Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

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

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

Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

(2016) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prey size diversity hinders biomass trophic transfer and predator size diversity promotes it in planktonic communities

(2016) Carmen García-Comas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

(2016) J. Liang et al.   SCIENCE

Plant functional trait diversity regulates the nonlinear response of productivity to regional climate change in Tibetan alpine grasslands

(2016) Jianshuang Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative-experimental approach

(2015) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate

(2015) Xin Jing et al.   Nature Communications

Vegetation structure is as important as climate for explaining ecosystem function across Patagonian rangelands

(2015) Juan J. Gaitán et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecosystem Functions across Trophic Levels Are Linked to Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity

(2015) Patrick L. Thompson et al.   PLoS One

Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Is the relationship between algal diversity and biomass in North American lakes consistent with biodiversity experiments?

(2013) Emily K. Zimmerman et al.   OIKOS

Disentangling Biodiversity and Climatic Determinants of Wood Production

(2013) Montserrat Vilà et al.   PLoS One

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

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Yu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Exponential Decline of Deep-Sea Ecosystem Functioning Linked to Benthic Biodiversity Loss

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Diversity predicts stability and resource use efficiency in natural phytoplankton communities

(2008) Robert Ptacnik 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