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(A bit) Earlier or later is always better: Phenological shifts in consumer–resource interactions

scientific article published in 2013

A combinatorial analysis using observational data identifies species that govern ecosystem functioning.

scientific article published in August 2018

A graphical causal model for resolving species identity effects and biodiversity–ecosystem function correlations: comment

scientific article

A graphical-mechanistic approach to spatial resource competition

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

A macro‐ecological approach to predation density‐dependence

scientific article published in 2021

A mathematical synthesis of niche and neutral theories in community ecology ⬇️

scientific article published on October 12, 2010

A patch-dynamic framework for food web metacommunities

scientific article published in 2009

Abiotic and biotic determinants of coarse woody productivity in temperate mixed forests

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances

article

Above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity jointly regulate temperate forest multifunctionality along a local‐scale environmental gradient

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Agricultural land use and the sustainability of social-ecological systems

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments

scientific article

An invariability-area relationship sheds new light on the spatial scaling of ecological stability

scientific article

Arctic ecosystem structure and functioning shaped by climate and herbivore body size

article by Pierre Legagneux et al published 23 March 2014 in Nature Climate Change

Are communities saturated? On the relationship between alpha, beta and gamma diversity

scientific article published in 2000

Author Correction: General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

correction of a scholarly article

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A mechanistic model ⬇️

scientific article published on May 12, 1998

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances

scientific article published on 27 December 2004

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the mystery of the deep sea.

scientific article

Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: the insurance hypothesis

scientific article

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability across scales in metacommunities

scientific article

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms ⬇️

scientific article published on January 24, 2013

Biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning

Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application

scientific article published on 04 June 2021

Biodiversity as spatial insurance in heterogeneous landscapes

scientific article published on 20 October 2003

Biodiversity as spatial insurance: the effects of habitat fragmentation and dispersal on ecosystem functioning

Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding

scientific article published in 2008

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

scientific article

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

scientific article

Biodiversity science evolves

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Biodiversity, productivity, and the spatial insurance hypothesis revisited

scientific article

Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions

scientific article published on 03 June 2021

Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony

scientific article

Biotic regulation of non-limiting nutrient pools and coupling of biogeochemical cycles

scientific article published in 2016

Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Can Organisms Regulate Global Biogeochemical Cycles?

scientific article published in 2015

Can biomass distribution across trophic levels predict trophic cascades?

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

Can the evolution of plant defense lead to plant-herbivore mutualism?

scientific article published in August 2001

Cascading extinctions and ecosystem functioning: contrasting effects of diversity depending on food web structure

scientific article published in 2006

Cascading extinctions, functional complementarity, and selection in two-trophic-level model communities: A trait-based mechanistic approach ⬇️

scientific article published on September 8, 2010

Climate variability decreases species richness and community stability in a temperate grassland

scientific article published in 2018

Coexistence in Metacommunities: The Regional Similarity Hypothesis

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Coexistence in Metacommunities: The Regional Similarity Hypothesis

scientific article

Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Coexistence, saturation and invasion resistance in simulated plant assemblages

article

Community efficiency during succession: a test of MacArthur's minimization principle in phytoplankton communities

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Community patterns in source-sink metacommunities

scientific article

Comparing species interaction networks along environmental gradients

scientific article

Connecting models, data, and concepts to understand fragmentation's ecosystem-wide effects

article

Consequences of plant-herbivore coevolution on the dynamics and functioning of ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Consistent functional clusters explain the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem productivity in a long‐term experiment

scientific article published in 2021

Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability

scientific article published on 18 May 2021

Consumer-mediated recycling and cascading trophic interactions

scientific article published in July 2010

Context-dependency of tree species diversity, trait composition and stand structural attributes regulate temperate forest multifunctionality

scientific article published on 14 November 2020

Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

scientific article

Correction: A combinatorial analysis using observational data identifies species that govern ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Corrigendum to “Context-dependency of tree species diversity, trait composition and stand structural attributes regulate temperate forest multifunctionality” [Sci. Total Environ., 757 (2021), 143724]

scientific article published in 2023

Corrigendum to “Tree species diversity enhances plant-soil interactions in a temperate forest in northeast China” [For. Ecol. Manage. (2021) 119160]

scientific article published in 2023

Defector clustering is linked to cooperation in a pathogenic bacterium

scientific article published in November 2017

Delayed behavioural shifts undermine the sustainability of social-ecological systems

scientific article published in December 2017

Density-dependent dispersal and relative dispersal affect the stability of predator-prey metacommunities

scientific article published on 16 July 2010

Disentangling local, metapopulation, and cross-community sources of stabilization and asynchrony in metacommunities

