Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application

Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

(2020) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Local species diversity, β-diversity and climate influence the regional stability of bird biomass across North America

(2020) Christopher P. Catano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complex interactions can create persistent fluctuations in high-diversity ecosystems

(2020) Felix Roy et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Disentangling local, metapopulation, and cross‐community sources of stabilization and asynchrony in metacommunities

(2020) Matthew Hammond et al.   Ecosphere

Determinants of ecosystem stability in a diverse temperate forest

(2020) Jiri Dolezal et al.   OIKOS

Tropical fish diversity enhances coral reef functioning across multiple scales

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

Trade‐offs in the provisioning and stability of ecosystem services in agroecosystems

(2019) Daniel Montoya et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Stability and synchrony across ecological hierarchies in heterogeneous metacommunities: linking theory to data

(2019) Shaopeng Wang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2019) Thomas Lamy et al.   ECOLOGY

When Do Ecosystem Services Depend on Rare Species?

(2019) Laura E. Dee et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The inherent multidimensionality of temporal variability: how common and rare species shape stability patterns

(2019) Jean‐François Arnoldi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

National food production stabilized by crop diversity

(2019) Delphine Renard et al.   NATURE

Forest management optimization across spatial scales to reconcile economic and conservation objectives

(2019) Tähti Pohjanmies et al.   PLoS One

Global evidence of positive biodiversity effects on spatial ecosystem stability in natural grasslands

(2019) Yongfan Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Spatial insurance in multi‐trophic metacommunities

(2019) Romana Limberger et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nutrient-induced shifts of dominant species reduce ecosystem stability via increases in species synchrony and population variability

(2019) Ming-Hua Song et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The value of understanding feedbacks from ecosystem functions to species for managing ecosystems

(2019) Hui Xiao et al.   Nature Communications

Spatial variation in exploited metapopulations obscures risk of collapse

(2019) Daniel K. Okamoto et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Chesson's coexistence theory

(2018) György Barabás et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places

(2018) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The relationship between the spatial scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem stability

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

Reducing risk in reserve selection using Modern Portfolio Theory: Coastal planning under sea-level rise

(2018) Rebecca K. Runting et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Grassland biodiversity can pay

(2018) Seth Binder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2018) Rachael Winfree et al.   SCIENCE

Unexpected reversal of C3versus C4grass response to elevated CO2during a 20-year field experiment

(2018) Peter B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Species dispersal and biodiversity in human-dominated metacommunities

(2018) David W. Shanafelt et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Effect of Species Complementarity on Financial Return in Mixed Stands of European Beech and Scots Pine in Northern Spain

(2018) Fernando García-Robredo   Forests

Interactions among trees: A key element in the stabilising effect of species diversity on forest growth

(2018) Raphaël Aussenac et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Catch diversification provides multiple benefits in inland fisheries

(2018) Shin-Ichiro S. Matsuzaki et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Spatial heterogeneity contributes more to portfolio effects than species variability in bottom-associated marine fishes

(2018) James T. Thorson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of increased specialization on revenue of Alaskan salmon fishers over four decades

(2017) Eric J. Ward et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability in growth response to environmental fluctuations modulates the stabilizing effect of species diversity on forest growth

(2017) Raphaël Aussenac et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

(2017) Miren del Río et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems

(2017) Forest Isbell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Collective Phase in Resource Competition in a Highly Diverse Ecosystem

(2017) Mikhail Tikhonov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Impact of catch shares on diversification of fishers’ income and risk

(2017) Daniel S. Holland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Benefits and risks of diversification for individual fishers

(2017) Sean C. Anderson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fisheries portfolio diversification and turnover buffer Alaskan fishing communities from abrupt resource and market changes

(2017) Timothy J. Cline et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2017) Shaopeng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Population extinctions can increase metapopulation persistence

(2017) Jeremy W. Fox et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2016) Patrick L. Thompson et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability across scales in metacommunities

(2016) Shaopeng Wang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Forest planning and productivity-risk trade-off through the Markowitz mean-variance model

