Patterns and drivers of biodiversity-stability relationships under climate extremes

Not all droughts are created equal: the impacts of interannual drought pattern and magnitude on grassland carbon cycling

(2016) David L. Hoover et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Site-adapted admixed tree species reduce drought susceptibility of mature European beech

(2016) Jérôme Metz 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

Biodiversity and productivity entwined

(2016) Kevin Gross   NATURE

Nighttime warming enhances drought resistance of plant communities in a temperate steppe

(2016) Zhongling Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Long-term water stress leads to acclimation of drought sensitivity of photosynthetic capacity in xeric but not riparianEucalyptusspecies

(2015) Shuang-Xi Zhou et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Experiments to confront the environmental extremes of climate change

(2015) Zachary E Kayler et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Spatial and temporal aridity gradients provide poor proxies for plant-plant interactions under climate change: a large-scale experiment

(2015) Johannes Metz et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

(2015) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

(2015) Dorothea Frank et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant responses to climatic extremes: within-species variation equals among-species variation

(2015) Andrey V. Malyshev et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Simulated heat waves affected alpine grassland only in combination with drought

(2015) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Species diversity and identity effects on the water consumption of tree sapling assemblages under ample and limited water supply

(2015) Torben Lübbe et al.   OIKOS

Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community

(2015) Susan P. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What do you mean, ‘resilient’?

(2015) Dave Hodgson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Flooding disturbances increase resource availability and productivity but reduce stability in diverse plant communities

(2015) Alexandra J. Wright et al.   Nature Communications

The Agrodiversity Experiment: three years of data from a multisite study in intensively managed grasslands

(2014) Laura Kirwan et al.   ECOLOGY

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

Detection of spatially aggregated changes in temperature and precipitation extremes

(2014) E. M. Fischer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave

(2014) Nikolaos Christidis et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

(2013) Kevin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Beyond realism in climate change experiments: gradient approaches identify thresholds and tipping points

(2013) Juergen Kreyling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Invaded grassland communities have altered stability-maintenance mechanisms but equal stability compared to native communities

(2013) Brian J. Wilsey et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does Drought Influence the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Boreal Forests?

(2013) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Slow-growing species cope best with drought: evidence from long-term measurements in a tropical semi-deciduous moist forest of Central Africa

(2013) Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands

(2013) Pierre Mariotte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) H. Wayne Polley et al.   OIKOS

High richness and dense seeding enhance grassland restoration establishment but have little effect on drought response

(2012) Daniel L. Carter et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability

(2012) Christopher P.O. Reyer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Communities of different plant diversity respond similarly to drought stress: experimental evidence from field non-weeded and greenhouse conditions

(2012) Vojtěch Lanta et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Grassland Resistance and Resilience after Drought Depends on Management Intensity and Species Richness

(2012) Anja Vogel et al.   PLoS One

Agroecologically efficient agricultural systems for smallholder farmers: contributions to food sovereignty

(2011) Miguel A. Altieri et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Tree diversity enhances tree transpiration in a Panamanian forest plantation

(2011) Norbert Kunert et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecotypes of European grass species respond differently to warming and extreme drought

(2011) Carl Beierkuhnlein et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Defining the limit to resistance in a drought-tolerant grassland: long-term severe drought significantly reduces the dominant species and increases ruderals

(2011) Sarah E. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity

(2011) Anke Jentsch et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Stability of above-ground and below-ground processes to extreme drought in model grassland ecosystems: Interactions with plant species diversity and soil nitrogen availability

(2011) Juliette M.G. Bloor et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

A Multiscalar Global Drought Dataset: The SPEIbase: A New Gridded Product for the Analysis of Drought Variability and Impacts

(2010) Santiago Beguería et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

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

(2010) Emily Grman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity enhances community recovery, but not resistance, after drought

(2009) Jasper Van Ruijven et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant responsiveness to variation in precipitation and nitrogen is consistent across the compositional diversity of a California annual grassland

(2009) Samuel B. St. Clair et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Introduction. Global change and biodiversity: future challenges

(2008) P. Barnard et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2008) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil biotic processes remain remarkably stable after 100-year extreme weather events in experimental grassland and heath

(2008) Juergen Kreyling et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Drying and rewetting effects on soil microbial community composition and nutrient leaching

(2007) Helen Gordon et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY