SynthesisPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2016
The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on biodiversity-functioning relationship across ecosystems.
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- Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Studying biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in experimental microcosms among islands.Ecology · 2022Article
- Impacts of land use and land cover change on the interactions among multiple soil-dependent ecosystem services (case study: Jiroft plain, Iran).Environmental geochemistry and health · 2021Article
- Taxonomic and functional diversity covary in rock pool microalgal communities despite their different drivers.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Cascading effects of climate change on plankton community structure.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Effects of nutrient supply and nutrient ratio on diversity-productivity relationships of phytoplankton in the Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Herbivore dung quality affects plant community diversity.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Consistent drivers of plant biodiversity across managed ecosystems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in long-term time series and palaeoecological records: deep sea as a test bed.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
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Abstract
Numerous studies show that increasing species richness leads to higher ecosystem productivity. This effect is often attributed to more efficient portioning of multiple resources in communities with higher numbers of competing species, indicating the role of resource supply and stoichiometry for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. Here, we merged theory on ecological stoichiometry with a framework of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning to understand how resource use transfers into primary production. We applied a structural equation model to define patterns of diversity-productivity relationships with respect to available resources. Meta-analysis was used to summarize the findings across ecosystem types ranging from aquatic ecosystems to grasslands and forests. As hypothesized, resource supply increased realized productivity and richness, but we found significant differences between ecosystems and study types. Increased richness was associated with increased productivity, although this effect was not seen in experiments. More even communities had lower productivity, indicating that biomass production is often maintained by a few dominant species, and reduced dominance generally reduced ecosystem productivity. This synthesis, which integrates observational and experimental studies in a variety of ecosystems and geographical regions, exposes common patterns and differences in biodiversity-functioning relationships, and increases the mechanistic understanding of changes in ecosystems productivity.
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