Assessing the roles of nitrogen, biomass, and niche dimensionality as drivers of species loss in grassland communities

Responses of plant diversity to precipitation change are strongest at local spatial scales and in drylands

(2021) Lotte Korell et al.   Nature Communications

Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments

(2021) Kaitlin Kimmel et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Grassland productivity and diversity changes in responses to N and P addition depend primarily on tall clonal and annual species in semiarid Loess Plateau

(2020) Zhifei Chen et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Synergistic effects of nitrogen and CO 2 enrichment on alpine grassland biomass and community structure

(2020) Juntao Zhu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mowing does not redress the negative effect of nutrient addition on alpha and beta diversity in a temperate grassland

(2020) Cecilia D. Molina et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nitrogen addition does not reduce the role of spatial asynchrony in stabilising grassland communities

(2019) Yunhai Zhang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Root trait-mediated belowground competition and community composition of a temperate steppe under nitrogen enrichment

(2019) Zhi Zheng et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Mowing mitigates the negative impacts of N addition on plant species diversity

(2019) Guo-Jiao Yang et al.   OECOLOGIA

Grazing Offsets Nitrogen Enrichment Effects on Species Richness by Promoting the Random Colonization of Local Species in an Alpine Grassland

(2019) Ming-Hua Song et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Enhanced Community Production rather than Structure Improvement under Nitrogen and Phosphorus Addition in Severely Degraded Alpine Meadows

(2019) Ning Zong et al.   Sustainability

Sensitivity of plant species to warming and altered precipitation dominates the community productivity in a semiarid grassland on the Loess Plateau

(2019) Fanglong Su et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Summer precipitation limits plant species richness but not overall productivity in a temperate mesic old‐field meadow

(2019) John Serafini et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Asymmetric responses of plant community structure and composition to precipitation variabilities in a semi-arid steppe

(2019) Mingxing Zhong et al.   OECOLOGIA

Eleven years of simulated deposition of nitrogen but not sulfur changed species composition and diversity in the herb stratum in a boreal forest in western Canada

(2018) Jin-Hyeob Kwak et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Toward a mechanistic understanding of the effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on grassland diversity

(2018) Niv DeMalach   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Effect of Fertilizer Additions on Plant Communities and Soil Properties in a Temperate Grassland Steppe

(2018) Feng He et al.   POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

The impact of nitrogen enrichment on grassland ecosystem stability depends on nitrogen addition level

(2018) Decao Niu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Chronic nitrogen addition induces a cascade of plant community responses with both seasonal and progressive dynamics

(2018) Xiaobing Zhou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Plant diversity is coupled with beta not alpha diversity of soil fungal communities following N enrichment in a semi-arid grassland

(2018) Wenqing Chen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant community responses to increased precipitation and belowground litter addition: Evidence from a 5-year semiarid grassland experiment

(2018) Hongxia Chen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effects of experimental N addition on plant diversity in an old-growth temperate forest

(2018) Mengying Lai et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity explains maximum variation in productivity under experimental warming, nitrogen addition, and grazing in mountain grasslands

(2018) Jiajia Liu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Fire rather than nitrogen addition affects understory plant communities in the short term in a coniferous-broadleaf mixed forest

(2018) Mengjun Hu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen enrichment on soil organisms and carbon and nitrogen mineralization in a semi-arid grassland

(2018) Dima Chen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Impacts of nitrogen addition on plant species richness and abundance: A global meta‐analysis

(2018) Gabriele Midolo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Increased rainfall and nitrogen alter colonization and extinction during postgrazing steppe succession

(2018) Hong-Wei Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Long term effect of nitrogen addition on understory community in a Chinese boreal forest

(2018) Aijun Xing et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Community composition, structure and productivity in response to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a temperate meadow

(2018) Yinan Zhao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment accelerates soil organic carbon loss in alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Ruyi Luo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Integrating species composition and leaf nitrogen content to indicate effects of nitrogen deposition

(2017) Enzai Du   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity

(2017) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Light competition explains diversity decline better than niche dimensionality

(2017) Niv DeMalach et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

High N, dry: Experimental nitrogen deposition exacerbates native shrub loss and nonnative plant invasion during extreme drought

(2017) Justin M. Valliere et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting effects of water and nutrient additions on grassland communities: A global meta-analysis

(2017) Niv DeMalach et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Nitrogen fertilization, not water addition, alters plant phylogenetic community structure in a semi-arid steppe

(2017) Xian Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Complex plant community responses to modifications of disturbance and nutrient availability in productive permanent grasslands

(2017) Frédérique Louault et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Chronic N enrichment and drought alter plant cover and community composition in a Mediterranean-type semi-arid shrubland

