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

Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity

(2016) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   ECOLOGY

Scaling up the diversity-resilience relationship with trait databases and remote sensing data: the recovery of productivity after wildfire

(2016) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do experiments exploring plant diversity-ecosystem functioning relationships inform how biodiversity loss impacts natural ecosystems?

(2016) David A. Wardle   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

(2016) James B. Grace et al.   NATURE

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

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

(2016) Fons van der Plas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Macroecological scale effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functions under environmental change

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

Frontiers in research on biodiversity and disease

(2015) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service

(2015) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

(2015) Eric Allan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Crop diversification can contribute to disease risk control in sustainable biofuels production

(2015) Val H Smith et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect

(2015) David J. Civitello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

(2015) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   Nature Communications

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

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

A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

(2014) Anne Ebeling et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

(2014) Yann Hautier et al.   NATURE

Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

(2014) Debra Zuppinger-Dingley et al.   NATURE

Overlooked local biodiversity loss--Response

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

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

Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments

(2014) Camilo Mora et al.   Scientific Reports

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

(2013) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

(2013) M. Vellend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

(2013) F. Isbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evidence that evolutionarily diverse assemblages result in higher productivity

(2013) M. W. Cadotte   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

(2013) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

(2013) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Phylogenetically diverse grasslands are associated with pairwise interspecific processes that increase biomass

(2011) John Connolly et al.   ECOLOGY

Genotypic richness and dissimilarity opposingly affect ecosystem functioning

(2011) A. Jousset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Belowground biodiversity effects of plant symbionts support aboveground productivity

(2011) Cameron Wagg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale   NATURE

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Aboveground–belowground interactions as a source of complementarity effects in biodiversity experiments

(2011) Nico Eisenhauer   PLANT AND SOIL

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin 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

Biodiversity effects in real ecosystems – a response to Duffy

(2010) David A Wardle et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real-world ecosystems

(2008) J Emmett Duffy   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Higher effect of plant species diversity on productivity in natural than artificial ecosystems

(2008) P. Flombaum 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