Andy Hector

TL;DR: It is shown that species-rich communities maintained multiple functions at higher levels than depauperate ones, and the overall effect of biodiversity on multifunctionality grew stronger as more functions were considered.

TL;DR: It is found that an integrative model has substantially higher explanatory power than traditional bivariate analyses and several surprising findings that conflict with classical models are revealed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a multisite analysis of the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning within the European BIODEPTH network of plant-diversity manipulation experiments, showing that communities with a higher diversity of species and functional groups were more productive and utilized resources more completely by intercepting more light, taking up more nitrogen, and occupying more of the available space.

TL;DR: In this paper, by integrating the predictions from multiple theories into a single model and using data from 1,126 grassland plots spanning five continents, the authors detect the clear signals of numerous underlying mechanisms linking productivity and richness.

TL;DR: The results suggest that stabilizing effects of diversity on community productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding appear to be general in grassland ecosystems.