(2017) George L. Vourlitis   OECOLOGIA

Impacts of 120 years of fertilizer addition on a temperate grassland ecosystem

(2017) Jonathan Kidd et al.   PLoS One

A novel soil manganese mechanism drives plant species loss with increased nitrogen deposition in a temperate steppe

(2016) Qiuying Tian et al.   ECOLOGY

Teasing apart plant community responses to N enrichment: the roles of resource limitation, competition and soil microbes

(2016) Emily C. Farrer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Light asymmetry explains the effect of nutrient enrichment on grassland diversity

(2016) Niv DeMalach et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Grazing and fertilization influence plant species richness via direct and indirect pathways in an alpine meadow of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) J. Li et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE 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

Multiple mechanisms contributed to the reduced stability of Inner Mongolia grassland ecosystem following nitrogen enrichment

(2016) Wenqing Chen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

(2016) Samuel M. Simkin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrogen fertilization directly affects soil bacterial diversity and indirectly affects bacterial community composition

(2016) Jun Zeng et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nitrogen enrichment and grazing accelerate vegetation restoration in degraded grassland patches

(2015) Quan Quan et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Nitrogen Critical Loads for an Alpine Meadow Ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Ning Zong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition

(2015) Dashuan Tian et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Plant responses to nitrogen fertilization differ between post-mined and original peatlands

(2015) Aiko Nishimura et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Testing the scaling effects and mechanisms of N-induced biodiversity loss: evidence from a decade-long grassland experiment

(2015) Zhichun Lan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The effects of fertilization on the trait–abundance relationships in a Tibetan alpine meadow community

(2015) Xiaolong Zhou et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Species richness loss after nutrient addition as affected by N:C ratios and phytohormone GA3contents in an alpine meadow community

(2015) Xiaomei Sun et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Reduced compensatory effects explain the nitrogen-mediated reduction in stability of an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Ming-Hua Song et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon

(2015) Tara Joy Massad et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant community response to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment varies across an alpine tundra moisture gradient

(2015) Eve I. Gasarch et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Plant Functional Diversity Can Be Independent of Species Diversity: Observations Based on the Impact of 4-Yrs of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Additions in an Alpine Meadow

(2015) Wei Li et al.   PLoS One

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

Influence of soil properties on coastal sandplain grassland establishment on former agricultural fields

(2015) Christopher Neill et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

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

(2015) L. H. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Vascular plant abundance and diversity in an alpine heath under observed and simulated global change

(2015) Juha M. Alatalo et al.   Scientific Reports

Response of aboveground biomass and diversity to nitrogen addition along a degradation gradient in the Inner Mongolian steppe, China

(2015) Xiaotian Xu et al.   Scientific Reports

Responses of plant diversity and primary productivity to nutrient addition in a Stipa baicalensis grassland, China

(2015) Li YU et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Influences of nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon addition on plant productivity and species richness in an alpine meadow

(2015) Danghui Xu et al.   AoB Plants

The effects of fertilization on the trait–abundance relationships in a Tibetan alpine meadow community

(2015) Xiaolong Zhou et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Species richness loss after nutrient addition as affected by N:C ratios and phytohormone GA3contents in an alpine meadow community

(2015) Xiaomei Sun et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Plant Community Responses to Simultaneous Changes in Temperature, Nitrogen Availability, and Invasion

(2015) Elise S. Gornish et al.   PLoS One

Responses of Plant Community Composition and Biomass Production to Warming and Nitrogen Deposition in a Temperate Meadow Ecosystem

(2015) Tao Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Height and clonality traits determine plant community responses to fertilization

(2014) Timothy L. Dickson et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Community disassembly and invasion of remnant native grasslands under fluctuating resource supply

(2014) Pedro M. Tognetti et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Changes in species composition, diversity and biomass of herbaceous plant traits due to N amendment in a dry tropical environment of India

(2014) Punita Verma et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Response of alpine grassland to elevated nitrogen deposition and water supply in China

(2014) Kaihui Li et al.   OECOLOGIA

Nitrogen or phosphorus limitation in rich fens? - Edaphic differences explain contrasting results in vegetation development after fertilization

(2014) Casper Cusell et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment

(2014) Katja Tielbörger et al.   Nature Communications

Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow

(2013) Kechang Niu et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plant and microbial responses to nitrogen and phosphorus addition across an elevational gradient in subarctic tundra

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   ECOLOGY

Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment

(2013) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variations in N mineralization and herbaceous species diversity due to sites, seasons, and N treatments in a seasonally dry tropical environment of India

(2013) Punita Verma et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant community responses to long-term fertilization: changes in functional group abundance drive changes in species richness

(2013) Timothy L. Dickson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Multiple nutrients and herbivores interact to govern diversity, productivity, composition, and infection in a successional grassland

