How important are species richness, species evenness and interspecific differences to productivity? A mathematical model

By I. Nijs, J. Roy. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Reductions in grassland species evenness increase dicot seedling invasion and spittle bug infestation (2002, unknown): “In the growing body of species richness ⁄ ecosystem functioning literature, there has been relatively little emphasis on higher trophic levels (e.g. Naeem et al. 1994; Naeem & Li 1998; Van der Heijden et al. 1998; Mulder et al. 1999; Koricheva et al. 2000; Norberg 2000).”
Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. (2006, methodology): “This idea is supported by theoretical models and empirical evidence that evenness of abundances influences ecosystem level processes independently of species richness (Nijs & Roy 2000; Polley et al. 2003; Dangles & Malmqvist 2004).”
Dominant species identity regulates invasibility of old‐field plant communities (2006, background): “Also, some recent theory predicts that community evenness has an important role in ecosystem functioning ( Nijs and Roy 2000 ) and so would be expected to influence invasion.”
Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability (2012, background): “The diversity and relative abundances of species should be important only when species differ in niche requirements or their functional contribution to the ecosystem (Nijs and Roy 2000, Mouillot et al. 2005).”
Variability in population and community biomass in a grassland community affected by environmental productivity and diversity (2004, background): “Similarly, Wilsey and Potvin (2000) and Roy and Nijs (2000) stress the importance of evenness for ecosystem functioning.”
Do species evenness and plant density influence the magnitude of selection and complementarity effects in annual plant species mixtures (2003, background): “The potential importance of species evenness and of other aspects of plant communities for productivity and related ecosystem properties has largely been neglected (but see Wilsey & Potvin 2000; Nijs & Roy 2000; Wilsey & Polley 2002).”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances (2000, background): “Tilman et al. (1997b) proposed three simple models to explain the asymptotic relationship between biomass production and initial species diversity that was observed in some experiments with plant communities (Naeem et al.”
Species evenness and productivity in experimental plant communities (2004, background): “Our data did not support the model of Nijs and Roy (2000), which suggested that the relationship between evenness and biomass should depend on whether the dominant species were those with average productivity (in which case a positive relationship was expected) or with high productivity (in which…”
Separating the chance effect from other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities (2001, unknown): “Some species (the drivers) play an important role in ecosystem function, whilst the absence of others (the passengers) does not affect ecosystem function at all, at least in the short term and small spatial scale (Nijs and Roy 2000).”
Climate change effects on plant biomass alter dominance patterns and community evenness in an experimental old‐field ecosystem (2010, background): “Climatic change could also increase community productivity, diversity (e.g., Grime, 1973; Hooper, 1998), and evenness (Nijs & Roy, 2000; Wilsey & Potvin, 2000) via complementary resource use among coexisting species.”
Species richness, environmental fluctuations, and temporal change in total community biomass (2002, background): “We limited our study to competitive communities because theory about effects of species richness in competitive communities (Tilman et al. 1997, Ives et al. 1999, Yachi and Loreau 1999, Hughes and Roughgarden 2000, Lehman and Tilman 2000, Nijs and Roy 2000 ) is arguably better developed than theory”
Effects of plant species richness and evenness on soil microbial community diversity and function (2010, background): “Positive relationships between evenness and a variety of measures of ecosystem function arising from niche complementarity are frequently documented (Hillebrand et al. 2008; Hooper et al. 2005; Jon 2004; Mattingly et al. 2007; Nijs and Roy 2000).”
Herbivore-mediated linkages between aboveground and belowground communities (2003, background): “…the same types of mechanisms that have been proposed for ecosystem effects of plant diversity, in which greater resource partitioning among species and greater difference between species in key functional attributes maximizes the net effect of diversity (Nijs and Roy 2000, Díaz and Cadibo 2001).”