Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions
Wolfgang W. Weisser,Christiane Roscher,Sebastian T. Meyer,Anne Ebeling,Guangjuan Luo,Eric Allan,Holger Beßler,Romain L. Barnard,Romain L. Barnard,Nina Buchmann,François Buscot,Christof Engels,Christine Fischer,Christine Fischer,Markus Fischer,Arthur Gessler,Gerd Gleixner,Stefan Halle,Anke Hildebrandt,Anke Hildebrandt,Helmut Hillebrand,Hans de Kroon,Markus Lange,Sophia Leimer,Xavier Le Roux,Alexandru Milcu,Alexandru Milcu,Liesje Mommer,Pascal A. Niklaus,Pascal A. Niklaus,Yvonne Oelmann,Raphaël Proulx,Jacques Roy,Christoph Scherber,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Stefan Scheu,Teja Tscharntke,Michael Wachendorf,Cameron Wagg,Alexandra Weigelt,Wolfgang Wilcke,Christian Wirth,Ernst Detlef Schulze,Bernhard Schmid,Nico Eisenhauer +44 more
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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.About:
This article is published in Basic and Applied Ecology.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 266 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Species richness & Ecosystem engineer.read more
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Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from 46 experiments that manipulated grassland plant diversity to test whether biodiversity provides resistance during and resilience after climate events, and found that biodiversity increased ecosystem resilience for a broad range of climate events.
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Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness
James B. Grace,T. Michael Andersen,Eric W. Seabloom,Elizabeth T. Borer,Peter B. Adler,W. Stanley Harpole,Yann Hautier,Helmut Hillebrand,Eric M. Lind,Meelis Pärtel,Jonathan D. Bakker,Yvonne M. Buckley,Michael J. Crawley,Ellen I. Damschen,Kendi F. Davies,Philip A. Fay,Jennifer Firn,Daniel S. Gruner,Andy Hector,Johannes M. H. Knops,Andrew S. MacDougall,Brett A. Melbourne,John W. Morgan,John L. Orrock,Suzanne M. Prober,Melinda D. Smith +25 more
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.
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The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences
Kathryn E. Barry,Liesje Mommer,Jasper van Ruijven,Christian Wirth,Christian Wirth,Alexandra J. Wright,Yongfei Bai,John Connolly,Gerlinde B. De Deyn,Hans de Kroon,Forest Isbell,Alexandru Milcu,Alexandru Milcu,Christiane Roscher,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Bernhard Schmid,Alexandra Weigelt +16 more
TL;DR: It is argued that disentangling three causes of complementarity into three types of species differences that may cause enhanced ecosystem functioning in more diverse ecosystems is crucial for predicting the response of ecosystems to future biodiversity loss.
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Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems
Andreas Schuldt,Andreas Schuldt,Anne Ebeling,Matthias Kunz,Michael Staab,Claudia Guimarães-Steinicke,Dörte Bachmann,Nina Buchmann,Walter Durka,Andreas Fichtner,Felix Fornoff,Werner Härdtle,Lionel R. Hertzog,Alexandra-Maria Klein,Christiane Roscher,Jörg Schaller,Goddert von Oheimb,Alexandra Weigelt,Wolfgang W. Weisser,Christian Wirth,Jiayong Zhang,Helge Bruelheide,Nico Eisenhauer +22 more
TL;DR: It is found that plant species richness effects on consumer species richness are consistently positive and mediated by elevated structural and functional diversity of the plant communities, and vary across ecosystems and trophic levels.
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Is the future of agriculture perennial? Imperatives and opportunities to reinvent agriculture by shifting from annual monocultures to perennial polycultures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a sustainable agroecosystem with the potential to revitalize the economic foundation of farming and hence rural societies, by using perennial polycultures informed by natural ecosystems.
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