Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

By J. Grace, T. M. Anderson, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, P. Adler, W. Stanley Harpole, Y. Hautier, H. Hillebrand, E. Lind, M. Pärtel and 16 more. Nature, 2016

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

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Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “Addressing this issue means testing results found in biodiversity experiments in the real world of natural or managed ecosystems, and searching for the importance of the mechanisms identified in biodiversity experiments (Grace et al. 2016).”
Structural diversity as a predictor of ecosystem function (2019, background): “Indeed, plant species richness and phylogenetic diversity have been linked to ecosystem functions of productivity (Tillman et al 1997, Grace et al 2016), resistance to invasion (Iannone et al 2016), and nutrient cycling (Gamfeldt et al 2013, Ratcliffe et al 2017).”
Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning (2019, background): “Opposing direct and indirect effects often led to no overall impact of Prosopis , such as for mosquitoes, demonstrating that bivariate correlations cannot adequately describe complex ecological relations (Grace et al., 2016).”
Linkage between tree species richness and soil microbial diversity improves phosphorus bioavailability (2019, background): “Plant biodiversity enhances ecosystem functions, particularly productivity (Duffy, Godwin, & Cardinale, 2017; Grace et al., 2016).”
Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems (2016, methodology): “, Lawton 1996), and ecologists have to be careful when relating the findings in experiments to observations in real world communities (Grace et al. 2016).”
Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage (2018, background): “Positive diversity-productivity relationships have also been reported by recent broad-scale studies in forests (16) and grasslands (15, 30).”
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): “For example, disturbance intensities have a stronger effect on the relationships between species diversity and aboveground biomass across different biomes (Grace et al. 2016; Yeboah and Chen 2016; Sanaei et al. 2018).”
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests (2016, background): “Fortunately, substantial progress has been made to tease the BPR causal relationship from other potentially confounding environmental variables (14, 37, 38), and this study made considerable efforts to account for these otherwise potentially confounding environmental covariates in assessing likely”
Synthesizing multiple data types for biological conservation using integrated population models (2018, background): “The combined analysis of all available information allows for an understanding of processes underlying ecological and demographic responses to environmental variability (Brown and Collopy, 2013; Grace et al., 2016; Fletcher et al., 2016).”
Positive species diversity and above‐ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees (2017, methodology): “The total effects, combining the direct and indirect standardized effects (Grace & Bollen 2005; Grace et al. 2016), of a given exogenous variable on above-ground biomass were also calculated to enhance the interpretation of our SEM results.”
Parameterization of biodiversity–productivity relationship and its scale dependency using georeferenced tree‐level data (2019, result): “…2018; Loreau et al., 2001; Reich et al., 2012), a consensus (Cardinale et al., 2012) has been reached: a majority of BPR is positive concave-down, that is a degressively increasing curve (Figure 1), despite that other patterns have also been observed (e.g. Chen & Klinka, 2003; Grace et al., 2016).”
Linking epigenetics and biological conservation: Towards a conservation epigenetics perspective (2019, neutral): “Arguably, the strongest demonstration of a positive link between biodiversity and ecosystem services is that of a high plant species diversity in a given area being associated with high plant productivity in this area (Grace et al., 2016).”