ArticleNature communications2022
Biodiversity-stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment.
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- Plant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Plant diversity within communities, not among them, stabilizes grassland productivity across spatial scales.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Asynchrony and functional diversity couple herbivore community dynamics to host plant diversity.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
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- Pathogen dilution, resource partitioning, and precipitation generate productivity benefits from plant diversity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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16 authors at 10 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the long-term lacks experimental evidence. We report temporal effects of species richness on community productivity, stability, species asynchrony, and complementarity, and how the relationships among them change over 17 years in a grassland biodiversity experiment. Productivity declined more rapidly in less diverse communities resulting in temporally strengthening positive effects of richness on productivity, complementarity, and stability. In later years asynchrony played a more important role in increasing community stability as the negative effect of richness on population stability diminished. Only during later years did species complementarity relate to species asynchrony. These results show that species complementarity and asynchrony can take more than a decade to develop strong stabilizing effects on ecosystem functioning in diverse plant communities. Thus, the mechanisms stabilizing ecosystem functioning change with community age.
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