Establishment limitation reduces species recruitment and species richness as soil resources rise

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Biodiversity, ecosystem function and plant traits in mature and immature plant communities (2005, background): “For example, over a wide range of moderate-to-high biomass values, there is a well known negative relationship between biomass and species richness, driven by increasing competitive exclusion at higher productivity (Grime 1973; Grace 1999; Stevens et al. 2004).”
Invasion impacts diversity through altered community dynamics (2005, background): “Light and soil resource availability (Tilman 1993; Burke & Grime 1996; Knops et al. 1999; Davis et al. 2000; Cahill 2003; Stevens et al. 2004) have been shown to regulate colonization success in many systems.”
Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities (2016, background): “This difference is important because empirical studies show that a decrease in species richness at high levels of productivity is usually caused by competitive mortality rather than by dispersal limitations (e.g. Foster 2001; Stevens et al. 2004; but see Partel & Zobel 2007 for a different view).”
Factors and processes affecting plant biodiversity in permanent grasslands. A review (2011, unknown): “Thus, we do not consider nitrogen supply through atmospheric deposition, which can reach 5 to 35 kg ha−1 year−1 (Stevens et al. 2004).”