Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns?

By Lin Jiang, S. Wan, Linghao Li. 2009

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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Citations in the corpus

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests (2011, result): “B-EF research in natural systems has so far produced conflicting results (Jiang et al., 2009), some studies even reporting negative relationships (e.g. Thompson et al., 2005).”
Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “However, these two mechanisms tend to be much less important in natural communities where abundant species contribute most to community productivity but rarely experience extinction (Jiang et al., 2009; Wardle, 2016).”
Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale (2014, result): “However, meta-analyses of the biodiversity–ecosystem function (B-EF) relationship of natural systems have produced conflicting results (Jiang et al., 2009).”
Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, background): “In fertilized communities, researchers have often failed to explain the relationship between declining species diversity and increased biomass (Hooper et al., 2005; Jiang et al., 2009).”
Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service. (2015, background): “This makes it more likely that speciesrelated effects will be detected, both because variation due to abundance is controlled, and because evenness maximizes complementarity among species, which is a main mechanism for increasing function with increasing richness (Jiang et al. 2009; Crowder et al. 2”