Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

Intraguild predation enhances biodiversity and functioning in complex food webs

(2019) Shaopeng Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Managing the middle: A shift in conservation priorities based on the global human modification gradient

(2019) Christina M. Kennedy et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Parameterization of biodiversity-productivity relationship and its scale dependency using georeferenced tree-level data

(2019) Weixue Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tropical fish diversity enhances coral reef functioning across multiple scales

(2019) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   Science Advances

Synchrony is more than its top-down and climatic parts: interacting Moran effects on phytoplankton in British seas

(2019) Lawrence W. Sheppard et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Tree diversity increases robustness of multi-trophic interactions

(2019) Felix Fornoff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complex networks reveal global pattern of extreme-rainfall teleconnections

(2019) Niklas Boers et al.   NATURE

Larger Area Facilitates Richness-Function Effects in Experimental Microcosms

(2019) John P. DeLong et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Species insurance trumps spatial insurance in stabilizing biomass of a marine macroalgal metacommunity

(2019) Thomas Lamy et al.   ECOLOGY

Horizontal and vertical diversity jointly shape food web stability against small and large perturbations

(2019) Qinghua Zhao et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Species richness change across spatial scales

(2019) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   OIKOS

Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality

(2019) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatial insurance in multi‐trophic metacommunities

(2019) Romana Limberger et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Non-trophic interactions strengthen the diversity—functioning relationship in an ecological bioenergetic network model

(2019) Vincent Miele et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Multi-scale dynamics and environmental controls on net ecosystem CO 2 exchange over a temperate semiarid shrubland

(2018) Xin Jia et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places

(2018) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Shifts in the dynamics of productivity signal ecosystem state transitions at the biome-scale

(2018) Zhongmin Hu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Understanding relationships among ecosystem services across spatial scales and over time

(2018) Jiangxiao Qiu et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The relationship between the spatial scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem stability

(2018) Robin Delsol et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Long-term effects of species loss on community properties across contrasting ecosystems

(2018) Paul Kardol et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic homogenization of amphibian assemblages in human-altered habitats across the globe

(2018) A. Justin Nowakowski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The strength of the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship depends on spatial scale

(2018) Patrick L. Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phytoplankton size diversity and ecosystem function relationships across oceanic regions

(2018) Esteban Acevedo-Trejos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predictability and environmental drivers of chlorophyll fluctuations vary across different time scales and regions of the North Sea

(2018) Anouk N. Blauw et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Species turnover promotes the importance of bee diversity for crop pollination at regional scales

(2018) Rachael Winfree et al.   SCIENCE

β-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning

(2018) Akira S. Mori et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function

(2018) Anna K. Schweiger et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The spatial scaling of species interaction networks

(2018) Nuria Galiana et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Uses and Misuses of Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Science and Conservation

(2018) Melania E. Cristescu et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships

(2018) Fons van der Plas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Climate mediates the biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationship globally

(2018) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Measuring β-diversity by remote sensing: A challenge for biodiversity monitoring

(2018) Duccio Rocchini et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Grain size affects the relationship between species richness and above-ground biomass in semi-arid rangelands

(2018) Anvar Sanaei et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Interannual variability of ecosystem carbon exchange: From observation to prediction

(2017) Shuli Niu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A global geography of synchrony for terrestrial vegetation

(2017) Emma J. Defriez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns

(2017) Corina E. Tarnita et al.   NATURE

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

(2017) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

(2017) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   NATURE

Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

(2017) Paul Tréguer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale

(2017) Jacqueline Oehri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental dispersal reveals characteristic scales of biodiversity in a natural landscape

(2017) Rachel M. Germain et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate-driven changes in functional biogeography of Arctic marine fish communities

(2017) André Frainer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An invariability-area relationship sheds new light on the spatial scaling of ecological stability

(2017) Shaopeng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Quantification of network structural dissimilarities

(2017) Tiago A. Schieber et al.   Nature Communications

Habitat diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality—The importance of direct and indirect effects

(2017) Christian Alsterberg et al.   Science Advances

Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems

(2017) Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Spatial complementarity in tree crowns explains overyielding in species mixtures

