Dual mechanisms regulate ecosystem stability under decade-long warming and hay harvest

Enhanced interannual precipitation variability increases plant functional diversity that in turn ameliorates negative impact on productivity

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Plant community structure regulates responses of prairie soil respiration to decadal experimental warming

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Evidence for long-term shift in plant community composition under decadal experimental warming

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Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

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Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

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Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa

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Increasing water use efficiency along the C3 to C4 evolutionary pathway: a stomatal optimization perspective

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Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

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Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

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Long-term exposure to elevated CO2 enhances plant community stability by suppressing dominant plant species in a mixed-grass prairie

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

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

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Interactive Effects of Warming and Increased Precipitation on Community Structure and Composition in an Annual Forb Dominated Desert Steppe

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Diversity-dependent stability under mowing and nutrient addition: evidence from a 7-year grassland experiment

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C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland

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Nitrogen regulation of the climate–carbon feedback: evidence from a long-term global change experiment

(2010) Shuli Niu et al.   ECOLOGY

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

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Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant diversity in New England salt marshes

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Terrestrial carbon-cycle feedback to climate warming: experimental evidence on plant regulation and impacts of biofuel feedstock harvest

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Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity-manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns?

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

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CONSEQUENCES OF DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF EVENNESS EFFECTS ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES

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Climate controls on C3vs. C4productivity in North American grasslands from carbon isotope composition of soil organic matter

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