Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

By Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, F. Isbell, K. Mueller, S. Hobbie, D. Flynn, N. Eisenhauer. Science, 2012

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

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Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology. (2015, background): “Several long-term biodiversity grassland experiments have shown that the scale of positive diversity–productivity effects can increase over time (Cardinale et al., 2007; Reich et al., 2012).”
Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, background): “Because biodiversity effects become more pronounced with time in grassland experiments (Marquard et al. 2009b; Reich et al. 2012), we may expect even stronger effects with trees.”
Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments (2018, background): “It has been documented in grassland diversity experiments, but not yet in tree diversity experiments, that BEF relationships change over time (Reich et al., 2012; Thakur et al., 2015).”
Species Richness, Forest Structure, and Functional Diversity During Succession in the New Guinea Lowlands (2014, background): “These results are significant as communities with high functional diversity are more likely to contain functional redundancy and complementarity (Reich et al. 2012) and may therefore confer resilience in the face of climate change or other large-scale environmental perturbations.”
The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline: An integrated assessment (2016, neutral): “As the genetic material supporting agriculture declines, pests and pathogens become more likely to adapt to crops and proliferate, increasing crop losses to biological hazards (Cardinale, 2012; Reich et al., 2012).”
The role of complementarity and selection effects in P acquisition of intercropping systems (2017, result): “In contrast to the common pattern in grassland experiments, in which CE increased with time (Cardinale et al. 2007; Fargione et al. 2007; Reich et al. 2012), we found that, on average, CE decreased through time in our intercropping systems.”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “The Jena Experiment is now at the point where it enters the long-term time scale compared with other grassland experiments (currently only experimental plots in Cedar Creek, Minnesota, have longer time scales; Reich et al. 2012).”
A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity-productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands (2013, methodology): “…of particularly productive species 66 may explain long-term positive plant diversity effects on productivity (Cardinale et al., 2007, 67 2011; Reich et al., 2012) 68 So far, most studies of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships have focused on 69 species richness as predictor…”
Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3‐year continental‐scale field experiment (2013, background): “Indeed, if such rates of switching continue after >3 years, then the relative benefit of mixtures would increase when compared against the monoculture with the best mean yield over the time period (see also Cardinale et al. 2007; Reich et al. 2012).”
Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities (2020, background): “In addition, several long-term studies showed that with time, an increasing fraction of diverse communities outperforms even the most productive monoculture, a phenomenon known as transgressive overyielding (de Kroon et al., 2012; Marquard et al., 2009; Reich et al., 2012; Tilman et al., 2014).”
Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity (2013, methodology): “See previous publications for additional information (5, 6, 13, 29).”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “While theme number I has received much attention (Cardinale et al., 2006; Hooper et al., 2005; Maestre et al., 2012; Reich et al., 2012), a comprehensive and coherent analysis of themes II and III is missing.”