Structural characteristics mediate forest mitigation potential against climate change and biodiversity loss.

However, notwithstanding the fact that tree species richness values in our study covered the whole range of tree species richness in temperate European forests (i.e., ranged from one in monocultures to highly mixed forests with 14 tree species at the northern Swabian Alb in Germany), we found this relation to be only marginally significant, raising uncertainties on the overstory/understory link in terms of vascular plant species richness.

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