Understanding the value of plant diversity for ecosystem functioning through niche theory

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

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

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

Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct: a review, framework and case study of herbivory's impact on plant biodiversity

(2016) S. Naeem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

(2016) Tim Newbold et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2015) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

(2015) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure and host abundance drive disease pressure in communities

(2015) Ingrid M. Parker et al.   NATURE

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

Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

(2015) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

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

Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences

(2014) Jurgis Sapijanskas et al.   ECOLOGY

Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity-productivity relationships in Iberian forests

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

(2014) Yann Hautier et al.   NATURE

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Working together: A call for inclusive conservation

(2014) Heather Tallis et al.   NATURE

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

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

(2013) Kevin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecology's dark matter: The elusive and enigmatic niche

(2013) Lindsay Ann Turnbull   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An improved model to predict the effects of changing biodiversity levels on ecosystem function

(2013) John Connolly et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

(2013) Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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(2012) ESA   ECOLOGY

Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning

(2012) Lindsay Ann Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

(2012) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

(2012) S. Naeem et al.   SCIENCE

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

Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function

(2011) Ian T. Carroll et al.   ECOLOGY

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Using knockout mutants to reveal the growth costs of defensive traits

(2011) T. Zust et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil fungal pathogens and the relationship between plant diversity and productivity

(2010) John L. Maron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Different but equal: the implausible assumption at the heart of neutral theory

(2010) Drew W. Purves et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Sustaining multiple ecosystem functions in grassland communities requires higher biodiversity

(2010) E. S. Zavaleta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Challenge of Saving Nature

(2009)   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Ecosystem services: From eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder

(2009) Richard B. Norgaard   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services

(2009) Elena M. Bennett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contribution of acidification and eutrophication to declines in species richness of calcifuge grasslands along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition

(2009) Carly J. Stevens et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Ecosystem services and conservation strategy: beware the silver bullet

(2009) Bhaskar Vira et al.   Conservation Letters

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR OVERALL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

(2008) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   ECOLOGY

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass

(2008) Daniel S. Gruner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity–productivity relationships in two ecologically realistic rarity–extinction scenarios

(2008) Forest I. Isbell et al.   OIKOS

Functional diversity predicts overyielding effect of species combination on primary productivity

(2008) John N. Griffin et al.   OIKOS

From theory to implementation

(2008) G. C. Daily et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA