ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments.
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- The spatial distribution of tree-tree interaction effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Forest Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs/Synergies and System Function Optimization in Karst Desertification Control.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Kelp Culture Enhances Coastal Biogeochemical Cycles by Maintaining Bacterioplankton Richness and Regulating Its Interactions.mSystems · 2023Article
- Biodiversity-stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Greater bee diversity is needed to maintain crop pollination over time.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning.ISME communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
Plant diversity has a strong impact on a plethora of ecosystem functions and services, especially ecosystem carbon (C) storage. However, the potential context-dependency of biodiversity effects across ecosystem types, environmental conditions and carbon pools remains largely unknown. In this study, we performed a meta-analysis by collecting data from 95 biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) studies across 60 sites to explore the effects of plant diversity on different C pools, including aboveground and belowground plant biomass, soil microbial biomass C and soil C content across different ecosystem types. The results showed that ecosystem C storage was significantly enhanced by plant diversity, with stronger effects on aboveground biomass than on soil C content. Moreover, the response magnitudes of ecosystem C storage increased with the level of species richness and experimental duration across all ecosystems. The effects of plant diversity were more pronounced in grasslands than in forests. Furthermore, the effects of plant diversity on belowground plant biomass increased with aridity index in grasslands and forests, suggesting that climate change might modulate biodiversity effects, which are stronger under wetter conditions but weaker under more arid conditions. Taken together, these results provide novel insights into the important role of plant diversity in ecosystem C storage across critical C pools, ecosystem types and environmental contexts.
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