More than the sum of its parts: microbiome biodiversity as a driver of plant growth and soil health

M Saleem, J Hu, A Jousset - Annual review of ecology, evolution …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Microorganisms drive several processes needed for robust plant growth and health.
Harnessing microbial functions is thus key to productive and sustainable food production …

The future of complementarity: disentangling causes from consequences

KE Barry, L Mommer, J van Ruijven, C Wirth… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
Evidence suggests that biodiversity supports ecosystem functioning. Yet, the mechanisms
driving this relationship remain unclear. Complementarity is one common explanation for …

[KİTAP][B] Multisystemic resilience: Adaptation and transformation in contexts of change

M Ungar - 2021 - books.google.com
" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

F Van der Plas, T Schröder-Georgi, A Weigelt… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Earth is home to over 350,000 vascular plant species that differ in their traits in innumerable
ways. A key challenge is to predict how natural or anthropogenically driven changes in the …

Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment

C Wagg, C Roscher, A Weigelt, A Vogel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Numerous studies have demonstrated that biodiversity drives ecosystem functioning, yet
how biodiversity loss alters ecosystems functioning and stability in the long-term lacks …

We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data

JG Hagan, B Vanschoenwinkel, L Gamfeldt - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Our current, empirical understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem
function is based on two information sources. First, controlled experiments which show …

Plant–soil feedbacks and temporal dynamics of plant diversity–productivity relationships

MP Thakur, WH van der Putten, RA Wilschut… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Plant–soil feedback (PSF) and diversity–productivity relationships are important research
fields to study drivers and consequences of changes in plant biodiversity. While studies …

Is the future of agriculture perennial? Imperatives and opportunities to reinvent agriculture by shifting from annual monocultures to perennial polycultures

TE Crews, W Carton, L Olsson - Global Sustainability, 2018 - cambridge.org
Non-technical summaryModern agriculture is associated with numerous environmental
predicaments, such as land degradation, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emission …

Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

A Schuldt, A Ebeling, M Kunz, M Staab… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans modify ecosystems and biodiversity worldwide, with negative consequences for
ecosystem functioning. Promoting plant diversity is increasingly suggested as a mitigation …

How soil biota drive ecosystem stability

G Yang, C Wagg, SD Veresoglou, S Hempel… - Trends in plant …, 2018 - cell.com
High biodiversity aboveground tends to increase the stability of ecosystem functioning when
faced with a changing environment. However, whether and how soil biota affect ecosystem …