Light, temperature and understorey cover predominantly affect early life stages of tree seedlings in a multifactorial mesocosm experiment Ghent University
Increasing light availability by opening up the forest canopy is a key tool for forest managers to stimulate natural regeneration of trees. Tree seedlings are also impacted by a complex set of global change drivers and understorey vegetation. Here, we investigated if (altered) environmental resources and conditions due to global change, and understorey vegetation modulate tree seedling responses, i.e. emergence, survival, growth and biomass ...