(2013) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   OIKOS

The effects of nutrient addition on plant species diversity in desert grassland, Xinjiang, northwest China

(2013) Xinfeng Zhao et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Combined effects of snow depth and nitrogen addition on ephemeral growth at the southern edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

(2013) LianLian Fan et al.   Journal of Arid Land

Effects of additional N on herbaceous species of desertified steppe in arid regions of China: a four-year field study

(2012) Jieqiong Su et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Decoupled long-term effects of nutrient enrichment on aboveground and belowground properties in subalpine tundra

(2012) David A. Wardle et al.   ECOLOGY

Diversity-dependent stability under mowing and nutrient addition: evidence from a 7-year grassland experiment

(2012) Haijun Yang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species loss from European semi-natural grasslands following nutrient enrichment - is it nitrogen or is it phosphorus?

(2012) Tobias Ceulemans et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Influences of land use history and short-term nitrogen addition on community structure in temperate grasslands

(2012) Z.W. Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Grassland diversity under changing productivity and the underlying mechanisms - results of a 10-yr experiment

(2012) Jaan Liira et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Direct and indirect influences of 8 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on Glomeromycota in an alpine meadow ecosystem

(2012) Yongjun Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon

(2012) Tara Joy Massad et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of experimental rainfall manipulations on Chihuahuan Desert grassland and shrubland plant communities

(2012) Selene Báez et al.   OECOLOGIA

Testing mechanisms of N-enrichment-induced species loss in a semiarid Inner Mongolia grassland: critical thresholds and implications for long-term ecosystem responses

(2012) Z. Lan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Short-term impacts of nitrogen fertilization on a montane grassland ecosystem in a South Asian biodiversity hotspot

(2012) Madhusudan P. Srinivasan et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Effects of Water and Nitrogen Addition on Species Turnover in Temperate Grasslands in Northern China

(2012) Zhuwen Xu et al.   PLoS One

Long-Term Nitrogen Addition Leads to Loss of Species Richness Due to Litter Accumulation and Soil Acidification in a Temperate Steppe

(2012) Ying Fang et al.   PLoS One

Recovery of plant species richness during long-term fertilization of a species-rich grassland

(2011) Marleen Pierik et al.   ECOLOGY

Fertilization decreases plant biodiversity even when light is not limiting

(2011) Timothy L. Dickson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant community responses to nitrogen addition and increased precipitation: the importance of water availability and species traits

(2011) HAIJUN YANG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Interactive responses of old-field plant growth and composition to warming and precipitation

(2011) Susanne S. Hoeppner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cumulative nitrogen input drives species loss in terrestrial ecosystems

(2011) An De Schrijver et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Above- and belowground responses to nitrogen addition in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2011) Laura M. Ladwig et al.   OECOLOGIA

AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioral ecology: some background, observations, and comparisons

(2010) Kenneth P. Burnham et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis

(2010) R. Bobbink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Nitrogen deposition threatens species richness of grasslands across Europe

(2010) Carly J. Stevens et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of experimental nitrogen additions on plant diversity in tropical forests of contrasting disturbance regimes in southern China

(2010) Xiankai Lu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

The Rengen Grassland Experiment: Effect of Soil Chemical Properties on Biomass Production, Plant Species Composition and Species Richness

(2010) Michal Hejcman et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Community structure and composition in response to climate change in a temperate steppe

(2010) HAIJUN YANG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of experimental nitrogen additions on plant diversity in an old-growth tropical forest

(2010) XIANKAI LU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of resource additions on species richness and ANPP in an alpine meadow community

(2010) Z. Ren et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Root-shoot competition interactions cause diversity loss after fertilization: a field experiment in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) W. Li et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Nitrogen deposition mediates the effects and importance of chance in changing biodiversity

(2010) XIMEI ZHANG et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland

(2010) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   OECOLOGIA

Linking N-driven biodiversity changes with soil N availability in a Mediterranean ecosystem

(2010) Teresa Dias et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effects of nitrogen addition on vegetation and ecosystem carbon in a semi-arid grassland

(2009) De-Hui Zeng et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Experimental dry-season N deposition alters species composition in southern Californian mediterranean-type shrublands

(2009) George L. Vourlitis et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant community and tissue chemistry responses to fertilizer and litter nutrient manipulations in a temperate grassland

(2009) Jean J. Pan et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Competition for Light Causes Plant Biodiversity Loss After Eutrophication

(2009) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

The relative importance of the species pool, productivity and disturbance in regulating grassland plant species richness: a field experiment

(2008) Timothy L. Dickson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms

(2008) Eric G. Lamb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Christopher M. Clark et al.   NATURE

Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

(2008) J. N. Galloway et al.   SCIENCE