Productive grasslands in temperate regions have relied strongly on low plant diversity with
high management intensity and fertiliser inputs. Increasing plant diversity can provide high …

Determining the factors that affect community stability is crucial to understanding the
maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the face of global warming. We …

Species‐rich communities exhibit higher levels of ecosystem functioning compared with
species‐poor ones, and this positive relationship strengthens over time. One proposed …

Relationships between plant biodiversity and productivity are highly variable across studies
in managed grasslands, partly because of the challenge of accounting for confounding's and …

Biodiversity experiments revealed that plant diversity loss can decrease ecosystem functions
across trophic levels. To address why such biodiversity-function relationships strengthen …

Rates of species colonisation and extirpation are increasing in plant communities world‐
wide. Colonisation could potentially help compensate for, or compound, resident diversity …

Questions Cover and biomass serve as common measures of species abundance in plant
ecology. However, the underlying relationship between these two measures and its …

Experimental evidence shows that grassland plant diversity enhances ecosystem
functioning. Yet, the transfer of results from controlled biodiversity experiments to naturally …

Functional redundancy is increasingly being considered in ecological studies as a key
component of biodiversity, potentially associated with the ability of ecosystems to buffer …

A growing number of studies have demonstrated that biodiversity is a strong and positive
predictor of ecosystem temporal stability by simultaneously affecting multiple underlying …