Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

Abstract Human‐caused declines in biodiversity have stimulated intensive research on the consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosystem services and policy initiatives to preserve the functioning of ecosystems. Short‐term biodiversity experiments have documented positive effects of plant species ri...

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Main Authors: Sebastian T. Meyer, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Lionel Hertzog, Helmut Hillebrand, Alexandru Milcu, Sven Pompe, Maike Abbas, Holger Bessler, Nina Buchmann, Enrica De Luca, Christof Engels, Markus Fischer, Gerd Gleixner, Anika Hudewenz, Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Hans deKroon, Sophia Leimer, Hannah Loranger, Liesje Mommer, Yvonne Oelmann, Janneke M. Ravenek, Christiane Roscher, Tanja Rottstock, Christoph Scherber, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Stefan Scheu, Bernhard Schmid, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Andrea Staudler, Tanja Strecker, Vicky Temperton, Teja Tscharntke, Anja Vogel, Winfried Voigt, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang Wilcke, Wolfgang W. Weisser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-12-01
Series:Ecosphere
Subjects:
biodiversity ecosystem functioning (BEF)
ecosystem processes
grassland
mechanism
plant productivity
plant species richness
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1619

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