ArticleNature2018
Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability.
Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
130 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Species Interactions Determine the Importance of Response Diversity for Community Stability to Pulse Disturbances.Ecology letters · 2026Pooled it
- Meta-analysis shows both congruence and complementarity of DNA and eDNA metabarcoding to traditional methods for biological community assessment.Molecular ecology · 2022Pooled it
- Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change.Ecology letters · 2022Pooled it
- Evolution of lake microbial structure and function under climatic and anthropogenic forcings: Insights from sedimentary ancient DNA.iScience · 2026Article
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- Top-down effects dominate the relationship between plant-herbivorous insect interactions and ecosystem stability.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Predicting Climate Change-Induced Habitat Contraction ofBiology · 2026Article
- Beyond the Cascade Dams: Scale-Dependent Effects on Zooplankton Stability in River Ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Quantifying the net effect of biodiversity on ecological stability.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Role of plant litter in maintaining ecological stability of grassland following extreme rainfall.Plant diversity · 2026Article
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- Enhanced net primary productivity across Inner Mongolian grasslands despite diverging stability under climate perturbations.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Evolutionarily conserved mucus-mediated nanoplastic bioflocculation in Tetrahymena.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Biodiversity and habitat complexity buffer the destabilizing effects of anthropogenic activities on riverine fish communities.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Projected Methane Emissions From a Boreal Thermokarst Bog Are Sensitive to Carbon Substrate Availability, Distribution, and Transport Pathway Dominance.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Linking Biotic Interactions to Species Stability.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Effects of heavy metal exposure on oral microbial communities in women with different menopausal status.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Quantifying the effects of response diversity dynamics on ecosystem stability.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Microbial Inoculants Alleviate Continuous Cropping Obstacles in Eggplant Through Soil Properties and Rhizosphere Microbiota.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Lithological Inheritance Governs Spontaneous Vegetation Succession on Contaminated Soils and Indirectly Regulates Soil-Plant Uranium Transfer in High-Altitude Mine Wastelands, Southwest China.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
70 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
17 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Losses and gains in species diversity affect ecological stability
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