E. Bazeley-White

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

TL;DR: A positive relationship between production in monoculture and dominance in mixtures as predicted by the Sampling Effect Hypothesis is found and a new general framework for overyielding analysis is presented where every monocculture provides a potential comparison and from which the most relevant tests can be selected.

TL;DR: The results are consistent with the view that naturally uncommon species may be unaffected by (or even benefit from) the presence of a large naturally common species, and that uncommon plants may have little ability to increase productivity in the absence of such a species.

TL;DR: In biodiversity manipulation experiments more diverse communities are generally more resistant to invasion, and positive effects of species diversity on invasion resistance were found in experimental manipulations of plant diversity conducted in the field and in the glasshouse.