(2017) Laura J. Williams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The spatial scales of species coexistence

(2017) Simon P. Hart et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The multilayer nature of ecological networks

(2017) Shai Pilosof et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ecosystem functioning is enveloped by hydrometeorological variability

(2017) Christoforos Pappas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

(2017) Alex Bush et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World

(2016) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Functional and structural stability are linked in phytoplankton metacommunities of different connectivity

(2016) Nils Guelzow et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Loss of habitat and connectivity erodes species diversity, ecosystem functioning, and stability in metacommunity networks

(2016) Patrick L. Thompson et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Linking Earth Observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: Local to ecosystem perspectives

(2016) A. Lausch et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Grazer diversity interacts with biogenic habitat heterogeneity to accelerate intertidal algal succession

(2016) Matthew A. Whalen et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecosystem multifunctionality in metacommunities

(2016) Patrick L. Thompson et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability across scales in metacommunities

(2016) Shaopeng Wang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Synchrony, compensatory dynamics, and the functional trait basis of phenological diversity in a tropical dry forest tree community: effects of rainfall seasonality

(2016) Jesse R Lasky et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Landscape structure affects the provision of multiple ecosystem services

(2016) T Lamy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Climate change-related regime shifts have altered spatial synchrony of plankton dynamics in the North Sea

(2016) Emma J. Defriez et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global patterns and drivers of species and trait composition in diatoms

(2016) Janne Soininen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Deep-sea diversity patterns are shaped by energy availability

(2016) Skipton N. C. Woolley et al.   NATURE

Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

(2016) Lionel Guidi et al.   NATURE

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

(2016) James B. Grace et al.   NATURE

A general biodiversity-function relationship is mediated by trophic level

(2016) Mary I. O'Connor et al.   OIKOS

Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships in long-term time series and palaeoecological records: deep sea as a test bed

(2016) Moriaki Yasuhara et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes

(2016) Ulrich Brose et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large scale, synchronous variability of marine fish populations driven by commercial exploitation

(2016) Kenneth T. Frank et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in response to climate warming

(2016) Tatiana A. Shestakova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional diversity of catch mitigates negative effects of temperature variability on fisheries yields

(2016) Laura E. Dee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Microbes in the Anthropocene: spillover of agriculturally selected bacteria and their impact on natural ecosystems

(2016) Thomas Bell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

(2016) J. Liang et al.   SCIENCE

Stability and complexity in model meta-ecosystems

(2016) Dominique Gravel et al.   Nature Communications

Macroecological scale effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions under environmental change

(2016) Hugh M Burley et al.   Ecology and Evolution

How Structured Is the Entangled Bank? The Surprisingly Simple Organization of Multiplex Ecological Networks Leads to Increased Persistence and Resilience

(2016) Sonia Kéfi et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Spectranomics: Emerging science and conservation opportunities at the interface of biodiversity and remote sensing

(2016) Gregory P. Asner et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Synergistic Ecoclimate Teleconnections from Forest Loss in Different Regions Structure Global Ecological Responses

(2016) Elizabeth S. Garcia et al.   PLoS One

Phytoplankton size-diversity mediates an emergent trade-off in ecosystem functioning for rare versus frequent disturbances

(2016) S. Lan Smith et al.   Scientific Reports

Strong and nonlinear effects of fragmentation on ecosystem service provision at multiple scales

(2015) Matthew G E Mitchell et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The dynamical landscape of marine phytoplankton diversity

(2015) Marina Lévy et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Biodiversity, productivity, and the spatial insurance hypothesis revisited

(2015) David W. Shanafelt et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Metabolic theory predicts whole-ecosystem properties

(2015) John R. Schramski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of biodiversity loss on production in complex marine food webs mitigated by prey-release

(2015) Tak Fung et al.   Nature Communications

Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth's ecosystems

(2015) N. M. Haddad et al.   Science Advances

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

(2014) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Causal networks clarify productivity-richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not

(2014) James B. Grace et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Measuring fluxes of trace gases and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere - the state and future of the eddy covariance method

(2014) Dennis Baldocchi   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest fragments modulate the provision of multiple ecosystem services

