Maintenance of Forest Biodiversity

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: aboveground biomass; acoustic indices; altitude; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; beta diversity; biodiversity monitoring; biogeography; Biology, life sciences; biomass allocation; birds; canonical correlation analysis; community assembly; competitive exclusion; deciduous broad-leaved forests; dynamic changes; Ecological science, the Biosphere; environmental variables; forest management; functional richness; functional trait; gap size; Godron stability; habitat filtering; Hainan island; influence; interspecific association; interspecific competition; intra- and interspecific interactions; intraspecific competition; Life sciences: general issues; litter decomposition; Mathematics and Science; microenvironment; mortality process; multi-site generalized dissimilarity modeling; natural mixed forests; natural regeneration; net relatedness index; niche theory; nonstructural carbohydrates; novel approach; nutrient release; object-based image analysis; phylogenetic signal; plant diversity; PLFA analysis; precipitation; recruitment process; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; regression dominant species; replacement; Research and information: general; richness; root system characteristics; root–soil–microbial interactions; seedling age; seedling bank; soil available phosphorus; soil chemical elements; soil chemical property; soil depth layer; soil microbe; soil nutrients; soil pH; soil water content; soundscape ecology; spatial distribution; spatial structure parameters; species diversity; spectrograms; stand structural characteristic; stand structure; subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest; temperature; the Sankey diagram; the southern Taihang Mountains; tropical monsoonal forest; understory vegetation; urban forests; β-diversity
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-8443-0
• ISBN: 3036584420; 3036584439; 9783036584423; 9783036584430

Among terrestrial ecosystems, forests play a dominant role in maintaining biodiversity and providing ecosystem functioning, such as nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem stability. Over the past several decades, however, global forests are facing unprecedented pressure from climate change and anthropogenic disturbances, resulting in a high rate of biodiversity loss due to deforestation, fragmentation, and degradation. Determining how to maintain biodiversity is extremely urgent if we want to achieve the aims of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The complex structure, species interaction, heterogenic environment, and regional species pool all affect the spatial and temporal patterns of forest species, but it is still unclear how these effects maintain long-term forest biodiversity as forests undergo rapid variations in habitat features under global change. This reprint includes sixteen published articles related to the dynamics of forest spatial structure, community assembly, forest recovery patterns after disturbance, spatial distribution of species diversity, effects of abiotic and biotic variables on understory species diversity, and above- and below-ground biotic interactions. These studies cover different forest types across varied spatial and temporal scales, as well as different biological groups (plants, birds and microbes). We acknowledge all authors who contributed to this reprint "Maintenance of Forest Biodiversity" of Forests. We hope this reprint can improve our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of forest biodiversity maintenance.