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Disentangling multiple predator effects in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research

scientific article

Dispersal and metapopulation stability

scientific article published in October 2015

Divergent above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity pathways mediate disturbance impacts on temperate forest multifunctionality

scientific article published on 20 March 2021

Diversitas: an international programme of biodiversity science

scientific article published in 1999

Diversity of plant-pollinator interaction and stability of ecosystems

scientific article published in October 2006

Diversity spurs diversification in ecological communities

scientific article

Diversity without representation

scientific article published in July 2006

Do not downplay biodiversity loss

scientific article published in 2022

Do we have to choose between feeding the human population and conserving nature? Modelling the global dependence of people on ecosystem services

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Does complementary resource use enhance ecosystem functioning? A model of light competition in plant communities

scientific article published in January 2007

Does functional redundancy exist?

scientific article published on 16 February 2004

Dynamics of a three-species food chain model with adaptive traits

scientific article published on 03 December 2008

ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

scientific article published in 2005

EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE ⬇️

scholarly article by D. U. Hooper published in February 2005

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of niche construction for its agent

scientific article

Ecological autocatalysis: a central principle in ecosystem organization?

scientific article published in 2018

Ecological constraints increase the climatic debt in forests

scientific article

Ecosystem stability in space: α, β and γ variability

scientific article

Ecotone formation through ecological niche construction: the role of biodiversity and species interactions

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Effect of Herbivory and Plant Species Replacement on Primary Production

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems: a summary of 164 experimental manipulations of species richness

scientific article published in 2009

Emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in an evolutionary food-web model

article

Emergence of nutrient co-limitation through movement in stoichiometric meta-ecosystems

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

Environmental responses, not species interactions, determine synchrony of dominant species in semiarid grasslands

scientific article published on February 2017

Erratum: Corrigendum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments

scientific article published in Nature

Estimates of species extinctions from species-area relationships strongly depend on ecological context

article

Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity

scientific article

Evolution of body size in food webs: does the energetic equivalence rule hold?

scientific article published in February 2006

Evolution of dispersal in a predator-prey metacommunity

scientific article

Evolution of local facilitation in arid ecosystems

scientific article

Evolutionary emergence of size-structured food webs

scientific article

Evolutionary responses to environmental change: trophic interactions affect adaptation and persistence

scientific article published in April 2015

Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

scientific article published in 2022

Fingerprints of High-Dimensional Coexistence in Complex Ecosystems

scientific article

Food-web constraints on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships

scientific article

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

scientific article

Functional diversity of plant-pollinator interaction webs enhances the persistence of plant communities

scientific article

GENERAL STABILIZING EFFECTS OF PLANT DIVERSITY ON GRASSLAND PRODUCTIVITY AT MULTIPLE SITES THROUGH POPULATION ASYNCHRONY AND OVERYIELDING

article

GRAZING OPTIMIZATION AND NUTRIENT CYCLING: WHEN DO HERBIVORES ENHANCE PLANT PRODUCTION?

scientific article (publication date: October 1998)

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

General relationships between consumer dispersal, resource dispersal and metacommunity diversity ⬇️

scientific article

General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding.

scientific article published in August 2010

Generic assembly patterns in complex ecological communities

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Global evidence of positive biodiversity effects on spatial ecosystem stability in natural grasslands

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes

scientific article published on 5 April 2011

Global relationship between phytoplankton diversity and productivity in the ocean.

scientific article

Grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in the era of science–policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks

scientific article

Grazing optimization, nutrient cycling, and spatial heterogeneity of plant-herbivore interactions: should a palatable plant evolve?

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Habitat choice meets thermal specialization: Competition with specialists may drive suboptimal habitat preferences in generalists

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Habitat fragmentation and food security in crop pollination systems

scientific article published on 22 May 2021

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

scientific article

How community adaptation affects biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships

scientific article published on 31 May 2020

How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability

scientific article published on 20 March 2021

How ecological feedbacks between human population and land cover influence sustainability

scientific article published on 17 August 2018

How ecosystems recover from pulse perturbations: A theory of short- to long-term responses

scientific article

How to Integrate Experimental Research Approaches in Ecological and Environmental Studies: AnaEE France as an Example

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

How to estimate complementarity and selection effects from an incomplete sample of species

