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African mammals, foodwebs, and coexistence

scientific article

Agricultural and biofuel implications of a species diversity experiment with native perennial grassland plants

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Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices

scientific article (publication date: 8 August 2002)

Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments

article by J Adam Langley et al published 18 October 2018 in Global Change Biology

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Author Correction: Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

BIOLOGICAL WEED CONTROL VIA NUTRIENT COMPETITION: POTASSIUM LIMITATION OF DANDELIONS

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Benefits of intensive agricultural intercropping

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

scientific article published in 2014

Biodiversity and decomposition in experimental grassland ecosystems

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Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

scientific article published in June 2006

Biodiversity and stability in grasslands

scientific article published in Nature

Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion

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Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

scientific article

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

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Biodiversity loss threatens human well-being

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Biodiversity, Stability, and Productivity in Competitive Communities

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony

scientific article

Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

CO2, nitrogen, and diversity differentially affect seed production of prairie plants.

scientific article published in July 2009

COMMUNITY INVASIBILITY, RECRUITMENT LIMITATION, AND GRASSLAND BIODIVERSITY

scientific article (publication date: 1997)

Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input high-diversity grassland biomass

scientific article published in December 2006

Challenges in the Quest for Keystones

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Chronic fertilization and irrigation gradually and increasingly restructure grassland communities

scientific article published in 2019

Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasoline

scientific article (publication date: 10 February 2009)

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

scientific article published on 6 September 2024

Climate warming promotes species diversity, but with greater taxonomic redundancy, in complex environments

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

Community assembly and invasion: an experimental test of neutral versus niche processes ⬇️

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Community diversity outweighs effect of warming on plant colonization

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice

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Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats

scientific article (publication date: 1994)

Competition and Coexistence in Terrestrial Plants

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Consequences of elevated temperatures on legume biomass and nitrogen cycling in a field warming and biodiversity experiment in a North American prairie

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Constraints and Tradeoffs: Toward a Predictive Theory of Competition and Succession

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Contrasting effects of plant richness and composition on insect communities: a field experiment

scientific article published in July 2001

Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2005

DOES METABOLIC THEORY APPLY TO COMMUNITY ECOLOGY? IT'S A MATTER OF SCALE

scientific article published in 2004

Deficits of biodiversity and productivity linger a century after agricultural abandonment

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Diversification, Biotic Interchange, and the Universal Trade-Off Hypothesis ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Diversity and stability in plant communities (Reply)

scientific article published in Nature

Diversity decreases invasion via both sampling and complementarity effects

article by Joseph E. Fargione & David Tilman published 12 April 2005 in Ecology Letters

Diversity of plant evolutionary lineages promotes arthropod diversity.

scientific article

Diversity-dependent soil acidification under nitrogen enrichment constrains biomass productivity

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems.

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Diversity-stability relationships: statistical inevitability or ecological consequence?

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Do species and functional groups differ in acquisition and use of C, N and water under varying atmospheric CO2 and N availability regimes? A field test with 16 grassland species

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Does diversity beget stability?

scientific article published in Nature

Drought and biodiversity in Grasslands

scientific article published in February 1992

Dynamics of Soil Nitrogen and Carbon Accumulation for 61 Years after Agricultural Abandonment

scientific article published in 2000

Dynamics of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae during old field succession

scientific article published on May 1991

EFFECTS OF GRASSLAND PLANT SPECIES DIVERSITY, ABUNDANCE, AND COMPOSITION ON FOLIAR FUNGAL DISEASE

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Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity-productivity relationship in an N-limited grassland.