(2014) Matthew G. E. Mitchell et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Warming induces synchrony and destabilizes experimental pond zooplankton metacommunities

(2014) Patrick L. Thompson et al.   OIKOS

Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

(2014) M. Reichstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

(2014) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Meta-ecosystem dynamics and functioning on finite spatial networks

(2014) J. N. Marleau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Synchronous dynamics of zooplankton competitors prevail in temperate lake ecosystems

(2014) D. A. Vasseur et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Migratory Animals Couple Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Worldwide

(2014) S. Bauer et al.   SCIENCE

Real world biodiversity–ecosystem functioning: a seafloor perspective

(2014) Paul V.R. Snelgrove et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Andrew D. Barnes et al.   Nature Communications

Global relationship between phytoplankton diversity and productivity in the ocean

(2014) S. M. Vallina et al.   Nature Communications

Emergent Global Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Function from a Mechanistic General Ecosystem Model

(2014) Michael B. J. Harfoot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Trophic complementarity drives the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in food webs

(2013) Timothée Poisot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using landscape history to predict biodiversity patterns in fragmented landscapes

(2013) Robert M. Ewers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

General relationships between consumer dispersal, resource dispersal and metacommunity diversity

(2013) Bart Haegeman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

(2013) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

(2013) Ryan A. Chisholm et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Wavelet analysis in ecology and epidemiology: impact of statistical tests

(2013) B. Cazelles et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality

(2013) J. R. Pasari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional diversity and management mediate aboveground carbon stocks in small forest fragments

(2013) Carly Ziter et al.   Ecosphere

Traits explain community disassembly and trophic contraction following experimental environmental change

(2012) Zoë Lindo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trophodynamics and stability of regional scale ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic

(2012) N. McGinty et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The influence of local- and landscape-scale processes on spatial self-organization in estuarine ecosystems

(2012) J. van de Koppel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A size-structured food-web model for the global ocean

(2012) B. A. Ward et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

(2012) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Food web expansion and contraction in response to changing environmental conditions

(2012) Tyler D. Tunney et al.   Nature Communications

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Scale-dependent response diversity of seabirds to prey in the North Sea

(2011) Per Fauchald et al.   ECOLOGY

Differential effects of energy and mass influx on the landscape synchrony of lake ecosystems

(2011) Richard J. Vogt et al.   ECOLOGY

Diversity and stability of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs

(2011) Loïc M. Thibaut et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology

(2011) François Massol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale   NATURE

Synchrony and Stability of Food Webs in Metacommunities

(2010) Tarik C. Gouhier et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The species-energy theory: a role for energy variability

(2010) Rodolfo Carrara et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Connectivity, non-random extinction and ecosystem function in experimental metacommunities

(2010) Philip Staddon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trophic level asynchrony in rates of phenological change for marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments

(2010) STEPHEN J. THACKERAY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity–productivity relationship

(2010) Dominique Gravel et al.   NATURE

Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species

(2010) Daniel E. Schindler et al.   NATURE

Bacterial Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relations Are Modified by Environmental Complexity

(2010) Silke Langenheder et al.   PLoS One

The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities

(2009) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Reducing horizontal and vertical diversity in a foodweb triggers extinctions and impacts functions

(2009) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity-manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns?

(2009) Lin Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Cross-Modulated Amplitudes and Frequencies Characterize Interacting Components in Complex Systems

(2009) Fabian Gans et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Detecting synchronization in coupled stochastic ecosystem networks

(2009) N. Kouvaris et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS A

Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

(2009) Mikko Kuussaari et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover

(2009) Stephen T. Jackson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Species Synchrony and Its Drivers: Neutral and Nonneutral Community Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments

(2008) Michel Loreau et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecological consequences of genetic diversity

(2008) A. Randall Hughes et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Living in an increasingly connected world: a framework for continental-scale environmental science

(2008) Debra PC Peters et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Coherent ecological dynamics induced by large-scale disturbance

(2008) Timothy H. Keitt   NATURE

Diversity predicts stability and resource use efficiency in natural phytoplankton communities

(2008) Robert Ptacnik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems

(2008) Jason M Tylianakis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY