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Brian J. Wilsey
Researcher at Iowa State University
Publications - 109
Citations - 9164
Brian J. Wilsey is an academic researcher from Iowa State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Species diversity. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 107 publications receiving 7647 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian J. Wilsey include Louisiana State University & McGill University.
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High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services
Forest Isbell,Vincent Calcagno,Andy Hector,John Connolly,W. Stanley Harpole,Peter B. Reich,Peter B. Reich,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Bernhard Schmid,David Tilman,Jasper van Ruijven,Alexandra Weigelt,Brian J. Wilsey,Erika S. Zavaleta,Michel Loreau +14 more
TL;DR: It is shown that 84% of the 147 grassland plant species studied in 17 biodiversity experiments promoted ecosystem functioning at least once, and many species are needed to maintain multiple functions at multiple times and places in a changing world.
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Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes
Forest Isbell,Dylan Craven,John Connolly,M. Loreau,Bernhard Schmid,Carl Beierkuhnlein,T. Martin Bezemer,Catherine L. Bonin,Helge Bruelheide,Enrica De Luca,Anne Ebeling,John N. Griffin,Qinfeng Guo,Yann Hautier,Andy Hector,Anke Jentsch,Jürgen Kreyling,Vojtěch Lanta,Peter Manning,Sebastian T. Meyer,Akira Mori,Shahid Naeem,Pascal A. Niklaus,H. Wayne Polley,Peter B. Reich,Peter B. Reich,Christiane Roscher,Eric W. Seabloom,Melinda D. Smith,Madhav P. Thakur,David Tilman,David Tilman,Benjamin F. Tracy,Wim H. van der Putten,Jasper van Ruijven,Alexandra Weigelt,Wolfgang W. Weisser,Brian J. Wilsey,Nico Eisenhauer +38 more
TL;DR: Biodiversity mainly stabilizes ecosystem productivity, and productivity-dependent ecosystem services, by increasing resistance to climate events, and restoration of biodiversity to increase it, mainly by changing the resistance of ecosystem productivity toClimate events.
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Empirical Relationships between Species Richness, Evenness, and Proportional Diversity.
Gray Stirling,Brian J. Wilsey +1 more
TL;DR: The results of Caswell's neutral model were used to generate null relationships between richness (S), evenness (A), and proportional diversity (B) and to test predictions of the null model against empirical relationships describing data in a literature survey and in four individual studies conducted across various scales.
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Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes.
TL;DR: It was found that productivity was less variable among years in plots planted with more species, and temporal stability did not depend on whether the species were planted equally abundant or not, and species interactions can promote biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: importance of species evenness in an old field
Brian J. Wilsey,Catherine Potvin +1 more
TL;DR: This work experimentally varied species evenness and the identity of the dominant plant species in an old field of Quebec to test whether plant productivity would increase with increasing levels of evenness, and whether relationships would be invariant with respect to species identity.