Modern causal inference approaches to investigate biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships

Detecting and quantifying the causal relations of ecosystem functioning is a challenging endeavor. A global study on grasslands illustrates how reasoning about underlying assumptions, from confounding and nonlinearity to fundamental questions of determinism, is key to unlocking the potential of mode...

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Main Author: Jakob Runge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37546-1