Biodiversity, ecosystem function and plant traits in mature and immature plant communities

By K. Thompson, A. Askew, J. P. Grime, N. Dunnett, A. Willis. 2005

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

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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: reconciling the results of experimental and observational studies (2007, methodology): “Here we address some recent criticisms of the BIODEPTH project (Thompson et al. 2005) and show that:”
Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (2009, background): “Therefore, by concentrating its effect in mature communities, competitive exclusion may have the potential to alter diversityproductivity patterns from those observed in short-term diversity-manipulation experiments in which it plays a relatively minor role (see also Thompson et al. 2005).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions (2017, background): “In fact, short-term plant biodiversity experiments have been criticised because the plant communities are ‘immature’ shortly after sowing (Thompson et al. 2005), and such claims can only be ruled out if experiments are run for a longer time.”
Prospects for fen meadow restoration on severely degraded fens (2010, background): “This selection acts at the level of plant trait combinations (Lavorel et al., 1997; Grime, 2002; Thompson et al., 2005).”
Long‐term enhancement of agricultural production by restoration of biodiversity (2006, background): “Thompson et al. (2005) suggest that over time the species richness of a community will be determined by the soil fertility: so productivity, determined by soil fertility, will affect diversity rather than vice verse.”
A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity-productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands (2013, background): “Results from short-term biodiversity experiments have been criticized for the supposed transience of their results (Thompson et al., 2005).”
Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands (2008, background): “The set-up of this experiment was motivated by the criticism that positive effects of biodiversity found in previous experiments were caused by a comparison of species mixtures with monocultures of species that are not able to grow as monospecific plant stands (Huston and McBride, 2002; Thompson et ”
Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years (2008, methodology): “The experimental set-up was determined by criticism directed towards previous experiments that the positive effects of species richness on biomass production were attributable to the greater chance of both highly competitive species and N 2 fixing species being included in more diverse mixtures (Hus”
An experimental framework to identify community functional components driving ecosystem processes and services delivery (2013, methodology): “…ecosystem processes remains however debatable since only few studies evaluated both aspects of plant community trait composition simultaneously (Thompson et al. 2005; Díaz et al. 2007; Mokany, Ash & Roxburgh 2008; Schumacher & Roscher 2009; Laughlin 2011; Lavorel et al. 2011; Mouillot et al.…”
The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests (2011, background): “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).”
Direct and productivity‐mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness (2012, background): “2005) and observational (Grime 1973; Al-Mufti et al. 1977; Thompson et al. 2005) studies usually show that species richness declines with increasing site productivity, at least in managed grassland (Adler et al.”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, methodology): “…biomass (AGBmass) was used as an estimate of ANPP (for discussion, see Scurlock et al. 2002), CWM_leaf area was positively related to AGBmass (Thompson et al. 2005; Mokany et al. 2008), while Garnier et al. (2004) found weak negative relationships between AGBmass and CWM_SLA and CWM_LDMC and…”
Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semi‐arid forest ecosystems (2013, methodology): “…of the effect of functional plant composition on ecosystem processes has been derived from experiments on highly simplified systems (Tilman et al. 1997; Thompson et al. 2005; Fornara & Tilman 2008; Steinbeiss et al. 2008; De Deyn et al. 2009; Pakeman, Eastwood & Scobie 2011; Roscher et al. 2012).”