A reality check for climate change experiments: Do they reflect the real world?

Fundamental contradictions among observational and experimental estimates of non-trophic species interactions

(2018) Allison K. Barner et al.   ECOLOGY

Experimental droughts with rainout shelters: a methodological review

(2018) David L. Hoover et al.   Ecosphere

Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

(2017) Jordan R. Mayor et al.   NATURE

Species selection under long-term experimental warming and drought explained by climatic distributions

(2017) Daijun Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Experimental and observational studies find contrasting responses of soil nutrients to climate change

(2017) ZY Yuan et al.   eLife

Ecological effects of extreme drought on Californian herbaceous plant communities

(2016) Stella M. Copeland et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

(2016) Marc Estiarte et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Short-term climate change manipulation effects do not scale up to long-term legacies: effects of an absent snow cover on boreal forest plants

(2016) Gesche Blume-Werry et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2016) David A. Wardle   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation-productivity relationships: implications for climate change

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought timing differentially affects above- and belowground productivity in a mesic grassland

(2016) Elsie M. Denton et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

(2015) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Spatial and temporal aridity gradients provide poor proxies for plant-plant interactions under climate change: a large-scale experiment

(2015) Johannes Metz et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Extrapolating multi-decadal plant community changes based on medium-term experiments can be risky: evidence from high-latitude tundra

(2015) Patrick Saccone et al.   OIKOS

Complexity in Climate Change Manipulation Experiments

(2014) J. Kreyling et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

Contrasting above- and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes

(2014) Kevin R. Wilcox et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

(2014) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Belowground bud banks of tallgrass prairie are insensitive to multi-year, growing-season drought

(2014) Benjamin L. VanderWeide et al.   Ecosphere

Means and extremes: building variability into community-level climate change experiments

(2013) Ross M. Thompson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network

(2012) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

(2012) Claus Beier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Community stability does not preclude ecosystem sensitivity to chronic resource alteration

(2012) Alan K. Knapp et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

(2012) E. M. Wolkovich et al.   NATURE

Unexpected patterns of sensitivity to drought in three semi-arid grasslands

(2012) Karie Cherwin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biogeochemical and ecological feedbacks in grassland responses to warming

(2012) Zhuoting Wu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Ecological forecasting and data assimilation in a data-rich era

(2011) Yiqi Luo et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Responses of Ecosystem Carbon Cycling to Climate Change Treatments Along an Elevation Gradient

(2011) Zhuoting Wu et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

(2011) Sebastian Leuzinger et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

(2010) YIQI LUO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

(2010) ZHUOTING WU 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

Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy

(2010) Jonathan Silvertown et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Scale as a lurking factor: incorporating scale-dependence in experimental ecology

(2009) Brody Sandel et al.   OIKOS

Evolution in ecological field experiments: implications for effect size

(2007) Sharon Y. Strauss et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS