Seid Muhie Dawud

TL;DR: Higher diversity enhances resistance to drought events only in drought-prone environments, and managing forest ecosystems for high tree species diversity does not necessarily assure improved adaptability to the more severe and frequent drought events predicted for the future.

TL;DR: There is a tendency for stronger B-EF relations in drier climates as well as in areas with longer growing seasons and more functionally diverse tree species, suggesting that as water limitation increases under climate change, biodiversity may become even more important to support high levels of functioning in European forests.

TL;DR: Simulations demonstrate that jack-of-all-trades effects occur whenever species effects on different functions are not perfectly correlated, meaning they may contribute to diversity–multifunctionality relationships in many of the world's ecosystems.

TL;DR: This study used a comprehensive pan-European dataset, including 16 ecosystem functions measured in 209 forest plots across six European countries, and performed simulations to investigate how local plot-scale richness of tree species and their turnover between plots are related to landscape-scale multifunctionality.

TL;DR: The new European research platform permits the most comprehensive assessment of tree species diversity effects on forest ecosystem functioning to date since it offers a common set of research plots to groups of researchers from very different disciplines and uses the same methodological approach in contrasting forest types along an extensive environmental gradient.