Welcome to the FunDivEurope Knowledge Transfer Platform
The platform supports communication and knowledge exchange among stakeholders, scientists, policy makers and the public regarding the understanding about the functional significance of biodiversity for the provision of forest ecosystem services in major European forest types. The aim is to understand and quantify how tree species diversity can be used to foster the provision of ecosystem services such as timber production, carbon sequestration and freshwater provisioning.
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Recent Publications
- Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests by S.Ratcliffe 6 months 3 weeks ago
- Climate- and successional-related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality by S.Ratcliffe 6 months 3 weeks ago
- Disentangling the effects of compositional and structural diversity on forest productivity by M.P.Da Silva 1 year 1 month ago
- Tree diversity affects chlorophyll a fluorescence and other leaf traits of tree species in a boreal forest by M.Pollastrini 1 year 1 month ago
- Tree species diversity affects decomposition through modified micro-environmental conditions across European forests by F.Joly 1 year 1 month ago
Most viewed Knowledge Elements
Top rated Knowledge Elements
- Role of millipede for litter decomposition by F.Joly
- Tree diversity: an ecological weapon against pest insects by B.Castagneyrol
- Physiological significance of forest tree defoliation: results from a survey in a mixed forest in Tuscany (central Italy) by M.Pollastrini
- Effects of biodiversity on the transmission of foliar fungal pathogens in the German tree diversity experiment BIOTREE by H.Bruelheide
- Timber quality vs. biodiversity - a contradiction? by J.Bauhus
Recent Member Questions
- what is the most productive type of material for reproduction in biomass production? asked by I.C.Dănilă 3 years 1 month ago
- Can tree diversity mediate the effect of droughts on forests? asked by M.A.Zavala 3 years 1 month ago
- Does tree diversity affect forest adaptation to climate change? asked by M.A.Zavala 3 years 1 month ago
- Do mixed forests allow to produce high value timber? asked by J.Bauhus 4 years 7 months ago
- Is it possible to introduce earthworm populations as part of a forest soil restoration strategy? asked by B.Muys 4 years 7 months ago
Recent Hypothesis
- The composition of the understorey shows a clear turnover over time due to tree canopy development. by E.Ampoorter 4 years 2 weeks ago
- The species-specific impact of trees on environmental conditions induces differences in understorey species richness and productivity by E.Ampoorter 4 years 2 weeks ago
- the understorey compositional dissimilarity between patches within a stand increases with increasing number of tree species in the overstorey, while the compositional dissimilarity between different stands decreases with higher tree species richness by E.Ampoorter 4 years 2 weeks ago
- a higher number of tree species in the overstorey is accompanied by a different composition of the understorey and positively influences understorey diversity by E.Ampoorter 4 years 2 weeks ago
- The variability in quality of tree stems increases with neighbourhood tree species diversity & stem quality of individual trees is dependent on specific traits of neighbouring species by J.Bauhus 4 years 7 months ago
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