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Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems.

  • Guerrero-Ramírez NR German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 04103, Germany. kirana1015@gmail.com.
  • Craven D German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 04103, Germany.
  • Reich PB Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
  • Ewel JJ Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
  • Isbell F Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
  • Koricheva J School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.
  • Parrotta JA United States Forest Service, Washington, DC, 20250-1120, USA.
  • Auge H German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 04103, Germany.
  • Erickson HE Consulting Research Ecology, Portland, OR, 97212, USA.
  • Forrester DI Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, CH-8903, Switzerland.
  • Hector A Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK.
  • Joshi J Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, 14469, Germany.
  • Montagnini F School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
  • Palmborg C Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 90183, Sweden.
  • Piotto D Centro de Formação em Ciências Agroflorestais, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Itabuna-BA, 45613-204, Brazil.
  • Potvin C Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, H3A-1B1, Canada.
  • Roscher C German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 04103, Germany.
  • van Ruijven J Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • Tilman D Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
  • Wilsey B Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA.
  • Eisenhauer N German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 04103, Germany.
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  • 2017-10-04
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  • Nature ecology & evolution. - 2017
English The effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning generally increase over time, but the underlying processes remain unclear. Using 26 long-term grassland and forest experimental ecosystems, we demonstrate that biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships strengthen mainly by greater increases in functioning in high-diversity communities in grasslands and forests. In grasslands, biodiversity effects also strengthen due to decreases in functioning in low-diversity communities. Contrasting trends across grasslands are associated with differences in soil characteristics.
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