Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

By David Tilman, Peter B. Reich, J. M H Knops. Nature, 2006

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Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems (2009, background): “2007), higher stability of forage yield or vegetation composition (Tilman et al., 2006; Weigelt et al., 2008) and lower invasibility by weeds (Symstad, 2000; Roscher et al., 2009a, b).”
Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding (2008, background): “Indeed, monoculture yields usually have larger temporal coefficients of variation than mixture yields (Loreau et al. 2001, Pfisterer et al. 2004, Tilman et al. 2006, van Ruijven and Berendse 2007), which means that they also have larger standard deviations if they reach the same yield (as suggested…”
Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity (2009, methodology): “The long-term average biomass was used because inter-annual variation was due largely to subsampling variance and regional climatic variation [30, 31 ].”
Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands (2010, background): “Such losses in plant richness, in turn, can have marked impacts on ecosystem productivity (Tilman et al., 1996; Hector et al., 1999) and stability (Tilman & Downing, 1994; Pfisterer & Schmid, 2002; Bai et al., 2004; Tilman et al., 2006).”
Decomposition and nutrient dynamics in mixed litter of Mediterranean species (2010, methodology): “This parameter has been often used as a measure of stability (McCann 2000); for instance, primary productivity variability along gradients of plant species richness has typically been assessed in this way (Tilman et al. 2006).”
The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities (2009, background): “Tilman et al. (2006) provide clearer evidence that negative correlations in species fluctuations contribute to community stability across 207 Minnesota grassland plots in which diversity was manipulated experimentally.”