List of works - Forest Isbell

A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers

article

A meta-analysis on decomposition quantifies afterlife effects of plant diversity as a global change driver

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Agroecology: Agroecosystem diversification

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

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

An attainable global vision for conservation and human well-being

scientific article published in 2018

An improved model to predict the effects of changing biodiversity levels on ecosystem function

article

Assessing the importance of species and their assemblages for the biodiversity‐ecosystem multifunctionality relationship

scientific article published on 9 June 2023

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

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

correction of a scholarly article

BII-Implementation: The causes and consequences of plant biodiversity across scales in a rapidly changing world

scientific article published on 5 February 2021

BUGS in the analysis of biodiversity experiments: species richness and composition are of similar importance for grassland productivity

scientific article

Bats join the ranks of oxpeckers and cleaner fish as partners in a pest-reducing mutualism

Behaviorally-mediated trophic cascade attenuated by prey use of risky places at safe times

scientific article published on 02 January 2021

Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems

article

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

scientific article published in 2014

Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application

scientific article published on 04 June 2021

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

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

scientific article

Biodiversity maintenance mechanisms differ between native and novel exotic-dominated communities

scientific article

Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

scientific article

Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance

scientific article published on 14 December 2023

Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

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

Change in functional trait diversity mediates the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability

scientific article published in 2024

Chronic fertilization and irrigation gradually and increasingly restructure grassland communities

scientific article published in 2019

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

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

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

scientific article published in 2021

Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding

scientific article published on 11 March 2024

Decomposer diversity and identity influence plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Deficits of biodiversity and productivity linger a century after agricultural abandonment

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Disentangling relationships between plant diversity and decomposition processes under forest restoration

article

Diversifying bioenergy crops increases yield and yield stability by reducing weed abundance

scientific article published on 29 October 2021

Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

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–functioning relationships across hierarchies of biological organization

scientific article published on 5 December 2023

Do not downplay biodiversity loss

scientific article published in 2022

Early positive spatial selection effects of beta-diversity on ecosystem functioning

scientific article published on 9 November 2023

Ecosystem Services

scholarly article published 25 February 2014

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

scientific article

Exacerbated nitrogen limitation ends transient stimulation of grassland productivity by increased precipitation

scientific article published in 2017

Experimental impacts of grazing on grassland biodiversity and function are explained by aridity

scientific article published on 19 August 2023

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

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

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Giving fair credits to efforts in science and policy

scientific article published in October 2023

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

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

scientific article

Grassland biodiversity can pay.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 20 March 2021

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

scientific article published in 2013

Impacts of biodiversity loss escalate through time as redundancy fades

scientific article

Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Increasing native, but not exotic, biodiversity increases aboveground productivity in ungrazed and intensely grazed grasslands ⬇️

scientific article published on December 15, 2010

Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

article

Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

article

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

scientific article

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

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

scientific article

Low multifunctional redundancy of soil fungal diversity at multiple scales

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

scientific article

Multifunctionality does not imply that all functions are positively correlated

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

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

scientific article

Nitrogen addition reduced ecosystem stability regardless of its impacts on plant diversity

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO<sub>2</sub>

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments

article

Plant ecology. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

scientific article published on April 2015

Plant genetic diversity affects multiple trophic levels and trophic interactions

scientific article published on 27 November 2022

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

article

Productivity depends more on the rate than the frequency of N addition in a temperate grassland

scientific article

Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Rapid plant species loss at high rates and at low frequency of N addition in temperate steppe

scientific article

Reversal of nitrogen-induced species diversity declines mediated by change in dominant grass and litter

scientific article published on 25 August 2018

Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

scientific article

Simulating atmospheric drought: Silica gel packets dehumidify mesocosm microclimates

scientific article published in 2024

Spatial convergent cross mapping to detect causal relationships from short time series

scientific article published on May 2015

Species interaction mechanisms maintain grassland plant species diversity

scientific article

Species interactions amplify functional group responses to elevated CO<sub>2</sub> and N enrichment in a 24‐year grassland experiment

scientific article published in 2024

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

article

Sustainability of Human Ecological Niche Construction

article published in 2014

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Testing the effects of diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality using a multivariate model

article

The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

scientific article

The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages

scientific article

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

The social costs of nitrogen

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published in December 2016

Untangling the threads of conservation: A closer look at restoration and preservation

scientific article published on 30 November 2023

When Do Ecosystem Services Depend on Rare Species?

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

β-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning

scientific article published on 26 May 2018

List of works by Forest Isbell

A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers

A meta-analysis on decomposition quantifies afterlife effects of plant diversity as a global change driver

A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

Agroecology: Agroecosystem diversification

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

An attainable global vision for conservation and human well-being

An improved model to predict the effects of changing biodiversity levels on ecosystem function

Assessing the importance of species and their assemblages for the biodiversity‐ecosystem multifunctionality relationship

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

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

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

BII-Implementation: The causes and consequences of plant biodiversity across scales in a rapidly changing world

BUGS in the analysis of biodiversity experiments: species richness and composition are of similar importance for grassland productivity

Bats join the ranks of oxpeckers and cleaner fish as partners in a pest-reducing mutualism

Behaviorally-mediated trophic cascade attenuated by prey use of risky places at safe times

Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory

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

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

Biodiversity maintenance mechanisms differ between native and novel exotic-dominated communities

Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance

Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines

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

Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony

Change in functional trait diversity mediates the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability

Chronic fertilization and irrigation gradually and increasingly restructure grassland communities

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

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

Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding

Decomposer diversity and identity influence plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning

Deficits of biodiversity and productivity linger a century after agricultural abandonment

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

Disentangling relationships between plant diversity and decomposition processes under forest restoration

Diversifying bioenergy crops increases yield and yield stability by reducing weed abundance

Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands

Diversity-dependent soil acidification under nitrogen enrichment constrains biomass productivity

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

Diversity–functioning relationships across hierarchies of biological organization

Do not downplay biodiversity loss

Early positive spatial selection effects of beta-diversity on ecosystem functioning

Ecosystem Services

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

Exacerbated nitrogen limitation ends transient stimulation of grassland productivity by increased precipitation

Experimental impacts of grazing on grassland biodiversity and function are explained by aridity

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

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

Giving fair credits to efforts in science and policy

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

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

Grassland biodiversity can pay.

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

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

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

Impacts of biodiversity loss escalate through time as redundancy fades

Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time

Increasing native, but not exotic, biodiversity increases aboveground productivity in ungrazed and intensely grazed grasslands ⬇️

Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach

Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

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

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality ⬇️

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

Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment

Low multifunctional redundancy of soil fungal diversity at multiple scales

Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes

Multifunctionality does not imply that all functions are positively correlated

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

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

Nitrogen addition reduced ecosystem stability regardless of its impacts on plant diversity

Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO<sub>2</sub>

Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO<sub>2</sub>

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

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