(2016) Arnaud Dragicevic et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Nitrogen enrichment weakens ecosystem stability through decreased species asynchrony and population stability in a temperate grassland

(2016) Yunhai Zhang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

A Review of Processes Behind Diversity—Productivity Relationships in Forests

(2016) David I. Forrester et al.   Current Forestry Reports

The portfolio concept in ecology and evolution

(2015) Daniel E Schindler et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Biodiversity, productivity, and the spatial insurance hypothesis revisited

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

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Dispersal and metapopulation stability

(2015) Shaopeng Wang et al.   PeerJ

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

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

Effect of risk aversion on prioritizing conservation projects

(2014) Ayesha I.T. Tulloch et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics

(2014) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecosystem stability in space: α, β and γ variability

(2014) Shaopeng Wang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: linking patterns and processes

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma: A Multidisciplinary Framework

(2014) Oded Berger-Tal et al.   PLoS One

Viewing forests through the lens of complex systems science

(2014) Elise Filotas et al.   Ecosphere

Species Richness and the Temporal Stability of Biomass Production: A New Analysis of Recent Biodiversity Experiments

(2013) Kevin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass, but the effects are independent

(2013) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Plant apparency, an overlooked driver of associational resistance to insect herbivory

(2013) Bastien Castagneyrol et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Income diversification and risk for fishermen

(2013) S. Kasperski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Achieving the triple bottom line in the face of inherent trade-offs among social equity, economic return, and conservation

(2013) B. S. Halpern et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bet-hedging-a triple trade-off between means, variances and correlations

(2012) Jostein Starrfelt et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

How does economic risk aversion affect biodiversity?

(2012) L. Mouysset et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biodiversity buffers pollination from changes in environmental conditions

(2012) Claire Brittain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Resistance of European tree species to drought stress in mixedversuspure forests: evidence of stress release by inter-specific facilitation

(2012) H. Pretzsch et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Contrasted Effects of Diversity and Immigration on Ecological Insurance in Marine Bacterioplankton Communities

(2012) Thierry Bouvier et al.   PLoS One

Ecosystem service tradeoff analysis reveals the value of marine spatial planning for multiple ocean uses

(2012) C. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optimal portfolio design to reduce climate-related conservation uncertainty in the Prairie Pothole Region

(2012) A. W. Ando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The optimal tree species composition for a private forest enterprise – applying the theory of portfolio selection

(2012) Susanne Neuner et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Diversity and stability of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs

(2011) Loïc M. Thibaut et al.   ECOLOGY

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

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

Integrating food web diversity, structure and stability

(2011) Neil Rooney et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Philip Staddon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mechanisms contributing to stability in ecosystem function depend on the environmental context

(2010) Emily Grman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Risk management for fisheries

(2010) Suresh A Sethi   FISH AND FISHERIES

THE INSURANCE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

(2010) STEFAN BAUMGÄRTNER   NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING

Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species

(2010) Daniel E. Schindler et al.   NATURE

Different Effects of Species Diversity on Temporal Stability in Single‐Trophic and Multitrophic Communities

(2009) Lin Jiang et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities

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

Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

(2009) Forest I. Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing a biological mechanism of the insurance hypothesis in experimental aquatic communities

(2009) Daniel J. Leary et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Increasing community size and connectance can increase stability in competitive communities

(2009) Mike S. Fowler   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

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

(2008) Michel Loreau et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns

(2008) Stephen Polasky et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR OVERALL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

(2008) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   ECOLOGY

How cod shapes its world

(2008) A. Van Leeuwen et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Detecting compensatory dynamics in competitive communities under environmental forcing

(2008) Esa Ranta et al.   OIKOS

Asynchrony in population dynamics of sockeye salmon in southwest Alaska

(2008) Lauren A. Rogers et al.   OIKOS

Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape

(2008) E. Nelson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural vs. financial insurance in the management of public-good ecosystems

(2007) Martin F. Quaas et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Mixed forests and finance — Methodological approaches

(2007) Thomas Knoke   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS