The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

Realistic plant species losses reduce invasion resistance in a California serpentine grassland

(2012) Paul C. Selmants et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

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

Variation in resource consumption across a gradient of increasing intra- and interspecific richness

(2011) Chad W. Hargrave et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetically diverse grasslands are associated with pairwise interspecific processes that increase biomass

(2011) John Connolly et al.   ECOLOGY

Connell and Slatyer's models of succession in the biodiversity era

(2011) E. Maggi et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity–ecosystem-function relationships

(2011) Dan F. B. Flynn 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

Ecosystem service and biodiversity trade-offs in two woody successions

(2011) Ian A. Dickie et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effect of biodiversity on economic benefits from communal lands in Namibia

(2011) Robin Naidoo et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

Annual variation of community biomass is lower in more diverse stream fish communities

(2011) Nathan R. Franssen et al.   OIKOS

Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2011) David Mouillot et al.   PLoS One

More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species

(2011) E. Allan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

(2011) P. B. Adler et al.   SCIENCE

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

A direct comparison of the consequences of plant genotypic and species diversity on communities and ecosystem function

(2010) Susan C. Cook-Patton et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant diversity and the stability of foodwebs

(2010) Nick M. Haddad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities

(2010) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Metagenomic analysis reveals a marked divergence in the structure of belowground microbial communities at elevated CO2

(2010) Zhili He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Species and genotype diversity drive community and ecosystem properties in experimental microcosms

(2010) Leigh C. Latta et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

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

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

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

(2010) Christoph Scherber et al.   NATURE

Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species

(2010) Daniel E. Schindler et al.   NATURE

Fish diversity as a determinant of ecosystem properties across multiple trophic levels

(2010) Michael P. Carey et al.   OIKOS

Biodiversity influences ecosystem functioning in aquatic angiosperm communities

(2010) Camilla Gustafsson et al.   OIKOS

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

Spectral Niche Complementarity and Carbon Dynamics in Pelagic Ecosystems

(2009) Maren Striebel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecosystem Responses to Community Disassembly

(2009) Erika Zavaleta et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Effects of Natural Enemy Biodiversity on the Suppression of Arthropod Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2009) Deborah K. Letourneau et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Effects of predator functional diversity on grassland ecosystem function

(2009) Oswald J. Schmitz   ECOLOGY

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

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

(2008) Michel Loreau et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Diversity–productivity relationships in two ecologically realistic rarity–extinction scenarios

(2008) Forest I. Isbell et al.   OIKOS

Increased Avian Diversity Is Associated with Lower Incidence of Human West Nile Infection: Observation of the Dilution Effect

(2008) John P. Swaddle et al.   PLoS One

Functional consequences of realistic biodiversity changes in a marine ecosystem

(2008) M. E. S. Bracken et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Advancing realism in biodiversity research

(2008) S NAEEM   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION