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Impacts of environment and forest type on the relationship between stand structure diversity and productivity in natural mixed forests

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  • Jianwu Wang
  • Sen Xu
  • Binglou Xie
  • Chenghao Zhu
  • Xiaonan Wu
  • Kang Ji
  • Qun Du

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Forest productivity reflects forest growth quality and forms the basis for achieving forest service functions. The relationships between forest productivity and stand structure has been extensively studied, but it is still unclear whether environmental factors affect the relationship and how their relationships vary under the influence of stand type and environmental factors. A fixed monitoring dataset from 972 plots of natural mixed forests (including coniferous, broad-leaved, and coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests) in Zhejiang Province was used. We analyzed the relationship between stand structure diversity (composition diversity and size differentiation diversity) and productivity in the different forest types and their influencing factors. Species richness, coefficient of the diameter at breast height (DBH) variation, and the DBH Shannon‒Wiener index were significantly positively correlated with productivity (P

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  • Jianwu Wang & Sen Xu & Binglou Xie & Chenghao Zhu & Xiaonan Wu & Kang Ji & Qun Du, 2025. "Impacts of environment and forest type on the relationship between stand structure diversity and productivity in natural mixed forests," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(8), pages 1-18, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0329730
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0329730
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