Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning

Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth?

(2012) Stefanie von Felten et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation

(2012) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

(2012) Christiane Roscher et al.   PLoS One

The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

(2012) S. Naeem et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function

(2011) Ian T. Carroll et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecosystem services, targets, and indicators for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

(2011) Charles Perrings et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity

(2011) Hans de Kroon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale   NATURE

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Aboveground–belowground interactions as a source of complementarity effects in biodiversity experiments

(2011) Nico Eisenhauer   PLANT AND SOIL

Grassland root communities: species distributions and how they are linked to aboveground abundance

(2010) Douglas A. Frank et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

Niche saturation reveals resource partitioning among consumers

(2010) Tobin D. Northfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Different but equal: the implausible assumption at the heart of neutral theory

(2010) Drew W. Purves et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Sustaining multiple ecosystem functions in grassland communities requires higher biodiversity

(2010) E. S. Zavaleta 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

Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

(2009) Forest I. Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental manipulation of soil depth alters species richness and co-occurrence in restored tallgrass prairie

(2009) Mathew E. Dornbush et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR OVERALL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

(2008) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   ECOLOGY

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Why equalising trade-offs aren’t always neutral

(2008) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real-world ecosystems

(2008) J Emmett Duffy   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Long-term persistence of a positive plant diversity-productivity relationship in the absence of legumes

(2008) Jasper van Ruijven et al.   OIKOS