Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural
ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially …

The study of natural ecosystems and experiments using mixtures of plant species
demonstrates that both species and genetic diversity generally promote ecosystem …

Forest restoration increases global forest area and ecosystem services such as primary
productivity and carbon storage. How tree species functional composition impacts the …

Plant diversity strongly influences ecosystem functions and services, such as soil carbon
storage. However, the mechanisms underlying the positive plant diversity effects on soil …

In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

Plant diversity loss impairs ecosystem functioning, including important effects on soil. Most
studies that have explored plant diversity effects belowground, however, have largely …

Biodiversity ensures ecosystem functioning and provisioning of ecosystem services, but it
remains unclear how biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships depend on the …

Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has
prompted biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most …

Agricultural systems are nitrogen (N) deficient throughout the world and N is the most
important nutrient in realizing the maximum potential of the crop and sustainability of the …

Soil microbes provide multiple ecosystem functions such as nutrient cycling, decomposition
and climate regulation. However, we lack a quantitative understanding of the relative …