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Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems

  • The effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning generally increase over time, but the underlying processes remain unclear. Using 26 long-term grassland and forest experimental ecosystems, we demonstrate that biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships strengthen mainly by greater increases in functioning in high-diversity communities in grasslands and forests. In grasslands, biodiversity effects also strengthen due to decreases in functioning in low-diversity communities. Contrasting trends across grasslands are associated with differences in soil characteristics.

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Author details:Nathaly Rokssana Guerrero-RamirezORCiDGND, Dylan CravenORCiD, Peter B. Reich, John J. Ewel, Forest IsbellORCiD, Julia Koricheva, John A. Parrotta, Harald AugeORCiDGND, Heather E. Erickson, David I. Forrester, Andy Hector, Jasmin Radha JoshiORCiDGND, Florencia Montagnini, Cecilia Palmborg, Daniel Piotto, Catherine Potvin, Christiane Roscher, Jasper van Ruijven, David Tilman, Brian Wilsey, Nico EisenhauerORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0325-1
ISSN:2397-334X
Pubmed ID:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28970481
Title of parent work (English):Nature ecology & evolution
Publisher:Nature Publ. Group
Place of publishing:London
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Date of first publication:2017/10/02
Publication year:2017
Release date:2021/02/09
Volume:1
Issue:11
Number of pages:4
First page:1639
Last Page:1642
Funding institution:German Research Foundation through Emmy Noether research group [Ei 862/2]; European Research Council starting grant [677232]; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig [FZT 118]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FOR 1451]; US National Science Foundation (NSF) Long-Term Ecological Research [DEB-9411972, DEB-0080382, DEB-0620652, DEB-1234162]; Biocomplexity Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles Program [DEB-0322057]; Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology Program [DEB-0716587, DEB-1242531]; Ecosystem Sciences Program (NSF) [DEB-1120064]; National Institute for Climatic Change Research [DE-FC02-06ER64158]
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
DDC classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Peer review:Referiert
Publishing method:Open Access / Green Open-Access
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