The role of plant diversity and facilitation during tropical dry forest restoration

• Published in: The Journal of ecology Vol. 111; no. 6; pp. 1231 - 1241
• Main Authors: Fagundes, Marina V., Mazzochini, Guilherme G., Ganade, Gislene
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2023
• Subjects: Additives; Biodiversity; Biomass; biomass production; Complementarity; Design of experiments; Dispersion; Dry forests; Ecological function; Ecosystem restoration; Ecosystems; Environmental restoration; Experimental design; facilitation; forest restoration; Geographical distribution; Indigenous species; leaf biomass production; Leaves; Mixtures; Monoculture; Plant communities; Plant diversity; Plant species; Plants; Plants (botany); restoration; Seedlings; Species diversity; trees; tropical dry forests; Tropical forests; water‐limited environments

Restoration programmes that promote the functioning of restored ecosystems are in urgent demand. Although several biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiments have demonstrated the importance of functional complementarity in enhancing plant community performance, no biodiversity experime...