Do experiments exploring plant diversity – ecosystem functioning relationships inform how biodiversity loss impacts natural ecosystems?

By David A. Wardle. 2016

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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Citations in the corpus

Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems (2016, background): “Some recent papers, however, have refueled this debate by highlighting that no consistent loss of biodiversity has been found at the local scale in real world ecosystems (Vellend et al. 2013;Wardle 2016).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “Today, it is the general consensus that biodiversity has manifold effects on processes at the ecosystem level, and that this conclusion holds not only for biodiversity experiments, but also for real-world ecosystems (but see Eisenhauer et al. 2016; Wardle 2016).”
Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an aboveground–belowground context (2017, background): “The interaction between plants and aboveground and belowground consumers is critical for driving ecosystem functioning both aboveground and belowground (Hooper et al. 2000; Wardle 2002; Eisenhauer 2012).”
Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “…has shown that declining biodiversity may erode ecosystem functions, the extent to which this finding, based largely on experimentally assembled communities, can apply to natural communities under environmental stressors remains controversial (Duffy, Godwin, & Cardinale, 2017; Wardle, 2016).”