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Ecology: Diversity breeds complementarity

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Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding

scientific article published on 7 March 2024

Effects of plant diversity, N fertilization, and elevated carbon dioxide on grassland soil N cycling in a long-term experiment

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Effects of plant species richness on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity

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Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Energy. Beneficial biofuels--the food, energy, and environment trilemma

scientific article

Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels

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Erratum: Corrigendum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

scientific article published in Nature

Experimental tests of the dependence of arthropod diversity on plant diversity

scientific article published in November 1998

FIRE SUPPRESSION AND ECOSYSTEM CARBON STORAGE

scientific article published in 2000

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

scientific article published in The Lancet

Food webs obscure the strength of plant diversity effects on primary productivity

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Food-web composition and plant diversity control foliar nutrient content and stoichiometry

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From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experiment

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Functional traits, productivity and effects on nitrogen cycling of 33 grassland species

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Further re-analyses looking for effects of phylogenetic diversity on community biomass and stability

scholarly article by Bradley Cardinale et al published 23 September 2015 in Functional Ecology

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

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Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Global environmental impacts of agricultural expansion: the need for sustainable and efficient practices

scientific article

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

scientific article (publication date: 13 December 2011)

Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Global protected areas seem insufficient to safeguard half of the world's mammals from human-induced extinction

scientific article published in 2022

Grassland biodiversity can pay.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Grassland ecosystem recovery after soil disturbance depends on nutrient supply rate

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimension

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Habitat Destruction, Dispersal, and Deterministic Extinction in Competitive Communities

scientific article published in 1997

Habitat destruction and the extinction debt

scientific article published in Nature

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

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Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture

scientific article published in 2023

Human-caused environmental change: impacts on plant diversity and evolution

scientific article (publication date: 8 May 2001)

Identifying mechanisms that structure ecological communities by snapping model parameters to empirically observed tradeoffs

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Impacts of biodiversity loss escalate through time as redundancy fades

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Interactive effects of fertilization and disturbance on community structure and resource availability in an old-field plant community

scientific article published on 01 September 1991

Interspecific competition among grasshoppers and their effect on plant abundance in experimental field environments

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Introduced species that overcome life history tradeoffs can cause native extinctions. ⬇️

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Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species ⬇️

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Invasions of equilibria: tests of resource competition using two species of algae

scientific article published on 01 February 1984

Is fertilization efficiency misleading?

scientific article published in Nature

Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

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Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Linkages between plant functional composition, fine root processes and potential soil N mineralization rates

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Linking ecosystem and parasite ecology

Little bluestem litter dynamics in Minnesota old fields

scientific article published in June 1987

Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands

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Lost in trait space: species-poor communities are inflexible in properties that drive ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2019

Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment

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Mechanisms responsible for the positive diversity-productivity relationship in Minnesota grasslands

scientific article published in 2004

Mechanistically derived dispersal kernels explain species-level patterns of recruitment and succession

scientific article published on 18 October 2018

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

National food production stabilized by crop diversity

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Nexus approaches to global sustainable development

scholarly article published September 2018

Niche differences in phenology and rooting depth promote coexistence with a dominant C4 bunchgrass

scientific article published on 24 March 2005

Niche tradeoffs, neutrality, and community structure: a stochastic theory of resource competition, invasion, and community assembly ⬇️

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Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2.

scientific article published on April 2006

Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in four Minnesota old fields

scientific article published on 01 March 1987

Non-neutral patterns of species abundance in grassland communities

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Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

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Old-Field Succession on a Minnesota Sand Plain

scientific article published in 1987

Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

scientific article published in Nature

Oscillations and chaos in the dynamics of a perennial grass

scientific article published in Nature

PLANT DIVERSITY, SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: ARE THERE ANY LINKS?

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Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability

scholarly article by Marc W. Cadotte et al published August 2012 in Ecology

Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: theoretical considerations

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Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture

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Plant diversity and the stability of foodwebs ⬇️

scientific article published on November 12, 2010

Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability

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Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

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Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

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Plant diversity effects on soil microbial functions and enzymes are stronger than warming in a grassland experiment

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Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition

scientific article published on 12 April 2001

Plant diversity increases resistance to invasion in the absence of covarying extrinsic factors

