Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle

Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology

(2021) Koenraad Van Meerbeek et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Determinants of ecosystem stability in a diverse temperate forest

(2020) Jiri Dolezal et al.   OIKOS

The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants

(2020) Joana Bergmann et al.   Science Advances

Are redundancy indices redundant? An evaluation based on parameterized simulations

(2020) Thomas Galland et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

(2020) Enrique Valencia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional differences stabilize beetle communities by weakening interspecific temporal synchrony

(2019) Roel Klink et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Accounting for long‐term directional trends on year‐to‐year synchrony in species fluctuations

(2019) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Large herbivore assemblages in a changing climate: incorporating water dependence and thermoregulation

(2019) M. P. Veldhuis et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Advancing our understanding of ecological stability

(2019) Sonia Kéfi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience

(2018) Johannes Ingrisch et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

(2018) Dylan Craven et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Compound fire-drought regimes promote ecosystem transitions in Mediterranean ecosystems

(2018) Enric Batllori et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The consecutive disparity index, D : a measure of temporal variability in ecological studies

(2018) Marcos Fernández‐Martínez et al.   Ecosphere

Land use in mountain grasslands alters drought response and recovery of carbon allocation and plant-microbial interactions

(2017) Stefan Karlowsky et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

(2017) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity moves beyond counting species

(2017) Rachel Cernansky   NATURE

Functional diversity increases ecological stability in a grazed grassland

(2017) Lauren M. Hallett et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

(2017) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

(2017) Nicolas Gross et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability across scales in metacommunities

(2016) Shaopeng Wang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant secondary metabolites: a key driver of litter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling

(2016) Mathilde Chomel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver

(2016) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plants are less negatively affected by flooding when growing in species-rich plant communities

(2016) Alexandra J. Wright et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment

(2016) Justin P. Wright et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

(2016) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity

(2016) Nico Blüthgen et al.   Nature Communications

Measuring the functional redundancy of biological communities: a quantitative guide

(2016) Carlo Ricotta et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

(2015) Tom H. Oliver et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plant functional traits as determinants of population stability

(2014) Maria Májeková et al.   ECOLOGY

Combined effects of climate, resource availability, and plant traits on biomass produced in a Mediterranean rangeland

(2014) Simon Chollet et al.   ECOLOGY

Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

(2014) Debra Zuppinger-Dingley et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire-prone ecosystems

(2014) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbohydrate storage in meadow plants and its depletion after disturbance: do roots and stem-derived organs differ in their roles?

(2014) Štěpán Janeček et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

(2014) D. Mouillot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) Kevin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient

(2013) Lauren M. Hallett et al.   ECOLOGY

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

(2013) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trait-based tests of coexistence mechanisms

(2013) Peter B. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Herbivory mediated by coupling between biomechanical traits of plants and grasshoppers

(2013) Sébastien Ibanez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events

(2013) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant functional traits improve diversity-based predictions of temporal stability of grassland productivity

(2013) H. Wayne Polley et al.   OIKOS

Epigenetic diversity increases the productivity and stability of plant populations

(2013) Vít Latzel et al.   Nature Communications

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

(2012) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   ECOLOGY

Understanding diversity-stability relationships: towards a unified model of portfolio effects

(2012) Loïc M. Thibaut et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Traits underpinning desiccation resistance explain distribution patterns of terrestrial isopods

(2012) André T. C. Dias et al.   OECOLOGIA

To resprout or not to resprout: factors driving intraspecific variability in resprouting

(2012) Bruno Moreira et al.   OIKOS

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Functionally similar species have similar dynamics

(2011) Marcia R. Rocha et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Identifying population- and community-level mechanisms of diversity-stability relationships in experimental grasslands

(2011) Christiane Roscher et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2011) David Mouillot et al.   PLoS One

Resilience and stability in bird guilds across tropical countryside

(2011) D. S. Karp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach

(2010) S. Pavoine et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Community and ecosystem effects of intraspecific genetic diversity in grassland microcosms of varying species diversity

(2010) Jason D. Fridley et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

(2010) Johannes Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community

(2009) Remi Vergnon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

(2009) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of facilitation on community stability and dynamics: synthesis and future directions

(2009) Bradley J. Butterfield   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

(2009) Amy L. Angert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Testing the Holy Grail framework: using functional traits to predict ecosystem change

(2008) Katharine N. Suding et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST