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ArticleEcology letters2026

Temporal Decoupling of Biodiversity Effects on Grassland Productivity and Stability.

Bo Meng, Yuanyuan Huang, Christiane Roscher, Takehiro Sasaki, Shaopeng Wang, Nico Eisenhauer

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Article in Ecology letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Bo MengBeijing Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Organic Farming, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, and State Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7861-3056
Yuanyuan HuangGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6990-8864
Christiane RoscherGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9301-7909
Takehiro SasakiGraduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8727-9152
Shaopeng WangInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and State Key Laboratory for Vegetation Structure, Function and Construction (VegLab), Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9430-8879
Nico EisenhauerGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0371-6720

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG' FZT 118 202548816 Ei 862/29-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft FOR 1451Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft FOR 456Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft FOR 5000National Natural Science Foundation of China 32201301National Natural Science Foundation of China 32425036National Natural Science Foundation of China 32588202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One key unresolved question in ecology is what drives temporal trends in biodiversity-stability relationships and how these trends link to ecosystem functioning. This knowledge gap reflects a limited understanding of interspecific interactions in biodiversity-stability relationships. Using plant productivity data from a 20-year grassland biodiversity experiment, complemented by a paired 5-year experiment that controlled for legacy effects, we disentangled the contributions of species-specific dynamics and interaction-dependent processes to plant community stability. Over 20 years, the stabilising effects of biodiversity strengthened, driven mainly by increasing asynchrony in species-specific dynamics rather than shifts in interaction-dependent effects. While biodiversity's stabilising effect initially increased alongside productivity, this coupling weakened over time as interaction-dependent effects on productivity and stability became decoupled. Our findings reveal the dynamic nature of biodiversity effects on plant community stability, underscoring the importance of understanding long-term ecosystem trajectories.

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BiodiversityGrasslandModels, BiologicalPopulation DynamicsSpecies SpecificityTime Factorsbiodiversityecosystem functioninginterspecific interactionstabilitytemporal dynamic

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PMID42723146
PMCPMC13562763

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