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Plant ecology. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

scientific article published on April 2015

Plant species loss decreases arthropod diversity and shifts trophic structure

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Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function

scientific article published on 14 May 2018

Plant succession and gopher disturbance along an experimental gradient

scientific article published in December 1983

Pocket gophers (Geomys bursarius), vegetation, and soil nitrogen along a successional sere in east central Minnesota

scientific article published on 01 May 1987

Point Source Ammonia Emissions are Having a Detrimental Impact On Prairie Vegetation

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

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Predicting overfishing and extinction threats in multispecies fisheries

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Predictions of species interactions from consumer-resource theory: experimental tests with grasshoppers and plants

scientific article published in July 1993

Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems

scientific article published in February 1996

QUADRATIC VARIATION IN OLD-FIELD SPECIES RICHNESS ALONG GRADIENTS OF DISTURBANCE AND NITROGEN

scientific article (publication date: February 2002)

Range contraction enables harvesting to extinction

scientific article

Recovery of plant diversity following N cessation: effects of recruitment, litter, and elevated N cycling ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Reply to Le Pape et al.: Management is key to preventing marine extinctions

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Resistance of soil biota and plant growth to disturbance increases with plant diversity

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Resource availability controls fungal diversity across a plant diversity gradient

scientific article published in October 2006

Resource availability underlies the plant-fungal diversity relationship in a grassland ecosystem

scientific article

Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions

scientific article published in November 2013

Resource use patterns predict long-term outcomes of plant competition for nutrients and light

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Response of Microtus pennsylvanicus to vegetation fertilized with various nutrients, with particular emphasis on sodium and nitrogen concentrations in plant tissues

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Response to Comment on "Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass"

scientific article published in Science

Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment

scientific article published in 2013

SPECIES RESPONSES TO NITROGEN FERTILIZATION IN HERBACEOUS PLANT COMMUNITIES, AND ASSOCIATED SPECIES TRAITSEcological ArchivesE089-070

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Seasonal Variation in the NDVI–Species Richness Relationship in a Prairie Grassland Experiment (Cedar Creek)

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Seed Banks and Seedling Establishment on an Experimental Productivity Gradient

scientific article published in 1996

Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality

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Shifting grassland plant community structure drives positive interactive effects of warming and diversity on aboveground net primary productivity

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Simple Rules for Interspecific Dominance in Systems with Exploitative and Apparent Competition

scientific article (publication date: November 1994)

Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Soil carbon sequestration in prairie grasslands increased by chronic nitrogen addition

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Soil fertility increases with plant species diversity in a long-term biodiversity experiment

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Spatial Models of Competition

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Species Loss and Ecosystem Functioning: Effects of Species Identity and Community Composition

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Species and functional group diversity independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to CO2 and N.

scientific article published on 25 June 2004

Species effects on nitrogen cycling: a test with perennial grasses

scientific article published in October 1990

Species fragmentation or area loss?

Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies

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Sustainability. Paying for ecosystem services--promise and peril

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Sustainable intensification of high-diversity biomass production for optimal biofuel benefits

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

THE ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGES IN BIODIVERSITY: A SEARCH FOR GENERAL PRINCIPLES101

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Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

The Ecological Consequences of Changes in Biodiversity: A Search for General Principles

scientific article published in 1999

The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes

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The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

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The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage.

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The effects of long-term nitrogen loading on grassland insect communities

scientific article published in July 2000

The greening of the green revolution

scientific article published in Nature

The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in species invasions.

scientific article published on January 2007

The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

scientific article published in 2004

The recovery of plant community composition following passive restoration across spatial scales

scientific article published on 6 February 2023

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 5 August 2019

Traits linked with species invasiveness and community invasibility vary with time, stage and indicator of invasion in a long-term grassland experiment

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Tree diversity in relation to maximum tree height: evidence for the harshness hypothesis of species diversity gradients

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Tree diversity, tree height and environmental harshness in eastern and western North America

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Using phylogenetic, functional and trait diversity to understand patterns of plant community productivity

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Variation in growth rate and ecophysiology among 34 grassland and savanna species under contrasting N supply: a test of functional group differences

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correction: Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

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