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      Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

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          Species richness promotes forest stability via enhanced asynchrony, which is positively related to drought-tolerance diversity.

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          Extreme climatic events threaten forests and their climate mitigation potential globally. Understanding the drivers promoting ecosystem stability is therefore considered crucial for mitigating adverse climate change effects on forests. Here, we use structural equation models to explain how tree species richness, asynchronous species dynamics, species-level population stability, and drought-tolerance traits relate to the stability of forest productivity along an experimentally manipulated species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species. Tree species richness improved community stability by increasing asynchrony. That is, at higher species richness, interannual variation in productivity among tree species buffered the community against stress-related productivity declines. This effect was positively related to variation in stomatal control and resistance-acquisition strategies among species, but not to the community-weighted means of these trait syndromes. The identified mechanisms by which tree species richness stabilizes forest productivity emphasize the importance of diverse, mixed-species forests to adapt to climate change.

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                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing - review & editing
                Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing - review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing - review & editing
                Role: Investigation
                Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing - review & editing
                Role: Validation
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing - review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: VisualizationRole: Writing - review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing - review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: Writing - review & editing
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                Journal
                Sci Adv
                Sci Adv
                sciadv
                advances
                Science Advances
                American Association for the Advancement of Science
                2375-2548
                December 2021
                17 December 2021
                : 7
                : 51
                : eabk1643
                Affiliations
                [1 ]German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
                [2 ]Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
                [3 ]State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
                [4 ]Institute of General Ecology and Environmental Protection, Technische Universität Dresden, Tharandt, Germany.
                [5 ]Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
                [6 ]Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
                [7 ]Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany.
                [8 ]Department of Geography, Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
                [9 ]Chair of Silviculture, Institute of Forest Sciences, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
                [10 ]Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.
                [11 ]Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Jingdezhen University, Jiangxi, China.
                [12 ]Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
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                These authors contributed equally to this work as co–first authors.

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                Article
                abk1643
                10.1126/sciadv.abk1643
                8682986
                34919425
                7c360fd9-4786-4c18-a285-779a2c02ea42
                Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).

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                History
                : 25 June 2021
                : 01 November 2021
                Funding
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft;
                Award ID: DFG FOR 891
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft;
                Award ID: 319936945/GRK2324
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft;
                Award ID: DFG BR 1698/9-2
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002367, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
                Award ID: XDB31000000
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100020056, Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung Halle-Jena-Leipzig;
                Award ID: #34600900
                Funded by: National Key Research and Development Program of China;
                Award ID: 2017YFA0605103
                Funded by: URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zurich;
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