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A Synthesis is Emerging between Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function and Ecological Resilience Research: Reply to Mori

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project

scientific article (publication date: 27 November 2011)

A linear model method for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments

scientific article

A million and more trees for science

scientific article published in 2018

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

article

A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

article

A trait-based trade-off between growth and mortality: evidence from 15 tropical tree species using size-specific relative growth rates

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Abundance distributions for tree species in Great Britain: A two-stage approach to modeling abundance using species distribution modeling and random forest.

scientific article published on 22 January 2017

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Analysis of variance with unbalanced data: an update for ecology & evolution

scientific article

Applied ecology: How to get even with pests

scientific article published in July 2010

Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

scientific article

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

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

scientific article

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity: implications for carbon storage

scientific article published in 2002

Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding

scientific article published in 2008

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients

scientific article

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit

scholarly article by Sandra Myrna Díaz et al published October 2009 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

scientific article

Biotic and abiotic drivers of soil microbial functions across tree diversity experiments

preprint

Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony

scientific article

Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Tropical Lowland Dipterocarp Rainforests in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

scientific article published on January 3, 2012

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

scientific article published in 2023

Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

scientific article published in 2022

Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

scientific article published in Science

Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

article

Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication

scientific article

Conclusion: applying South East Asia Rainforest Research Programme science to land-use management policy and practice in a changing landscape and climate

scientific article (publication date: 27 November 2011)

Contrasting nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics of tropical tree seedlings under water deficit and variability.

scientific article

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

scientific article

Conventional functional classification schemes underestimate the relationship with ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2005

Differences in light interception in grass monocultures predict short-term competitive outcomes under productive conditions

scientific article

Differential growth responses in seedlings of ten species of Dipterocarpaceae to experimental shading and defoliation

article

Differential responses of community‐level functional traits to mid‐ and late‐season experimental drought in a temperate grassland

scientific article published in 2024

Diverse marsh plant communities are more consistently productive across a range of different environmental conditions through functional complementarity

article

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

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Do the rich get richer? Varying effects of tree species identity and diversity on the richness of understory taxa.

scientific article

Does restoring native forest restore ecosystem functioning? Evidence from a large‐scale reforestation project in the Scottish Highlands

scientific article published on 20 August 2021

Ecology. Darwin and the first ecological experiment

scientific article

Ecology: diversity favours productivity

scientific article published in April 2011

Effects of dominance and diversity on productivity along Ellenberg's experimental water table gradients

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

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 seed predators of different body size on seed mortality in Bornean logged forest

scientific article

Erratum: Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments

scientific article published in Nature

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Experimental drought reduces the productivity and stability of a calcareous grassland

scientific article published in 2024

Fast and furious: Early differences in growth rate drive short-term plant dominance and exclusion under eutrophication

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Forest diversity promotes individual tree growth in central European forest stands

scientific article published in 2016

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

article

Gains to species diversity in organically farmed fields are not propagated at the farm level.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Genetic diversity of two tropical tree species of the Dipterocarpaceae following logging and restoration in Borneo: high genetic diversity in plots with high species diversity

article

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

scientific article published in 2015

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

scientific article

Growth rates and relative change in non-structural carbohydrates of dipterocarp seedlings in response to light acclimation

scientific article published in 2016

HOW DO DIFFERENT MEASURES OF FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY PERFORM?

article

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

scientific article

How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists

article

Impacts of logging on density-dependent predation of dipterocarp seeds in a South East Asian rainforest

scientific article

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

scientific article

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

scientific article

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

scientific article published in Science

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

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Ingestion by an endemic frugivore enhances seed germination of endemic plant species but decreases seedling survival of exotics

article

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

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

article

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

scientific 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

Maintaining ecosystem properties after loss of ash in Great Britain

scientific article published in 2018

Modelling the growth of parasitic plants

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

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

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

scientific article

Not even wrong: Comment by Loreau and Hector

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Overyielding and stable species coexistence

scientific article published in January 2006

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

scientific article published in 2002

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

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

scientific article

Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation

scientific article

Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Positive effects of tree diversity on tropical forest restoration in a field-scale experiment

scientific article published on 15 September 2023

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

scientific article

Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Removing subordinate species in a biodiversity experiment to mimic observational field studies

scientific article published on 30 April 2022

Resistance of tropical seedlings to drought is mediated by neighbourhood diversity

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Seed size variability: from carob to carats

scientific article

Seeing the fruit for the trees in Borneo

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events

scientific article published on 27 November 2024

Spatio-temporal water uptake patterns of tree saplings are not altered by interspecific interaction in the early stage of a subtropical forest

scientific article published in 2016

Strong positive biodiversity-productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment

Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments

Testing the importance of a common ectomycorrhizal network for dipterocarp seedling growth and survival in tropical forests of Borneo

scientific article published in 2016

The Functioning of European Grassland Ecosystems: Potential Benefits of Biodiversity to Agriculture

The Sabah Biodiversity Experiment: a long-term test of the role of tree diversity in restoring tropical forest structure and functioning

scientific article published on November 27, 2011

The analysis of biodiversity experiments: from pattern toward mechanism

article

The future of South East Asian rainforests in a changing landscape and climate

scientific article published on November 27, 2011

The importance of competition for light depends on productivity and disturbance

article

The influence of variable rainfall frequency on germination and early growth of shade-tolerant dipterocarp seedlings in borneo.

scientific article

The response of plants, carabid beetles and birds to 30 years of native reforestation in the Scottish Highlands

scientific article published in 2021

The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests

scientific article published on 14 November 2022

The value of biodiversity experiments

scientific article published in 2004

The value of biodiversity for the functioning of tropical forests: insurance effects during the first decade of the Sabah biodiversity experiment

scientific article

The £15 billion cost of ash dieback in Britain

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments

scientific article published on 21 February 2022

Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

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

scientific article published in December 2016