Our current, empirical understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem
function is based on two information sources. First, controlled experiments which show …

Widespread evidence shows that local species richness (α-diversity) loss hampers the
biomass production and stability of ecosystems. β-Diversity, namely the variation of species …

Global change drivers, such as anthropogenic nutrient inputs, are increasing globally.
Nutrient deposition simultaneously alters plant biodiversity, species composition and …

Ecological restoration is essential for maintaining biodiversity in the face of dynamic, global
changes in climate, human land use, and disturbance regimes. Effective restoration requires …

Global change is impacting plant community composition, but the mechanisms underlying
these changes are unclear. Using a dataset of 58 global change experiments, we tested the …

Land‐use intensification has caused dramatic declines in grassland biodiversity, and in
Europe this decline has not yet been halted. Therefore, a major challenge in ecological …

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 …

Human impacts have led to dramatic biodiversity change which can be highly scale‐
dependent across space and time. A primary means to manage these changes is via …

Despite evidence from grasslands experiments suggesting that plant species loss reduces
biomass production, the strength of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in …

Globally, we face a dramatic biodiversity loss in agricultural systems as well as severe
ecosystem degradation. In grasslands, higher biodiversity in terms of plant diversity was …