Sabine Both
A5069548706- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant and animal studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Forest Ecology and Conservation
- Education, Psychology, and Social Research
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Water and Land Management
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
University of Aberdeen
2015-2025
University of New England
2018-2025
University of New England
2022
Poultry CRC
2022
Universiti of Malaysia Sabah
2020
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2010-2018
Luther University
2012
Tree diversity improves forest productivity Experimental studies in grasslands have shown that the loss of species has negative consequences for ecosystem functioning. Is same true forests? Huang et al. report first results from a large biodiversity experiment subtropical China. The study combines many replicates, realistic tree densities, and plot sizes with wide range richness levels. After 8 years experiment, findings suggest strong positive effects on carbon accumulation. Thus, changing...
Summary Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning ( BEF ) experiments address ecosystem‐level consequences of species loss by comparing communities high richness with from which have been gradually eliminated. originally started microcosms in the laboratory and grassland ecosystems. A new frontier experimental research is manipulating tree diversity forest ecosystems, compelling researchers to think big comprehensively. We present discuss some major issues be considered design trees illustrate...
Local-scale microclimatic conditions in forest understoreys play a key role shaping the composition, diversity and function of these ecosystems. Consequently, understanding what drives variation microclimate is critical to forecasting ecosystem responses global change, particularly tropics where many species already operate close their thermal limits rapid land-use transformation profoundly altering local environments. Yet our ability characterize at ecologically meaningful scales remains...
Subtropical broad-leaved forests in southeastern China support a high diversity of woody plants. Using comparative study design with 30 × m plots (n = 27) from five successional stages (<20, <40, <60, <80, and ≥80 yr), we investigated how the gradient species composition reflects underlying processes community assembly. In particular, tested whether richness adult trees shrubs decreased or increased assessed to which degree this pattern was caused by negative density dependence continuous...
Summary Environmental selection and dispersal limitation are two of the primary processes structuring biotic communities in ecosystems, but little is known about these shaping soil microbial during secondary forest succession. We examined ectomycorrhizal ( EM ) fungi young, intermediate old forests a C hinese subtropical ecosystem, using 454 pyrosequencing. The fungal community consisted 393 operational taxonomic units OTU s), belonging to 21 lineages, which three lineages 11 s showed...
Abstract Tropical forests play a major role in the carbon cycle of terrestrial biosphere. Recent field studies have provided detailed descriptions mature tropical forests, but logged or secondary received much less attention. Here, we report first measures total net primary productivity ( NPP ) and its allocation along disturbance gradient from old‐growth to moderately heavily Malaysian Borneo. We measured main components (woody, fine root canopy n = 6) 5) 1 ha forest plots. Overall, did not...
Summary Plant functional traits regulate ecosystem functions but little is known about how co‐occurring gradients of land use and edaphic conditions influence their expression. We test logging disturbance soil properties relate to community‐weighted mean in logged old‐growth tropical forests Borneo. studied 32 physical, chemical physiological from 284 tree species eight 1 ha plots measured long‐term nutrient supplies plant‐available nutrients. Logged had greater values for that drive carbon...
Logged and structurally degraded tropical forests are fast becoming one of the most prevalent land-use types throughout tropics routinely assumed to be a net carbon sink because they experience rapid rates tree regrowth. Yet this assumption is based on forest biomass inventories that record stock recovery but fail account for simultaneous losses from soil necromass. Here, we used plots an eddy covariance tower quantify partition ecosystem CO 2 exchange in Malaysian Borneo, region hot spot...
Predatory arthropods can exert strong top-down control on ecosystem functions. However, despite extensive theory and experimental manipulations of predator diversity, our knowledge about relationships between plant diversity—and thus information the relevance findings—for species-rich, natural ecosystems is limited. We studied activity abundance species richness epigeic spiders in a highly diverse forest subtropical China across 27 stands which formed gradient tree diversity 25–69 per plot....
Fungal diversity and community composition are mainly related to soil vegetation factors. However, the relative contribution of different drivers remains largely unexplored, especially in subtropical forest ecosystems. We studied fungal soils sampled from 12 comparative study plots representing three age classes (Young: 10–40 yrs; Medium: 40–80 Old: ≥80 yrs) Gutianshan National Nature Reserve South-eastern China. Soil communities were assessed employing ITS rDNA pyrotag sequencing. Members...
