Claim · model-written summary
Tree species mixing increased the α-diversity of each vegetation layer.
- Taxon
- Cunninghamia lanceolata
Cunninghamia lanceolatat0 - Treatment
- TSM managemente0
- Outcome
- α-diversity of each vegetation layere0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“TSM management improved stand features and reduced competition intensity among trees, which increased α-diversity of each vegetation layer”
t0“Cunninghamia lanceolata”
Title
Yanfeng Bai; Mengyu Jiang; Yawen Zhao; et al. Forest Ecosystems 2026. doi:10.1016/j.fecs.2026.100426
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Tree species mixing management significantly enhanced the overall functional efficiency of the ecosystem in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations.
- Intervention effect Tree species mixing improved stand features.
- Intervention effect Tree species mixing reduced competition intensity among trees.
- Intervention effect Tree species mixing decreased the β-diversity of each vegetation layer.
- Intervention effect Tree species mixing increased litter layer thickness and soil available phosphorus content, with the magnitude varying across management stages.
- Observation Soil bacterial α-diversity (Chao1) was reduced by 7.3%.
- Observation Soil bacterial α-diversity (Shannon) was reduced by 2.7%.
- Observation The soil core microbial community showed an enrichment of oligotrophic bacteria (Acidibacter, +29.1%).
- Observation The soil core microbial community showed an increase in core fungal taxa.
- Mechanism The authors attribute to the microbial shift enhanced decomposition of organic matter (litter thickness +27.8%).
- Mechanism The authors attribute to the microbial shift enhanced transformation of nutrients (available nitrogen +32.6%).
- Mechanism Structural equation modeling indicated that tree species mixing mainly drives soil carbon accumulation via the tree diversity-core bacterial community-microbial biomass pathway.