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Light Availability, Soil Phosphorus And Different Nitrogen Forms Negatively Affect The Functional Diversity Of Subtropical Forests, Taotao Han, Hai Ren, Dafeng Hui, Jun Wang, Hongfang Lu, Zhanfeng Liu
Light Availability, Soil Phosphorus And Different Nitrogen Forms Negatively Affect The Functional Diversity Of Subtropical Forests, Taotao Han, Hai Ren, Dafeng Hui, Jun Wang, Hongfang Lu, Zhanfeng Liu
Biology Faculty Research
Understanding the relationship between functional diversity (FD) and species diversity changes and the effects of environmental factors on FD during succession is useful to improve forest management, conservation and restoration strategies. In this study, we measured 9 environmental factors related to light availability, soil water content and nutrients, and 19 leaf functional traits related to leaf light and nutrient utilization, growth and defense, water-use efficiency, and leaf respiration strategies in the dominant species during subtropical forest succession in southern China. Logarithmic function analysis and linear mixed model were used to explore the relationships between FD and species diversity and between …