Paul S. Giller

TL;DR: Niche complementarity and positive species interactions appear to play a role in generating diversity-productivity relationships within sites in addition to sampling from the species pool.

TL;DR: Dramatically slowed breakdown at both extremes of the gradient indicated strong nutrient limitation in unaffected systems, potential for strong stimulation in moderately altered systems, and inhibition in highly polluted streams, emphasizing the need to complement established structural approaches with functional measures for assessing ecosystem health.

TL;DR: Runnning waters - a unique habitat running water habitats the habitat templet life in running waters adaptations to life inRunning waters energy and nutrients movement and interaction community patterns, diversity, and biogeography the use, abuse, and conservation of running waters studies inrunning waters.

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 problems facing soil ecologists in the study of soil communities are considered and the important role such communities play in terrestrial ecosystems are identified and areas where further work is desirable to improve the structure and functioning of soil Communities are identified.