What do the biodiversity experiments tell us about consequences of plant species loss in the real world

By J. Lepš. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Microbial richness and composition independently drive soil multifunctionality (2017, background): “…in composition can act in synergy or opposition to effects of richness in natural (rather than randomly assembled experiments) systems, and thus, the role of different aspects of diversity (composition, richness, identity) remains unclear (Leps, 2004; Lepš et al., 2001; Wardle et al., 1999).”
Effects of nitrate load on submerged plant biomass and species richness: results of a mesocosm experiment (2008, background): “There are three main underlying reasons for reduction in species numbers in plant communities (Leps 2004): adversity of the environment; competitive exclusion; and absence of a species pool.”
Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long‐term natural experiment (2012, background): “However, such studies are recognized as having significant limitations for understanding the role of diversity on C storage in natural ecosystems, where species communities are assembled through successional processes and not at random (Leps 2004; Wardle et al. 2011).”
Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest (2011, background): “One of the criticisms of past biodiversity experiments was focused on the use of randomly drawn species combinations out of a constant species pool to establish a gradient of species richness (Lepš 2004).”
Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences (2014, background): “One burning issue in BEF research is to what extent diversity effects documented in experiments scale up to real ecosystems (Lepš 2004, Srivastava and Vellend 2005).”
Overyielding in experimental grassland communities - irrespective of species pool or spatial scale (2005, background): “Environmental conditions, species interactions and the available species pool all influence species diversity and ecosystem properties (Lepš 2004).”
Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real‐world ecosystems (2009, background): “These studies have generated continuing controversy (eg Huston 1997; Wardle et al. 2000; Leps 2004), leading some reviewers to conclude that the results of BEF experiments are too variable to draw general conclusions (Giller et al. 2004; Thompson and Starzomski 2007).”
A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships (2014, methodology): “Criticism on the artificially created plant communities of sown biodiversity experiments (Leps, 2004) led to alternative experimental approaches such as species removal experiments (e.g. Symstad & Tilman, 2001; Diaz, Symstad, Chapin, Wardle, & Huenneke, 2003; Urcelay, Diaz, Gurvich, Chapin, Cuevas,…”
Exploring the functional significance of forest diversity: A new long-term experiment with temperate tree species (BIOTREE) (2007, background): “The interpretation of results from such experiments, however, has been debated controversially concerning the role of keystone and dominant species or functional groups, experimental design, data analysis, and applicability to nonexperimental situations or to other ecosystems than grasslands or micr”
The diversity–biomass–productivity relationships in grassland management and restoration (2007, background): “Although seeding experiments have limitations such as random species extinction and sampling effects (Lepš, 2004), they offer valuable information regarding the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem processes (Schmid & Hector, 2004).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “Biodiversity experiments have been criticized for the continuous manipulation needed to maintain the designed species compositions, which may be seen as an undesirable disturbance or an unusual, time-consuming management practice (Wardle 2001; Lepš 2004).”
Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses (2012, background): “Current biodiversity experiments mostly start from random loss scenarios, whereas in reality, specific functional groups and traits often drop out first (Leps, 2004; Zavaleta & Hulvey, 2004; Kremen, 2005; Larsen et al., 2005).”
Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation? (2005, background): “Our review builds on many past perspectives on this topic (Hector et al. 2001, Hooper et al. 2005, Lawler et al. 2002, Lepš 2004, Schmid & Hector 2004, Schwartz et al. 2000, Srivastava 2002) and also attempts to integrate the assessment of conservation relevance more fully into a broad theoretical…”