamics of litter trait diversity effects and their interaction with detritivor diversity are key to advancing the understanding of litter mass loss in nature.