Darwin and the First Ecological Experiment

By Andy Hector, R. Hooper. Science, 2002

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Rare Species and Ecosystem Functioning (2005, background): “To assert that the whole of biological diversity should be conserved to maintain ecosystem properties, one must be able to demonstrate that less common species also make significant contributions.”
Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta‐analysis (2012, background): “…with Darwin’s original idea (1859) that the presence of a ‘divergence of character’, or variations in life-history traits among species, is essential for reduced interspecific competition as a result of differentiated demands for resources and, in turn, improves productivity (Hector & Hooper 2002).”
Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding (2008, background): “…150 years ago, Darwin and Wallace (1858) summarized the results of the first biodiversity experiments (Hector and Hooper 2002) with the following statement: “We know that it has been experimentally shown that a plot of land will yield a greater weight…”