Comment on "Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment"
Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 14:41
in Earth & Climate
Huang et al. (Reports, 5 October 2018, p. 80) report significant increases in forest productivity from monocultures to multispecies mixtures in subtropical China. However, their estimated productivity decrease due to a 10% tree species loss seems high. We propose that including species richness distribution of the study forests would provide more meaningful estimates of forest-scale responses.