Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands.

The diversity-stability hypothesis states that current losses of biodiversity can impair the ability of an ecosystem to dampen the effect of environmental perturbations on its functioning. Using data from a long-term and comprehensive biodiversity experiment, we quantified the temporal stability of...

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Main Authors: Raphaël Proulx, Christian Wirth, Winfried Voigt, Alexandra Weigelt, Christiane Roscher, Sabine Attinger, Jussi Baade, Romain L Barnard, Nina Buchmann, François Buscot, Nico Eisenhauer, Markus Fischer, Gerd Gleixner, Stefan Halle, Anke Hildebrandt, Esther Kowalski, Annely Kuu, Markus Lange, Alex Milcu, Pascal A Niklaus, Yvonne Oelmann, Stephan Rosenkranz, Alexander Sabais, Christoph Scherber, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Stefan Scheu, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Jens Schumacher, Guido Schwichtenberg, Jean-François Soussana, Vicky M Temperton, Wolfgang W Weisser, Wolfgang Wilcke, Bernhard Schmid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20967213/?tool=EBI