Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

By F. Isbell, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, S. Hobbie, Stephen Polasky, Seth Binder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition (2015, background): “…larger than those observed in the two previous attempts to separate direct and indirect effects of global change on ecosystem functioning, both of which were experimental studies of effects of nitrogen enrichment on productivity or biogeochemical cycling (Manning et al. 2006; Isbell et al. 2013).”
Weeds for bees? A review (2015, background): “reducing N input (irreversibility) (Isbell et al. 2013).”
Rate-specific responses of prokaryotic diversity and structure to nitrogen deposition in the Leymus chinensis steppe (2014, background): “…in most terrestrial ecosystems (Vitousek et al., 2002), N deposition often has multiple effects, including changes in aboveground primary productivity, biodiversity, species composition, and ecosystem functioning (Galloway et al., 2003; Bai et al., 2010; Robson et al., 2010; Isbell et al., 2013).”
Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “However, few global change studies have explicitly considered both direct and indirect pathways (Díaz et al. 2007; Isbell et al. 2013).”
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, background): “Furthermore, nutrient-induced losses of plant species, including initially dominant plant species, impacted productivity twice as much per lost species as did random species losses in a nearby biodiversity experiment (Isbell et al. 2013).”
Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems (2016, background): “Similarly, Isbell et al. (2013) separated effects of N addition on plant biomass production from effects on plant diversity, as well as the effects of N addition-induced changes in plant diversity on biomass production, which had not been explicitly separated in an earlier, criticized study (Tilman…”
Nitrogen addition reduced ecosystem stability regardless of its impacts on plant diversity (2019, background): “…studies have found, for example, that N addition can lead to diminishing returns of ecosystem productivity partly because N addition drives plant species losses (Isbell et al., 2013), and that N addition can also decrease ecosystem stability by driving plant species losses (Hautier et al., 2015).”
Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning (2019, background): “Some studies have found large indirect effects of biodiversity (Allan et al., 2015), whereas others have shown smaller indirect effects of diversity (Isbell et al., 2013) or composition (Manning et al., 2006).”
Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above‐ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie (2014, background): “Many other studies have reported increases of annual species with N addition (i.e. Suding et al. 2005; Bai, Wu & Cabido 2010; Isbell et al. 2013).”