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Human impacts on minimum subsets of species critical for maintaining ecosystem structure

scientific article published in 2013

Immigration and local competition in herbaceous plant communities: a three-year seed-sowing experiment

scientific article published on 09 January 2004

Immigration and the Maintenance of Local Species Diversity

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity

scientific article

Incisor size and community structure in rodents: Two tests of the role of competition

article

Inferring Size-Based Functional Responses From the Physical Properties of the Medium

scientific article published on 11 January 2022

Intra- and interspecific density-dependent dispersal in an aquatic prey-predator system

scientific article published in May 2007

Is local biodiversity declining or not? A summary of the debate over analysis of species richness time trends

scientific article published on 07 January 2018

Keystone Predation and Plant Species Coexistence: The Role of Carnivore Hunting Mode ⬇️

scientific article published on November 22, 2010

Limitations of entropy maximization in ecology

scientific article published on 23 September 2010

Linking biodiversity and ecosystems: towards a unifying ecological theory

scientific article

Linking ecosystem and parasite ecology

Linking scaling laws across eukaryotes

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales.

scientific article

Local densities connect spatial ecology to game, multilevel selection and inclusive fitness theories of cooperation

scientific article published on 20 June 2015

Local facilitation, bistability and transitions in arid ecosystems

scientific article

Measuring resilience is essential if we are to understand it

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Meta-ecosystem dynamics and functioning on finite spatial networks

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

Metacommunity theory explains the emergence of food web complexity

scientific article

Microbial diversity, producer-decomposer interactions and ecosystem processes: a theoretical model.

scientific article published in February 2001

Modeling the direct and indirect effects of copper on phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions

scientific article published on 7 March 2015

Modelling nutrient-periphyton dynamics in streams: the importance of transient storage zones

scientific article published in 1995

Mowing exacerbates the loss of ecosystem stability under nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland

scientific article published on August 2017

Multiple abiotic and biotic pathways shape biomass demographic processes in temperate forests

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Multiple metrics of diversity have different effects on temperate forest functioning over succession

scientific article

Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions

scientific article published on 20 May 2022

Niche and fitness differences relate the maintenance of diversity to ecosystem function: comment

scientific article

Niche construction in the light of niche theory ⬇️

scientific article published on November 15, 2010

Nitrogen addition does not reduce the role of spatial asynchrony in stabilising grassland communities

article

Nitrogen enrichment weakens ecosystem stability through decreased species asynchrony and population stability in a temperate grassland.

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

Nontrophic interactions, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning: an interaction web model

scientific article

Not even wrong: Comment by Loreau and Hector

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Nutrient enrichment and food chains: can evolution buffer top-down control?

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Nutrient flows between ecosystems can destabilize simple food chains

scientific article published on 22 June 2010

Nutrient-induced shifts of dominant species reduce ecosystem stability via increases in species synchrony and population variability

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Nutrient-limited food webs with up to three trophic levels: feasibility, stability, assembly rules, and effects of nutrient enrichment

scientific article published on 27 October 2005

On testing temporal niche differentiation in carabid beetles

scientific article

Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Overyielding in grassland communities: testing the sampling effect hypothesis with replicated biodiversity experiments

scientific article published in 2002

Parallel ecological networks in ecosystems

scientific article

Patch Dynamics, Persistence, and Species Coexistence in Metaecosystems

article

Patchiness in a microhabitat chip affects evolutionary dynamics of bacterial cooperation

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Phytoplankton diversity affects biomass and energy production differently during community development

scientific article published in 2021

Phytoplankton functional diversity increases ecosystem productivity and stability

scholarly article by S.M. Vallina et al published October 2017 in Ecological Modelling

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

scientific article

Plant species richness and community productivity: why the mechanism that promotes coexistence matters

scientific article published in 2002

Plant-herbivore interactions and ecological stoichiometry: when do herbivores determine plant nutrient limitation?

scientific article published in 2001

Plant-herbivore-decomposer stoichiometric mismatches and nutrient cycling in ecosystems.

