Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms.

By Michel Loreau, Claire de Mazancourt. Ecology Letters, 2013

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

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Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies (2015, background): “However, when more than two species are present in an 256 assemblage, it is now known that covariance is an inappropriate measure of species 257 synchrony because the covariance depends on both the number of species and the 258 synchrony among them (Loreau & de Mazancourt 2008, 2013).”
Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris–Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe (2017, positive): “However, species interactions can also trigger species asynchrony by compensatory dynamics between species (Tilman, Lehman & Bristow 1998; Morin et al. 2014), which might result in less variation at community level (Loreau & de Mazancourt 2013).”
Life in the salinity gradient: Discovering mechanisms behind a new biodiversity pattern (2013, background): “…indicated by a number of original studies, and identified mechanisms behind those linkages include complementary resource use, positive interactions, and increased selection of highly performing species at high diversity (Worm et al., 2006; Loreau and de Mazancourt, 2013, and references therein).”
Specialized metabolic functions of keystone taxa sustain soil microbiome stability (2021, background): “The stability of a microbiome has been attributed principally to species diversity since a general consensus is that biodiversity imparts positive effects on microbiome stability [12].”
Species asynchrony and response diversity determine multifunctional stability of natural grasslands (2019, background): “A number of theories have been developed to explain how biodiversity stabilizes ecosystems (i.e. which mechanisms are responsible; Tilman, 1999; Cottingham, Brown, & Lennon, 2001; Loreau & de Mazancourt, 2008, 2013).”
Complexity and stability of ecological networks: a review of the theory (2018, background): “2005; Kondoh 2005; Loreau and De Mazancourt 2013).”