Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition

By Peter B. Reich, J. M H Knops, David Tilman, Joseph M. Craine, D. Ellsworth, M. Tjoelker, Tali D. Lee, D. Wedin, Shahid Naeem, Dan Bahauddin and 5 more. Nature, 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Soil Science

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Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “In fact, despite several notable exceptions (e.g. Reich et al., 2001), the fields of global change and BEF research have developed largely independent of each other, although they shared focus on anthropogenic changes in ecosystem functions.”
Parasites in the food web: linking amphibian malformations and aquatic eutrophication (2004, background): “Recent studies have shown how a variety of anthropogenic factors, including increases in temperature, carbon dioxide, acidity and nutrient deposition, can significantly alter the interactions, diversity and very structure of communities (Petchey et al. 1999; Reich et al. 2001; Zavaleta et al. 2003).”
What have we learned from 15 years of free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)? A meta-analytic review of the responses of photosynthesis, canopy properties and plant production to rising CO2. (2004, methodology): “The Swiss FACE experiment was a managed agricultural pasture (with 10–14 or 42–56 g N m−2 yr−1; Zanetti et al., 1996), and the BioCON experiment was a natural prairie grassland experiment with no nutrient input on some plots and 4 g N m−2 yr−1 on other plots (Reich et al., 2001).”
Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances (2018, background): “Understanding how the relative contributions of these two mechanisms change according to the context may inform about new strategies for the forest management and biodiversity conservation (Reich et al. 2001; Cavanaugh et al. 2014; Lin et al. 2016; Ratcliffe et al. 2016).”
Probiotic Pseudomonas communities enhance plant growth and nutrient assimilation via diversity-mediated ecosystem functioning (2017, unknown): “Biodiversity has consistently been shown to enhance the productivity and stability of ecosystems (Hautier et al., 2015; Hector et al., 1999; Reich et al., 2001).”
Interactive effects of diversity, nutrients and elevated CO2 on experimental plant communities (2002, background): “Recently, a grassland field experiment in Minnesota, USA, using free air CO2 enrichment, found that the enhanced biomass accumulation in response to elevated levels of CO2 or nitrogen, or their combination, is less in species-poor than in species-rich communities (Reich et al. 2001).”
Effects of elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, and decreased species diversity on foliar fungal plant disease (2003, methodology): “In monocultures of our experiment, foliar nitrogen concentration in C 4 grasses was lower than in all other functional groups at ambient nitrogen supply, and increased the most both proportionally and absolutely in response to nitrogen addition (Reich et al., 2001b).”