05359nam 2201225z- 450 991105321930332120230911(CKB)5690000000228560(oapen)doab113929(EXLCZ)99569000000022856020230920c2023uuuu -u- -engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaintenance of Forest BiodiversityMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20231 online resource (258 p.)3-0365-8443-9 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.Biology, life sciencesbicsscEcological science, the BiospherebicsscResearch & information: generalbicsscaboveground biomassacoustic indicesaltitudearbuscular mycorrhizal fungibeta diversitybiodiversity monitoringbiogeographybiomass allocationbirdscanonical correlation analysiscommunity assemblycompetitive exclusiondeciduous broad-leaved forestsdynamic changesenvironmental variablesforest managementfunctional richnessfunctional traitgap sizeGodron stabilityhabitat filteringHainan islandinfluenceinterspecific associationinterspecific competitionintra- and interspecific interactionsintraspecific competitionlitter decompositionmicroenvironmentmortality processmulti-site generalized dissimilarity modelingnatural mixed forestsnatural regenerationnet relatedness indexniche theorynonstructural carbohydratesnovel approachnutrient releaseobject-based image analysisphylogenetic signalplant diversityPLFA analysisprecipitationrecruitment processregression dominant speciesreplacementrichnessroot system characteristicsroot-soil-microbial interactionsseedling ageseedling banksoil available phosphorussoil chemical elementssoil chemical propertysoil depth layersoil microbesoil nutrientssoil pHsoil water contentsoundscape ecologyspatial distributionspatial structure parametersspecies diversityspectrogramsstand structural characteristicstand structuresubtropical evergreen broadleaved foresttemperaturethe Sankey diagramthe southern Taihang Mountainstropical monsoonal forestunderstory vegetationurban forestsβ-diversityBiology, life sciencesEcological science, the BiosphereResearch & information: generalBOOK9911053219303321Maintenance of Forest Biodiversity4525342UNINA