Andy Hector

TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that the relative strength of overyielding remained constant during an exceptional natural environmental perturbation, supporting previous findings of a positive relationship between diversity and productivity and between Diversity and the temporal stability of production, but of no effect of diversity on the resistance to perturbations.

TL;DR: Findings from TreeDivNet indicate that tree diversity experiments are extending BEF research across systems and scales, complementing previous BEF work in grasslands by providing opportunities to use remote sensing and spectral approaches to study BEF dynamics, integrate belowground and aboveground approaches, and trace the consequences of tree physiology for ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: The range of mechanisms by which plant diversity could influence net ecosystem productivity is examined, incorporating processes involved with carbon uptake, loss, loss (autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration), and residence time within the system (decomposition rate).

TL;DR: This paper examined the abundance of native and exotic plant species at 64 grasslands in 13 countries, and at a subset of the sites they experimentally tested native and exotics responses to two fundamental drivers of invasion, mineral nutrient supplies and vertebrate herbivory.

TL;DR: It is shown that while legume species play an important role in the BIODEPTH results, patterns are not generally consistent with the multispecies sampling effect for legumes proposed by Huston & McBride (2002) as suggested in Thompson et al. (2005).