Larger forest patches have greater per-area productivity

2026/05/15 by Yibiao Zou, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Thomas Lauber +5 · 1 voice
Environmental Science · #Forest Management and Policy #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Remote Sensing in Agriculture

paper · doi:10.1038/s41559-026-03075-5

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• Nitrogen Saturation in Northern Forest Ecosystems
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• An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm
• Global Carbon Budget 2020
• Drivers of forest productivity in two regions of the United States: Relative impacts of management and environmental variables
• Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes
• A unifying framework for understanding how edge effects reshape the structure, composition and function of forests
• Fragmentation increased in over half of global forests from 2000 to 2020
• Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding

Discussions

• #MondayCanopyReads from the BES Forest Ecology Group Larger forest patches have greater per-area productivity Zou et al., 2026 | Nature Ecology & Evolution Read the full article here: https://doi.org/ [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]