The species richness–productivity controversy

By Barbara C. Schmid. 2002

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

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DIVERSITY–PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS IN STREAMS VARY AS A FUNCTION OF THE NATURAL DISTURBANCE REGIME (2005, background): “Amid current efforts to combine these perspectives into a more synthetic understanding of causality between diversity and productivity (e.g., Grime 1998, Fridley 2002, Schmid 2002), certain commonalities have emerged.”
Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences (2014, background): “Observational studies in natural forests also suffer from strong methodological limitations, as differences in disturbance regime, stand structure, and environmental factors are likely to confound diversity effects in crosssite comparisons (Loreau 1998, Schmid 2002, Vilà et al. 2007).”
Declining plant diversity: empty niches or functional shifts? (2002, background): “However, it has been suggested (Schmid 2002) that, as farmers reduce fertilizer inputs to protect the environment and to cut costs, grazing land may be limited in its productivity because plant species extinctions prevent a return to the levels of plant diversity that formerly characterized many…”
EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE (2005, background): “Schläpfer, F., and J. D. Erikson.”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: insights from aquatic systems (2004, background): “Even the use of simple microcosms, however, may entail problems with the analysis of data (Schmid et al. 2002).”
Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (2009, methodology): “Thus contrary to the interpretation that the observed positive diversity effect on productivity in diversity-manipulation experiments represents the ‘true’ biodiversity effect (Loreau et al. 2001; Schmid 2002; Hector et al. 2007), here we view it as a possibly transient effect associated with the re”
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services (2005, background): “Here again, if taken uncritically, results from synthetic assemblages may lead to misleading recommendations to land managers (see also Fridley 2001; Schmid 2002; Hodgson et al. 2005).”
Functional role of forest diversity: Pros and cons of synthetic stands and across-site comparisons in established forests (2009, background): “Among the consequences observed were higher average rates of productivity or nutrient retention, a more stable supply of ecosystem goods and services over time, and a reduced susceptibility to invasion by exotic species in species-rich compared to species-poor communities (Balvanera et al., 2006; Ho”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: reconciling the results of experimental and observational studies (2007, methodology): “…propose that the apparent conflict in the results of biodiversity experiments and observational biodiversity studies arises because they use different approaches (experimental vs correlational) to address different questions (withinvs across-habitat relationships) (Loreau et al. 2001; Schmid 2002).”
Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years (2008, background): “This difference between observational and experimental studies can be explained by the different direction of causality in the two relationships (Schmid 2002; Schmid & Hector 2004).”
Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland (2008, background): “Species richness has been a core focus of most early studies examining the interaction between biodiversity and ecosystem processes, with much empirical research and mechanistic theory devoted to understanding how the number of species in a community may influence ecosystem processes (Schmid 2002; H”
Direct and productivity‐mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness (2012, background): “The strong indirect, and additional weak direct, effect of fertilization on species richness underlines the importance of fertilization for affecting species richness through increases in productivity (Grime 1973; Silvertown 1980; Gough et al. 2000; Loreau 2000; Rajaniemi 2002; Schmid 2002; Stevens ”