Stability of ecosystem properties in response to above‐ground functional group richness and composition

By David A. Wardle, Karen I. Bonner, G. Barker. 2000

170 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. J. Lepš
3. N. Mason
4. David A. Wardle
5. Owen L. Petchey
6. R. Bardgett
7. Shahid Naeem
8. J. Wright

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. J. Lepš
3. N. Mason
4. David A. Wardle
5. Francesco de Bello
6. Owen L. Petchey
7. R. Bardgett
8. Yongfei Bai

In Plant Science

1. J. Emmett Duffy
2. David A. Wardle
3. Shahid Naeem
4. J. Lepš
5. R. Bardgett
6. Owen L. Petchey
7. J. Wilson
8. Richard J. Norby

Citations in the corpus

• On the statistical significance of functional diversity effects (2004, background): “The dominant measure of functional diversity is the number of functional groups in an assemblage (Hooper & Vitousek 1997; Tilman et al . 1997; Hector et al . 1999; Naeem et al . 1999; Wardle, Bonner & Barker 2000; Naeem 2002).”
• Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland (2004, background): “Such compensatory effects have been reported for both plant and animal communitie”
• Vegetation diversity, growth, quality and decomposition in managed grasslands (2004, background): “Research has focused on understanding the relationships between diversity and ecosystem stability (Tilman, 1996; Wardle et al., 2000), resistance to invasion of exotics (Crawley et al.”
• Biodiversity, productivity and stability in real food webs (2003, background): “One microcosm study of a simple plant-based food web documented strong effects of composition, but weak effects of diversity on community stability [ 29 ].”
• Complexity, system integration, and susceptibility to change: Biodiversity connection (2005, background): “Revived research into diversity-stability (e.g., McCann, 2000; Kolasa and Li, 2003) and ecosystem function-stability relationships (e.g., Loreau et al., 2001; Grime, 1997; Wardle et al., 2000 ) offer a case in point.”
• Diversity‐dependent productivity in semi‐natural grasslands following climate perturbations (2005, result): “To account for such hidden treatments in our study, we incorporated soil variables and community composition into our data analysis as covariables (Tables 2 and 3). Our results are consistent with previous studies that have determined the importance of species composition for the stability of ecosys”
• Climate change effects on plant biomass alter dominance patterns and community evenness in an experimental old‐field ecosystem (2010, background): “…ecosystems as species differ in their resource dynamics and their relationships with above- and belowground organisms (e.g., Lashof et al., 1997; Wardle et al., 2000; Eviner & Chapin, 2003); in our study, climate-induced alteration of Lespedeza dominance should have affected ecosystem nutrient…”