Climate variability decreases species richness and community stability in a temperate grassland

Moisture availability limits subalpine tree establishment

(2018) Robert A. Andrus et al.   ECOLOGY

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments

(2017) Kevin R. Wilcox et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Role of Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interaction on Future Hot Spells over North America as Simulated by the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5)

(2017) G. T. Diro et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Scale dependence of the diversity-stability relationship in a temperate grassland

(2017) Yunhai Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate variability affects the germination strategies exhibited by arid land plants

(2017) Sarah Barga et al.   OECOLOGIA

On detecting ecological impacts of extreme climate events and why it matters

(2017) Andrew R. Solow   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantitative and detailed spatiotemporal patterns of drought in China during 2001–2013

(2017) Lei Zhou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production

(2017) Zhiyuan Ma et al.   Nature Communications

Human-induced changes in the distribution of rainfall

(2017) Aaron E. Putnam et al.   Science Advances

Delayed autumn phenology in the Northern Hemisphere is related to change in both climate and spring phenology

(2016) Qiang Liu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nitrogen enrichment weakens ecosystem stability through decreased species asynchrony and population stability in a temperate grassland

(2016) Yunhai Zhang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets

(2016) Sonia I. Seneviratne et al.   NATURE

Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production

(2016) Corey Lesk et al.   NATURE

Intact ecosystems provide best defence against climate change

(2016) Tara G. Martin et al.   Nature Climate Change

More extreme precipitation in the world’s dry and wet regions

(2016) Markus G. Donat et al.   Nature Climate Change

Observed heavy precipitation increase confirms theory and early models

(2016) E. M. Fischer et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

(2015) Laureano A. Gherardi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Enhanced precipitation variability decreases grass- and increases shrub-productivity

(2015) Laureano A. Gherardi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Productivity depends more on the rate than the frequency of N addition in a temperate grassland

(2015) Yunhai Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

(2014) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impact of Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions on Surface Temperature Distribution

(2014) Alexis Berg et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming

(2014) D. A. Vasseur et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Natural climate variability and future climate policy

(2014) Katharine L. Ricke et al.   Nature Climate Change

Pause for thought

(2014) Ed Hawkins 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

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

(2013) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Timing of climate variability and grassland productivity

(2012) J. M. Craine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global changes in extreme events: regional and seasonal dimension

(2011) Boris Orlowsky et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

A climatically extreme year has large impacts on C4 species in tallgrass prairie ecosystems but only minor effects on species richness and other plant functional groups

(2011) John A. Arnone et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

(2011) Seung-Ki Min et al.   NATURE

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

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

Phenology Feedbacks on Climate Change

(2009) J. Penuelas et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Michel Loreau et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change

(2008) A. E. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA