Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments

Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

(2020) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interactions between changing climate and biodiversity: Shaping humanity’s future

(2020) F. Stuart Chapin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climatic humidity mediates the strength of the species richness–biomass relationship on the Mongolian Plateau steppe

(2020) Zijing Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil

(2020) Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta et al.   Nature Communications

Plant diversity loss reduces soil respiration across terrestrial ecosystems

(2019) Xinli Chen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate and litter C/N ratio constrain soil organic carbon accumulation

(2019) Guoyi Zhou et al.   National Science Review

Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity

(2019) Yi Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Belowground Biomass Response to Nutrient Enrichment Depends on Light Limitation Across Globally Distributed Grasslands

(2019) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Increased microbial growth, biomass and turnover drive soil organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity

(2019) Judith Prommer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of plant diversity on soil carbon in diverse ecosystems: a global meta‐analysis

(2019) Xinli Chen et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning respond unimodally to environmental stress

(2018) Jan M. Baert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade-long grassland experiment

(2018) Christine Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

tmap: Thematic Maps in R

(2018) Martijn Tennekes   Journal of Statistical Software

Lost in diversity: the interactions between soil-borne fungi, biodiversity and plant productivity

(2018) Liesje Mommer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity and forest productivity in a changing climate

(2018) Christian Ammer   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage

(2018) Shiping Chen 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

A million and more trees for science

(2018) Alain Paquette et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

(2018) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

(2018) Yuanyuan Huang et al.   SCIENCE

Plant diversity enhances the natural attenuation of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs and oxygenated PAHs) in grassland soils

(2018) Benjamin A. Musa Bandowe et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Relationships between plant diversity and biomass production of alpine grasslands are dependent on the spatial scale and the dimension of biodiversity

(2018) Yu Li et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

(2017) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

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

Root biomass and exudates link plant diversity with soil bacterial and fungal biomass

(2017) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   Scientific Reports

Shifting grassland plant community structure drives positive interactive effects of warming and diversity on aboveground net primary productivity

(2016) Jane M. Cowles et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A cross-biome synthesis of soil respiration and its determinants under simulated precipitation changes

(2016) Lingli Liu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of species diversity on fine root productivity in diverse ecosystems: a global meta-analysis

(2016) Zilong Ma et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems

(2016) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

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

Tree-microbial biomass competition for nutrients in a temperate deciduous forest, central Germany

(2016) Marcus Schmidt et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

(2016) Sebastian T. Meyer et al.   Ecosphere

Convergence of soil microbial properties after plant colonization of an experimental plant diversity gradient

(2016) Katja Steinauer et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

(2015) Madhav Prakash Thakur et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate modulates the effects of tree diversity on forest productivity

(2015) Tommaso Jucker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Associations between plant composition/diversity and the abiotic environment across six vegetation types in a biodiversity hotspot of Hainan Island, China

(2015) Yong Jiang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Flooding disturbances increase resource availability and productivity but reduce stability in diverse plant communities

(2015) Alexandra J. Wright et al.   Nature Communications

Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

(2015) Markus Lange et al.   Nature Communications

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Uses and misuses of meta-analysis in plant ecology

(2014) Julia Koricheva et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Long-term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

(2014) Janneke M. Ravenek et al.   OIKOS

Biotic and Abiotic Properties Mediating Plant Diversity Effects on Soil Microbial Communities in an Experimental Grassland

(2014) Markus Lange et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NATURE

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment

(2012) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ECOLOGY

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

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

Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant diversity effects on aboveground and belowground N pools in temperate grassland ecosystems: Development in the first 5 years after establishment

(2011) Yvonne Oelmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Global change belowground: impacts of elevated CO2, nitrogen, and summer drought on soil food webs and biodiversity

(2011) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2011) Raf Aerts et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis

(2010) N. Eisenhauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect effects of tree diversity drive soil microbial diversity in temperate deciduous forest

(2010) Carolin Thoms et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil carbon stock in relation to plant diversity of homegardens in Kerala, India

(2009) Subhrajit K. Saha et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity–productivity relationship in an N-limited grassland

(2009) D. A. Fornara et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region

(2009) C. Tarnocai et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long-term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina

(2008) Lucía Vivanco et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2008) D. A. Fornara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY