Functional diversity increases ecological stability in a grazed grassland

Transitions and invasion along a grazing gradient in experimental California grasslands

(2016) Claudia Stein et al.   ECOLOGY

Lagging behind: have we overlooked previous-year rainfall effects in annual grasslands?

(2016) Joan Dudney et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments

(2015) Melinda D. Smith et al.   OECOLOGIA

Resource colimitation governs plant community responses to altered precipitation

(2015) Anu Eskelinen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

(2014) Patricia Balvanera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Do subordinate species punch above their weight? Evidence from above- and below-ground

(2014) Pierre Mariotte   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evaluating Ecosystem Services Provided by Non-Native Species: An Experimental Test in California Grasslands

(2014) Claudia Stein et al.   PLoS One

Species Richness and the Temporal Stability of Biomass Production: A New Analysis of Recent Biodiversity Experiments

(2013) Kevin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient

(2013) Lauren M. Hallett et al.   ECOLOGY

Single-trait functional indices outperform multi-trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape

(2013) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands

(2013) Pierre Mariotte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits improve diversity-based predictions of temporal stability of grassland productivity

(2013) H. Wayne Polley et al.   OIKOS

Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change

(2012) Akira S. Mori et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfall

(2012) Carlos P. Carmona et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Assessing the Use of Functional Diversity as a Measure of Ecological Resilience in Arid Rangelands

(2011) Verónica Chillo et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate change effects on plant biomass alter dominance patterns and community evenness in an experimental old-field ecosystem

(2010) PAUL KARDOL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation

(2010) Brody Sandel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Soil Carbon Pools in California’s Annual Grassland Ecosystems

(2010) Whendee L. Silver et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Rethinking Ecosystem Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

(2010) Isabelle M. Côté et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities

(2009) Andrew Gonzalez et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Management applicability of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis across Mongolian rangeland ecosystems

(2009) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Temporal variability and nestedness in California grassland species composition

(2009) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

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

Recommendations for Development of Resilience-Based State-and-Transition Models

(2008) D.D. Briske et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management