Sophia Leimer

TL;DR: The results from the Jena Experiment provide further evidence that diversity begets stability, for example stability against invasion of plant species, but unexpectedly some results also suggested the opposite, e.g. when plant communities experience severe perturbations or elevated resource availability.

TL;DR: It is shown that when a disturbance is associated with an increase in resource availability, the opposite may occur, undermining the utility of the biodiversity-stability hypothesis during a large number of disturbances where resource availability increases.

TL;DR: It is shown that increasing land-use intensity homogenizes the synergies between three organizational levels of the ecosystem, namely, biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services, and that this approach provides a comprehensive view of ecosystem functioning and can identify the key ecosystem attributes to monitor in order to prevent critical shifts in ecosystems.

TL;DR: This article found evidence that negative feedback effects at low biodiversity are as important for biodiversity effects as complementarity among species at high biodiversity, and that a current loss of species will result in a future impairment of ecosystem functioning, potentially decades beyond the moment of species extinction.

TL;DR: There are specific limits to the extent to which traits per se can predict the long-term functional consequences of biodiversity change, so that data on additional drivers, such as interacting abiotic factors, may be required to improve predictions of ecosystem property levels.