Diversity and Productivity in a Long-Term Grassland Experiment

By David Tilman, Peter B. Reich, J. M H Knops, D. Wedin, T. Mielke, Clarence Lehman. Science, 2001

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

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Plant species richness drives the density and diversity of Collembola in temperate grassland (2011, background): “However, most of these experiments focused on community- and ecosystem-level consequences of biodiversity decline, in particular on aboveground arthropods and a number of authors requested the investigation of long-term effects on decomposers (Tilman et al., 2001; Hedlund et al., 2003; Viketoft et a”
An introduction to biodiversity concepts for environmental economists (2004, background): “Recently, this literature has focused on a series of manipulative experiments on mesocosm plant communities (Hector et al., 1999; Tilman et al., 2001 ).”
Effects of elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, and decreased species diversity on foliar fungal plant disease (2003, background): “As well as increasing pathogen load, decreased diversity commonly decreases root production, root biomass, and soil respiration (Hector et al., 1999; Craine et al., 2001; Reich et al., 2001a; Tilman et al., 2001; Tilman et al., 2002).”
Restoration of Prairie Community Structure and Ecosystem Function in an Abandoned Hayfield: A Sowing Experiment (2007, background): “Processes that regulate succession or constrain the composition and diversity of a community should also have important consequences for ecosystem function (Odum 1969; Hobbie 1992; Chapin et al. 1997; Knops and Tilman 2000; Tilman et al. 2001).”
Agriculture and biodiversity conservation: opportunity knocks (2008, background): “Agricultural grassland systems have been particularly productive in this respect, providing insights into biodiversity and ecosystem function (Tilman et al. 2001; Tilman et al. 2006), community assembly (Fukami et al. 2005), and a mechanistic understanding of the impact of management on…”
Overyielding among plant functional groups in a long‐term experiment (2003, background): “…effect on productivity, it must lead to greater absolute production in mixture, which requires transitive overyielding (Tilman et al. 1997; Fridley 2001) – a phenomenon that is infrequently observed (Trenbath 1974; Jolliffe 1997; Hector et al. 2002; Fridley 2003; but see Tilman et al. 2001).”
Partitioning the effects of algal species identity and richness on benthic marine primary production (2006, background): “However, earlier work, generally in nutrient poor terrestrial grasslands, indicated that plant and functional group richness did have ecologically significant effects on primary production (Hooper and Vitousek 1997, Tilman et al. 2001).”
The plant traits that drive ecosystems: Evidence from three continents (2004, background): “2d and 3a), often separated as different functional types in ecosystem studies (Hooper & Vitousek 1997; Hector et al. 1999; Lepš et al. 2001; Spehn et al. 2000; Tilman et al. 2001).”
Effects of species diversity on the primary productivity of ecosystems: extending our spatial and temporal scales of inference (2004, methodology): “The production of biomass in a patch is then measured through time as a proxy for primary production (Hector et al. 1999, Tilman et al. 2001).”
Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change. (2007, positive): “Although larger bees can access resources further from their nests, such bees also have higher resource demands (Cresswell et al. 2000), which could exclude larger species from areas with limited resources, as has been observed in some systems (e.g. intensive agricultural areas, Larsen et al. 2005).”
EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE (2005, background): “For example, in Minnesota grasslands, resistance to loss of plant productivity to drought increased with increasing plant species richness (Tilman and Downing 1994).”
On the statistical significance of functional diversity effects (2004, background): “Another mechanism is when changes in biodiversity alter the extent of resource use complementarity within an assemblage (Hooper 1998; Loreau 1998a; Diaz & Cabido 2001; Tilman et al . 2001; Hector et al . 2002).”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: reconciling the results of experimental and observational studies (2007, result): “…at all sites for 3 years (but for up to eight at some) patterns were generally weakest in the first year and strengthened or maintained thereafter (Pfisterer et al. 2004; Spehn et al. 2005), as were those from comparable studies (Tilman et al. 2001; Hooper & Dukes 2004; Van Ruijven & Fig.”