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Predator avoidance and foraging for food shape synchrony and response to perturbations in trophic metacommunities

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

article

Publisher Correction: Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference

scientific article published on 12 July 2023

Pyramids and cascades: a synthesis of food chain functioning and stability

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

article

Reconciling biodiversity conservation, food production and farmers' demand in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 24 November 2019

Reconciling empirical ecology with neutral community models

scientific article

Regulation of Redfield ratios in the deep ocean

scientific article published in 2015

Relationships among ecological traits of wild bee communities along gradients of habitat amount and fragmentation

scientific article published in 2016

Resilience, reactivity and variability: A mathematical comparison of ecological stability measures

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Robustness of mutualistic networks under phenological change and habitat destruction

scientific article published in 2014

Scale dependence of the diversity-stability relationship in a temperate grassland.

scientific article published in May 2018

Scale‐dependent shifts in functional and phylogenetic structure of Mediterranean island plant communities over two centuries

scientific article published on 23 June 2021

Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships: the role of environmental heterogeneity in space and time

scientific article published in 2021

Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Seasonal Patterns in Species Diversity Across Biomes

scientific article published in 2019

Seasonal patterns in species diversity across biomes

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

Separating Sampling and Other Effects in Biodiversity Experiments

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

Source and sink dynamics in meta-ecosystems

scientific article published in July 2010

Spatial ecological networks: planning for sustainability in the long-term

scientific article published in December 2017

Spatial evolutionary dynamics produce a negative cooperation-population size relationship

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Spatial flows and the regulation of ecosystems

scientific article published on 19 April 2004

Spatial structure and the survival of an inferior competitor: a theoretical model of neighbourhood competition in plants

scientific article

Species dispersal and biodiversity in human-dominated metacommunities

scholarly article by David W Shanafelt et al published 14 November 2018 in Journal of Theoretical Biology

Species richness and the temporal stability of biomass production: a new analysis of recent biodiversity experiments

scientific article

Species richness, temporal variability and resistance of biomass production in a Mediterranean grassland

scientific article published in 2005

Species synchrony and its drivers: neutral and nonneutral community dynamics in fluctuating environments

scientific article published in August 2008

Stability and synchrony across ecological hierarchies in heterogeneous metacommunities: linking theory to data

scientific article published in 2019

Stability trophic cascades in food chains.

scientific article

Stoichiometric constraints on resource use, competitive interactions, and elemental cycling in microbial decomposers

scientific article published on 6 April 2007

Subsidy hypothesis and strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems

scientific article published on 16 August 2008

Superorganisms or loose collections of species? A unifying theory of community patterns along environmental gradients

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Sustainability of Human Ecological Niche Construction

article published in 2014

Sustainable Land-use Management Under Biodiversity Lag Effects

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities

scientific article published in 2021

Synchrony and Stability in Trophic Metacommunities: When Top Predators Navigate in a Heterogeneous World

scientific article published on 15 July 2022

Temperature Modifies Consumer-Resource Interaction Strength Through Its Effects on Biological Rates and Body Mass

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Temporal stability of aboveground biomass is governed by species asynchrony in temperate forests

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

Testing MacArthur's minimisation principle: do communities minimise energy wastage during succession?

scientific article published on 20 May 2018

The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities

article

The Impact of Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Disturbances on Ecosystem Stability

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

The analysis of biodiversity experiments: from pattern toward mechanism

article

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

scientific article

The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity

scientific article

The hidden role of multi‐trophic interactions in driving diversity–productivity relationships

scientific article published on 30 November 2021

The inherent multidimensionality of temporal variability: how common and rare species shape stability patterns

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

The mechanics of predator–prey interactions: First principles of physics predict predator–prey size ratios

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published in 2004

The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

scientific article

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs

scientific article published on 14 November 2005

The relationship between the spatial scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem stability.

scientific article

The strength of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship depends on spatial scale

scientific article published in 2018

The three regimes of spatial recovery

scholarly article by Yuval R Zelnik et al published February 2019 in Ecology

Thermal mismatches in biological rates determine trophic control and biomass distribution under warming

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Trade-offs in the provisioning and stability of ecosystem services in agroecosystems

scholarly article by Daniel Montoya et al published March 2019 in Ecological Applications

Tree species diversity enhances plant-soil interactions in a temperate forest in northeast China

scientific article published in 2021

Trophic interactions and the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem stability

scientific article

Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Understanding the value of plant diversity for ecosystem functioning through niche theory

scientific article published in December 2016

Unequal access to resources undermines global sustainability

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Unifying sources and sinks in ecology and Earth sciences

scientific article

Variability in interaction strength and implications for biodiversity

scientific article published in 2002

When microbes and consumers determine the limiting nutrient of autotrophs: a theoretical analysis.

scientific article published in February 2009

Which functional processes control the short-term effect of grazing on net primary production in grasslands?

scientific article published in September 2001

Why do forests respond differently to nitrogen deposition? A modelling approach

scientific article published in 2020

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