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

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Geoscience

Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

(2015) M. C. Urban   SCIENCE

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   Nature Communications

Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

(2015) Markus Lange et al.   Nature Communications

Taking a closer look: disentangling effects of functional diversity on ecosystem functions with a trait-based model across hierarchy and time

(2015) F. Holzwarth et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

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

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

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

EDITOR'S CHOICE: REVIEW: Effects of land use on plant diversity - A global meta-analysis

(2014) Katharina Gerstner et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Ecological communities are vulnerable to realistic extinction sequences

(2014) Sofia Berg et al.   OIKOS

Overlooked local biodiversity loss

(2014) B. Cardinale   SCIENCE

Overlooked local biodiversity loss--Response

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

The value of biodiversity: a humbling analysis

(2014) Mark Vellend   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

(2013) M. Vellend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

(2013) Sandra Díaz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Increase in observed net carbon dioxide uptake by land and oceans during the past 50 years

(2012) A. P. Ballantyne et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

All Is Not Loss: Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2012) Erle C. Ellis et al.   PLoS One

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

(2012) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere

(2012) S. W. Running   SCIENCE

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

(2012) P. B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

(2012) Daniel Simberloff et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Novel forests maintain ecosystem processes after the decline of native tree species

(2011) Joseph Mascaro et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems

(2011) Montserrat Vilà et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long-term natural experiment

(2011) David A. Wardle et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Nico Eisenhauer   PLANT AND SOIL

Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Species Gains and Losses

(2011) D. A. Wardle et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity effects in real ecosystems – a response to Duffy

(2010) David A Wardle et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition

(2009) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY

ABOVEGROUND AND BELOWGROUND EFFECTS OF SINGLE-TREE REMOVALS IN NEW ZEALAND RAIN FOREST

(2008) David A. Wardle et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems

(2008) Jason M Tylianakis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY