Diversity-dependent Temporal Divergence of Ecosystem Functioning in Experimental Ecosystems

Overview

Journal Nat Ecol Evol

Publisher Springer Nature

Specialty Biology

Date 2017 Oct 4

PMID 28970481

Citations 26

Authors

Nathaly R Guerrero-Ramirez

Dylan Craven

Peter B Reich

John J Ewel

Forest Isbell

Julia Koricheva

John A Parrotta

Harald Auge

Heather E Erickson

David I Forrester

Andy Hector

Jasmin Joshi

Florencia Montagnini

Cecilia Palmborg

Daniel Piotto

Catherine Potvin

Christiane Roscher

Jasper van Ruijven

David Tilman

Brian Wilsey

Nico Eisenhauer

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Abstract

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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