Abstract Soil properties and terrain attributes are of great interest to explain model plant productivity community assembly (hereafter P&CA). Many studies only sample surface soils, may therefore miss important variation deeper soil levels. We aimed identify a critical depth in which the relationships between P&CA were strongest due an ideal interplay among attributes. On 27 plots subtropical Chinese forest varying tree herb layer species richness productivity, 29 six columns four...
Experiments under controlled conditions have established that ecosystem functioning is generally positively related to levels of biodiversity, but it unclear how widespread these effects are in real-world settings and whether they can be harnessed for restoration. We used remote-sensing data from the first decade a long-term, field-scale tropical restoration experiment initiated 2002 test diversity planted trees affected recovery 500-ha area selectively logged forest measured using multiple...
Abstract Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning ( BEF ) research has extended its scope from communities that are short‐lived or reshape their structure annually to structurally complex forest ecosystems. The establishment of tree diversity experiments poses specific methodological challenges for assessing the multiple functions provided by In particular, inconsistencies and nonstandardized protocols impede analysis multifunctionality within, comparability across increasing number experiments....
Microclimate within forests influences ecosystem fluxes and demographic rates. Anthropogenic disturbances such as selective logging can affect within-forest microclimate through effects on forest structure, leading to indirect beyond the immediate impact of logging. However, scope predictability these remains poorly understood. Here we use a thermal proxy (sensitive radiative, convective, conductive heat fluxes) measured at floor in three 1-ha plots spanning intensity gradient Malaysian...
The impacts of degradation and deforestation on tropical forests are poorly understood, particularly at landscape scales. We present an extensive ecosystem analysis the logging conversion forest to oil palm from a large-scale study in Borneo, synthesizing responses 82 variables categorized into four ecological levels spanning broad suite properties: (i) structure environment, (ii) species traits, (iii) biodiversity, (iv) functions. Responses were highly heterogeneous often complex nonlinear....
Tropical forest canopies are the biosphere's most concentrated atmospheric interface for carbon, water and energy1,2. However, in Earth System Models, diverse heterogeneous tropical biome is represented as a largely uniform ecosystem with either singular or small number of fixed canopy ecophysiological properties3. This situation arises, part, from lack understanding about how why functional properties vary geographically4. Here, by combining field-collected data more than 1,800 vegetation...
Question: Knowledge of the interaction between understorey herb and overstorey tree layer diversity is mostly restricted to temperate forests. How do environmental variables affect attributes in subtropical forests these relationships change course succession? Do abundance woody saplings within shift during Location: Subtropical broad-leaved southeast China (29°8′18″-29°17′29″N, 118°2′14″118°11′12″E). Methods: A full inventory including all plants below 1-m height was done 27 plots (10 × 10...
Abstract Subtropical and tropical forests are biodiversity hotspots, untangling the spatial scaling of their diversity is fundamental for understanding global species richness conserving essential to human well-being. However, scale-dependent distributions among coexisting taxa remain poorly understood heterogeneous environments in biodiverse regions. We show that relations 43 taxa—including plants, arthropods microorganisms—in a mountainous subtropical forest highly nonlinear across scales....
Abstract Logging, pervasive across the lowland tropics, affects millions of hectares forest, yet its influence on nutrient cycling remains poorly understood. One hypothesis is that logging influences phosphorus (P) cycling, because this scarce removed in extracted timber and eroded soil, leading to shifts ecosystem functioning community composition. However, testing challenging P varies within landscapes as a function geology, topography climate. Superimposed upon these trends are...
Industrial logging and agricultural expansion are driving rapid transformations of tropical ecosystems, modifying patterns in above – ground plant below microbial communities. However, the extent to which these changes biodiversity drive modifications ecosystem process rates such as leaf litter decomposition is poorly understood. To determine relative effects chemical quality shifts decomposers on rates, we performed a controlled, reciprocal transplant, experiment across land - use...
Abstract Tropical montane forests comprise heterogeneous environments along natural gradients of topography and elevation. Human‐induced edge effects further increase the environmental heterogeneity in these forests. The simultaneous human‐induced on functional diversity plant leaf traits are poorly understood. In a tropical forest Bolivia, we studied associated with elevation (from 1900 m to 2500 asl), (ridge gorge), (forest vs. interior), their relationship resource‐use strategies. First,...