Functional identity is the main driver of diversity effects in young tree communities

Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies

(2015) Patrick Venail et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

(2014) Patricia Balvanera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interspecific Neighbor Interactions Promote the Positive Diversity-Productivity Relationship in Experimental Grassland Communities

(2014) Yuhua Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Advancing biodiversity–ecosystem functioning science using high-density tree-based experiments over functional diversity gradients

(2013) Cornelia M. Tobner et al.   OECOLOGIA

Beyond shading: Litter production by neighbors contributes to overyielding in tropical trees

(2012) Jurgis Sapijanskas et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional trade-offs increase species diversity in experimental plant communities

(2012) Eyal Ben-Hur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients

(2012) Bastian Steudel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Yu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

Key canopy traits drive forest productivity

(2012) P. B. Reich   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Nutrient enrichment reduces complementarity and increases priority effects in prairies managed for bioenergy

(2011) Meghann E. Jarchow et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species

(2011) E. Allan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: plant partitioning of chemical N forms

(2010) Isabel W. Ashton et al.   ECOLOGY

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2010) Dominique Gravel et al.   NATURE

Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service?

(2010) Karin Nadrowski et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Resource and non-resource root competition effects of grasses on early- versus late-successional trees

(2009) Christian Messier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Elevated CO2 Reduces Losses of Plant Diversity Caused by Nitrogen Deposition

(2009) P. B. Reich   SCIENCE

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding

(2008) Bernhard Schmid et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Environmental heterogeneity increases complementarity in experimental grassland communities

(2007) L. Wacker et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY