Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

The insurance hypothesis posits that more diverse communities are more stable through time. Here, the authors show that plant biodiversity reduces the spatial variability of productivity in grassland communities, demonstrating that the insurance hypothesis applies also across space.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pedro Daleo, Juan Alberti, Enrique J. Chaneton, Oscar Iribarne, Pedro M. Tognetti, Jonathan D. Bakker, Elizabeth T. Borer, Martín Bruschetti, Andrew S. MacDougall, Jesús Pascual, Mahesh Sankaran, Eric W. Seabloom, Shaopeng Wang, Sumanta Bagchi, Lars A. Brudvig, Jane A. Catford, Chris R. Dickman, Timothy L. Dickson, Ian Donohue, Nico Eisenhauer, Daniel S. Gruner, Sylvia Haider, Anke Jentsch, Johannes M. H. Knops, Ylva Lekberg, Rebecca L. McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, Brent Mortensen, Timothy Ohlert, Meelis Pärtel, Pablo L. Peri, Sally A. Power, Anita C. Risch, Camila Rocca, Nicholas G. Smith, Carly Stevens, Riin Tamme, G. F. (Ciska) Veen, Peter A. Wilfahrt, Yann Hautier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37395-y

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37395-y

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