Multi-year drought strengthens positive and negative functional diversity effects on tree growth response
Hernán Serrano‐León, Haben Blondeel, Paula Glenz, Johannes Steurer, Florian Schnabel, Lander Baeten, Joannès Guillemot, Nicolas K Martin-StPaul, Georgios Skiadaresis, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Damien Bonal, Matthieu Boone, Renaud Decarsin, Arsène Druel, Douglas L. Godbold, , Jürgen Bauhus
The paper examines how multi-year drought affects tree growth responses influenced by neighborhood diversity and functional traits, finding stronger and site-specific diversity effects during prolonged drought.
Global Change Biology · Sep 1, 2025Peer-reviewedEcology