BEF China Main Experiment - China

The joint Chinese-German-Swiss research project “BEF-China” (FOR 891) integrates more than 15 German, Swiss, and Chinese universities and institutes into 14 collaborative subprojects. In 2009 and 2010, BEF-China established a large forest biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) experiment at the subtropical forest site Xingangshan in Jiangxi Province, China. It is the first BEF forest experiment in the highly species-rich subtropics. <!--break--> The BEF-China Main Experiment was established at two sites (A and B), covering 50 ha. In total, there are 566 plots of 400 trees each, ranging in diversity from monocultures to 24-species mixtures. The experiment used 42 native tree species and 10 shrub species, combined into ...