A decade of insights into grassland ecosystem responses to global environmental change

Biogeochemistry and Geographical Ecology: Embracing All Twenty-Five Elements Required to Build Organisms

(2016) Michael Kaspari et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Drivers of Variation in Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Plant Community Composition Differ Across a Broad Precipitation Gradient

(2016) Kimberly J. La Pierre et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Species origin affects the rate of response to inter-annual growing season precipitation and nutrient addition in four Australian native grasslands

(2016) John W. Morgan et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2016) David A. Wardle   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

(2016) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   NATURE

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

(2016) James B. Grace et al.   NATURE

The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on biodiversity–functioning relationship across ecosystems

(2016) Aleksandra M. Lewandowska et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment

(2016) Habacuc Flores-Moreno et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

(2016) Janet Franklin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

(2016) A. T. Tredennick et al.   SCIENCE

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

(2015) Carly J. Stevens et al.   ECOLOGY

Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

(2015) Jonathan W. Leff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

(2015) L. H. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

(2015) Eric W. Seabloom et al.   Nature Communications

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

(2014) Suzanne M. Prober et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Causal networks clarify productivity-richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not

(2014) James B. Grace et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands

(2014) Andrew S. MacDougall et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

(2014) Yann Hautier et al.   NATURE

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

(2014) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   NATURE

Modeling and Monitoring Terrestrial Primary Production in a Changing Global Environment: Toward a Multiscale Synthesis of Observation and Simulation

(2014) Shufen Pan et al.   Advances in Meteorology

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

(2013) Eric M. Lind et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

(2013) Eric W. Seabloom et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Regional Contingencies in the Relationship between Aboveground Biomass and Litter in the World’s Grasslands

(2013) Lydia R. O’Halloran et al.   PLoS One

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

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

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

Value of long-term ecological studies

(2012) DAVID B. LINDENMAYER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The role of nitrogen in climate change and the impacts of nitrogen–climate interactions in the United States: foreword to thematic issue

(2012) Emma C. Suddick et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Surprises and Insights from Long-Term Aquatic Data Sets and Experiments

(2012) Walter K. Dodds et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network

(2012) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Evaluating litter decomposition in earth system models with long-term litterbag experiments: an example using the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4)

(2012) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Response to Comments on "Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness"

(2012) J. B. Grace et al.   SCIENCE

Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities

(2011) Jennifer Firn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities

(2011) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and Productivity

(2011) M. R. Willig   SCIENCE

Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

(2011) P. B. Adler et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic patterns differ for native and exotic plant communities across a richness gradient in Northern California

(2010) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Understanding species richness–productivity relationships: the importance of meta-analyses

(2010) Gary G. Mittelbach   ECOLOGY

Meta-analyses and mega-mistakes: calling time on meta-analysis of the species richness–productivity relationship

(2010) Robert J. Whittaker   ECOLOGY

Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

(2010) Christoph Scherber et al.   NATURE

Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects

(2010) P. K. Thornton   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Competition-defense tradeoffs and the maintenance of plant diversity

(2010) D. V. Viola et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Top-down and bottom-up forces in mammalian herbivore – vegetation systems: an essay review

(2009) Roy Turkington   Botany

The coupling of biodiversity and productivity in phytoplankton communities: consequences for biomass stoichiometry

(2009) Maren Striebel et al.   ECOLOGY

Does productivity drive diversity or vice versa? A test of the multivariate productivity–diversity hypothesis in streams

(2009) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   ECOLOGY

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Producer Nutritional Quality Controls Ecosystem Trophic Structure

(2009) Just Cebrian et al.   PLoS One

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

(2008) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands

(2008) Christopher M. Clark et al.   NATURE

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

(2007) Erle C Ellis et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT